In the challenging environment of space, “nuclear answers the mail on some serious operational problems,” according to Michael Smith, nuclear portfolio lead for operational energy-innovation within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. During a panel discussion at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Space...
Last month, Department of the Air Force leaders announced a four-pronged plan to reshape the DAF to stay competitive in modern great power competition. These categories – develop people, generate readiness, project power and develop integrated capabilities – form a holistic approach to optimizing the Air Force and Space Force. Each of these ar...
Robert Hill, founder and CEO of Cyturus, highlighted the importance of complying with regulatory requirements like the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in order to ensure the security of every link in the supply chain and protect tiny subsystems in U.S. defense platforms from cyberthreat actors. In the...
President Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence was seen as a watershed, a ruling that acknowledged both the capacity for tremendous good and harmful risk inherent in AI technologies. It and its attendant guidance, issued by the Office of Management and Budget, se...
Space is a rapidly evolving domain, and the federal government is looking to industry for modern technologies that could revolutionize related activities across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. To cultivate these important partnerships, it is important to send out “the right market signal,” Devin Brande, director of the C...
The U.S. Army is currently working to implement its Unified Data Reference Architecture, which is designed to join a data mesh and data fabric in a way that would allow users to easily access data products across different formats and locations. According to Deputy Secretary of the Army for Data, Engineering and Software Jennifer Swanson, who sp...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems division has received a pair of U.S. Air Force contracts worth $279.3 million combined to help sustain and enhance the U.S. Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation System. The company will provide a trusted network environment with cross-domain collaboration and information-sharing capab...
A day without an American presence in the space domain would be “catastrophic” to the country’s “prosperity, defense and security,” argued Gen. Stephen Whiting, who leads U.S. Space Command. The SPACECOM commander says that due to shifts over the years, the strategic environment has evolved so that the world is heavily reliant on the comm...
Executive Mosaic, the government contracting industry’s premier media and events organization, is pleased to induct Tom Arseneault into the 2024 Wash100. As president and CEO of BAE Systems, Arseneault is recognized for his forward-thinking support of the U.S. defense effort through inspired new business combinations and aggressive contract purs...
Brian Berger, president of Cytellix, said merging governance, risk and compliance with managed detection and response could enable organizations to improve their cybersecurity posture. “When companies combine GRC and MDR capabilities, however, they create a measurable and comprehensive approach to cybersecurity risk and compliance,” Berger wrote...
