The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 was signed into law at the end of 2023. Among its various mandates were that the Department of Defense cultivate private 5G networks at its service branch bases and outposts. These bases total around 800 globally, representing a clear opportunity for telecommunications providers to offer th...
Venice Goodwine, chief information officer at the Department of the Air Force, is looking to expand the use of cloud services across the Air Force to include classified networks and applications in the tactical edge to address warfighters’ data needs, Federal News Network reported Thursday. Speaking at a recent Air Force-related event, Goodwin...
SAIC’s Hilary Hageman grew up in Southeast Asia and Africa and witnessed the political instability that threatened her family’s safety in many of the countries in which she lived. She quickly gained an appreciation for the safety provided by the U.S. military to Americans living overseas and drew inspiration from her Peace Corps-serving father a...
Project Convergence materialized in 2020 with a goal of connecting Army sensors, command and control nodes and shooters at the tactical level. While the initiative was originally created to tackle Army-specific problems, its reach has dramatically expanded over time. Now, Project Convergence serves as a key part of the Department of Defense’s Comb...
The board of directors of Aretum has promoted Rohit Gupta, most recently senior vice president and executive technologist at the government technology services contractor, to CEO. Bethesda, Maryland-based Aretum said Wednesday Gupta brings to the role over 25 years of leadership experience across information technology, finance, accounting, contract...
In order to effectively realize Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control — a.k.a. CJADC2, the U.S. Department of Defense’s sweeping data-sharing initiative — information coded in different ways has to be aligned and translated. Since the effort spans across all DOD components and service branches, the inputs “all talk a different langua...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Deloitte Consulting a potential five-year, $87.9 million contract to modernize, sustain and improve the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services training virtual environment. The Department of Defense said Tuesday Naval Information Warfare Systems Command received three offers for the command, control, communica...
Raytheon Vice President and Chief Information Officer Ken Wilcox has built his career on curiosity, embracing change and seizing opportunities, even if the challenge was uncomfortable. Wilcox came up through the ranks, having spent most of the last 25 years at RTX and various affiliated organizations. He started out as a software developer at Prat...
Mansour Yusuf, chief cloud/edge architect at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said artificial intelligence could help government agencies advance automation and intelligence-driven decision-making and improve performance and security when managing multicloud environments. AI “can run analytics against infrastructure and software to develop an u...
By Amy Hilbert, executive vice president of government solutions at Casepoint In an era where transparency and accountability are paramount, the Freedom of Information Act stands as a critical tool for citizens seeking access to government records. However, behind the ideal of openness lies a stark reality: the federal government is struggling to re...
