Cybersecurity has taken the global stage with the prominence of electronic warfare tactics in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but cyber aggression isn’t only a symptom of major geopolitical conflict. It can and does happen with frequency in peacetime and other more unexpected windows as well. La Monte Yarborough “While events such as t...
Over the past decade, the battlefield has expanded in both range and depth as the U.S., its allies and its adversaries race to perfect the application of emerging technologies to harness their benefits and gain an advantage in the modern warfighting landscape. According to expert panelists, who participated in a discussion during the Potomac Officer...
The U.S. Postal Service has awarded contracts to purchase battery-operated delivery vans and install charging stations at various agency facilities nationwide as part of its fleet electrification initiative. Awards cover the procurement of 9,250 E-Transit Battery Electric Vehicles from automaker Ford and more than 14,000 pieces of EV supply eq...
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s communications network — the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, or JWICS — started over three decades ago with an experiment to transmit a video feed securely between DIA headquarters and the Pentagon. Since then, JWICS has evolved into the top-secret sensitive, compartmented information, or S...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Aaron Weis, chief information officer at the Department of the Navy, as an inductee into the 2023 edition of the Wash100 for his leadership in defining digital modernization objectives as part of his information superiority framework for DON in the year ahead. This is the fourth consecutive year Executive...
Mary Davie, a 34-year federal government service veteran, has joined the advisory board of real estate and facilities consulting and services firm The Building People. She will provide advice to the company’s senior leadership team on leadership development, opportunity capture, operations management and organizational transformation matters, ...
In response to the growing need for modern defense technologies now and in the future, the United States Army established its Army Futures Command, an organization dedicated to facilitating persistent modernization within the service branch. Since its launch in 2018, the command has centered three focus areas: prioritizing people, designin...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, for the third consecutive year, as a winner of the Wash100 Award for championing innovation with contractors to support tactical and strategic goals across the Department of Defense. Hicks was sworn in as the Pentagon’s No. 2 civilian official in February 2021 and...
The Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide cloud environment has been years in the making, but now, the wheels are really beginning to turn. In December 2022, the DOD awarded its long-awaited $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract to four industry cloud service providers — Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle — m...
Artificial intelligence has exploded across the commercial and federal spaces in recent months, especially since the launch of the generative AI tool, ChatGPT. While at times controversial, the application is undoubtedly making waves across the technology industry, and it’s poised to completely revolutionize the way humans interact with AI. “No ...
