By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond Phase 1 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is live. The DFARS acquisition rule took effect on November 10, 2025, and DoD has begun incorporating CMMC requirements into new solicitations and contracts. Yet misconceptions about CMMC persist across the defense indus...
Government contractors are increasingly looking to artificial intelligence to streamline capture and proposal development, hoping to increase their win rate. However, AI cannot streamline these processes without a strong foundation and user buy-in. Sam Cooper, senior solutions engineer at Procurement Sciences AI, discussed the pillars of successful ...
Government agencies must ensure they have the right level of infrastructure to get the most out of the artificial intelligence systems they acquire A top OpenAI executive said at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 GovCon Executive Leadership Summit that if public sector professionals want AI to do more than simple tasks, they need to get...
Defensive cyber has become foundational to federal digital modernization strategy, shaping how agencies approach cloud adoption, AI integration and enterprise IT transformation. In a recent GovCon Conversation video interview, Josh Salmanson, vice president and defensive cyber practice lead at Leidos, spoke with Executive Mosaic about embedding cybe...
Potomac Officers Club has the privilege of announcing that Cameron Stanley, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of War, will be a keynote speaker at its 2026 Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 18. At the event, which is regularly one of POC’s most popular and most-buzzed-about GovCon conferences, represent...
By Yigit Guney, co-founder, CLEATUS Government contracting is not a writing problem. It is a workflow problem. Winning is rarely decided by who can draft the fastest paragraph. It is decided by who can run the pursuit loop better: customer and mission research, fit-and-bid decisions, competitive and incumbent analysis, teaming strategy, complia...
The Department of War is accelerating its push into unmanned systems, moving beyond experimentation toward large-scale production, streamlined acquisition and integrated doctrine. From mass-producing low-cost attack drones to expanding counter-unmanned aircraft system capabilities, recent moves signal a decisive shift that defense contractors and te...
Advanced wireless infrastructure is becoming as strategically important as artificial intelligence in modern defense operations 5G standalone enables network slicing, security and latency improvements critical for AI-enabled military use cases Integrated sensing and communications could offer a cost-effective way to counter drones using existing cel...
Potomac Officers Club, the national capital region’s premier GovCon events, networking and media organization, is ecstatic to announce that Thomas Rondeau, the Department of War’s principal director for FutureG, will give a keynote address at the 2026 Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 29 at the Hilton McLean in northern Virginia. The 202...
Cummins Power Generation has secured a $500 million firm-fixed-price contract to produce and make minor modifications to 500-kilowatt skid-mounted mobile electric power generator sets and power plants for Poland through the foreign military sales program. Work locations and funding will be set at the delivery-order level, the Department of War...
