Although the United States Army has been strategically prioritizing the “Army of 2030” recently, the service’s modernization goals don’t stop there. Today, Army leaders are looking even further into the future and preparing for fights well beyond the next decade. During his keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Arm...
Since its launch in 2022, the Army of 2030 initiative has guided the service branch toward its modernization goals. Now characterized by Army Secretary and 2023 Wash100 winner Christine Wormuth’s recently announced six operational imperatives – see and sense farther, mass dispersed forces with combat first, win the fires fight, protect...
The Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, or JADC2, has been a high priority for leaders across the defense landscape as they work to provide the United States’ joint force with a connected, unified network to accelerate data sharing and decision making. The Air Force’s response to the Pentagon’s JADC2 effo...
All of the four-star generals of the U.S. Air Force and the vast majority of three-stars assembled in June at a table top exercise that demonstrated various scenarios regarding strategic maneuvers required when carrying out logistics in contested settings and conditions. The service’s leaders saw it as a highly beneficial process that is nece...
Semiconductor chips underpin nearly every technology, weapon system and digital capability across the Department of Defense, making them increasingly important for a wide array of government and military missions. However, the United States’ production of these chips has fallen in recent decades, threatening our technological standing on the globa...
To maintain preparedness for current and future conflicts, the U.S. Army has embraced the “Army of 2030,” a momentous modernization effort designed to shift the service branch’s priorities to fit the characteristics of today’s international competition and deploy the technologies necessary to succeed in the evolving battlefield. The pla...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet In early 2013, during his second term in office, then-President Barack Obama signed the annual Defense Authorization Act, setting in motion a process to change the federal government’s small business contracting programs. That same year, the Defense Contract Audit Agency made small business a ...
As the digital world continues to expand, cybersecurity, data and new technologies are rising to the forefront and becoming essential to government and industry organizations alike. M9 Solutions President and Chief Revenue Officer Sean DuGuay sat down with Executive Mosaic to discuss how the defense landscape is changing, which emerging technol...
The U.S. Department of Defense’s high-level technology incubation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was formed in early 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial Earth satellite: Sputnik 1. Now, DARPA officials are seeing the viability of the Soviet Union’s space program nearly seven decades ago re...
During his nearly four years as chief information officer for the Department of the Navy, Aaron Weis championed widespread information technology modernization efforts and asserted that the service branch’s cybersecurity strategy needed to evolve to keep up with emerging threats. Now, as managing director of technology at Google Public Sector, We...
