In a meeting last week at Enlightenment Capital’s Chevy Case, Maryland headquarters, Jason Rigoli, a partner at the firm, received his first Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO and award founder Jim Garrettson. The Wash100 Award is a yearly coronation of the finest executives shaping the government contracting sector. It commends leaders ...
When Jen Sovada realized she could make more of an impact on the outside of the military looking in, she retired from the U.S. Air Force. Now, her company, the fast-growing startup SandboxAQ, regularly does business with the USAF and Sovada still gets to support the mission, circumnavigating the oft-labyrinthine bureaucracy of the government. Sovada...
Like many government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection manages petabytes of data flowing through it every day. They perform an estimated 50 billion data exchanges and 10 billion transactions daily. This also means there are roughly 100 million cyber attack attempts per day on their network, accordin...
Artificial intelligence has presented the U.S. Department of Energy with an opportunity to revolutionize the way it carries out its mission. Ann Dunkin, chief information officer of the DOE, has identified the analysis of climate-focused technologies like solar panels as just one potential benefit. Though new AI technologies could be groundbreaking...
The Honorable Frank Kendall, secretary of the Air Force, accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the Pentagon. Vote for Secretary Kendall to win the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition at Wash100.com. There’s only ONE WEEK left to vote, so cast your votes today! Kendall won his fifth W...
Large language models are artificial intelligence tools that are trained on mass amounts of data and can understand and respond to user prompts. Current LLMs are known for their ability to generate text, but these models are now evolving to be able to create images and video. The ability of LLMs to break down huge...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential $187 million contract to continue helping the U.S. Space Force maintain and upgrade its space surveillance systems and command centers dedicated to providing space domain awareness for military and civilian users. The award exercises the option year five of the potential 10-year, $1.2 billion...
Modernization is a top priority for the Department of Defense, and many department-wide modernization initiatives are currently underway. Though these efforts have a broad reach across the organization, individual DOD components are supplementing them with tailored approaches to their own specific challenges. To address the unique demands of shifts ...
The U.S. Army has started soliciting information from stakeholders to help inform its acquisition approach for the planned Army Contracting Command Enterprise for Sourcing Services procurement program, also known as ACCESS. ACCESS will be the successor to the multiple-award Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
Information technology is a top priority for the Department of Defense, and the organization is currently working to update its software modernization strategy, according to DOD Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Leslie Beavers. The existing plan operates around three tenets: accelerating cloud adoption, establishing a software factory eco...
