Departments and agencies across the federal government have pushed to increase opportunities for small businesses. Especially after the COVID-19, various Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), such as the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and the General Services Administration (GSA), have educated business owners on new r...
In February, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued five Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence (AI): Responsible, Equitable, Traceable, Reliable and Governable, developed through recommendations from 2019 by the Defense Innovation Board (DIB) and the interim report of the National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI). Potomac Officers Club wil...
The Department of Defense released a strategy to facilitate its transformation into a data-centric organization that considers data as a strategic asset critical to building and maintaining operational advantage on the battlefield. The Data Strategy "reinforces DOD’s priority focus areas of joint warfighting, senior leader decision support a...
NASA has awarded 14 companies contracts worth approximately $372.2M combined to develop technologies for the agency’s lunar and Mars exploration programs. The proposals were selected under the fifth solicitation for the Tipping Point program and address three topic areas: lunar surface, cryogenic fluid management and closed-loop descent and landin...
The Defense Information Systems Agency is looking for information on managed data services to support the U.S. Army’s modernization of its satellite communications network for sustainment operations....
The Federal Communications Commission has unveiled the list of 386 companies that are qualified to bid for up to $16B in support over a 10-year period to deliver broadband services to unserved areas as part of the Phase 1 auction for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund....
Potomac Officers Club’s (POC) 2020 Navy Forum continued with an expert panel full of significant names of consequence to the development of the collaboration and innovation for the Navy. If you missed the event, you can still register to watch the Navy Forum in its entirety by visiting Potomac Officers Club’s Event Archive....
Founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic Jim Garrettson presented Kevin Robbins, co-founder of consulting firm Wolf Den Associates and investment firm Blue Delta Capital Partners, with his first Wash100 Award on Wednesday. Robbins has received his Wash100 Award for his involvement in some of the major transactions in the GovCon space....
Medical diagnostic technology maker Cue Health has been awarded a $481M other transaction agreement by the Department of Defense to increase manufacturing capacity for testing kits meant to detect COVID-19 infections....
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a potential 15-year, $722M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to six companies to provide wired telecommunications services to VA Medical Centers....
