The Department of Defense introduced its Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, or CDAO, in early 2022, out of a dissatisfaction with the progress made by the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, known as the JAIC. In the two and a half years since the CDAO’s establishment, though, how much progress has the Pentagon made with...
Executive Mosaic has selected Daryle Wingerter, Leidos senior vice president and chief growth officer of the commercial and international sector, as chairman of the International Group for the 4×24 Executive Leadership Series. The 4×24 Executive Leadership Program unites senior industry executives and top government officials through netwo...
Lee Ann Crochunis is not a fair-weather healthcare advocate — she’s spent her whole career fighting to give Americans healthcare access and to improve the processes and technology around that delivery. She has logged over 20 total years with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and was named deputy director of its Office of...
By Ron Lear, Vice President of Models and Frameworks at ISACA The Capability Maturity Model Integration, or CMMI, has grown and evolved quite a bit in its 30-plus-year history. Tracing CMMI’s roots back to the Software CMM first released in 1991 for the Department of Defense, CMMI set the bar for process improvement and is...
Just before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Bradford Powell joined U.S. Air Force ROTC at the University of Iowa because he wanted to actively serve the country after graduation, rather than sit idly behind a desk. As fate would have it though, post-9/11, he became an acquisition officer and ended up doing a fair amount...
Every year, the U.S. Intelligence Community publishes a collection of the most alarming threats to the country’s national security. The information included provides a structure and framing for the fight against that which is seen to contest American freedoms and the rights of citizens. “The world that emerges from this tumultuous period will be...
The Office of Naval Research is employing science and technology strategies to help improve external partnerships and train the naval officers of tomorrow to develop critical Navy-Marine Corps capabilities. During a keynote speech at the Potomac Officer Club’s 2024 Navy Summit, RADM Kurt Rothenhaus, the chief of Naval Research,...
Through two major plans this year, the Department of Defense announced its intention to take seriously the need for commercial space products. The DOD Commercial Space Integration Strategy and the U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Space Strategy were released within weeks of one another in April and declared that the rapid advancements taking pla...
Blue Delta Capital Partners has secured $250 million for its fourth fund, allowing it to continue making growth stage equity investments in companies in the U.S. federal government services market. In a statement published Thursday, Blue Delta General Partner Phil Nolan said the venture capital firm and its team of investors could provide mentoring ...
Calibre Systems has expanded its technology, tools and solutions, a.k.a TT&S, team with the appointment of information technology leaders Steve Septoff and Tom Johns as principals of enterprise solutions. The company said Septoff and Johns have extensive experience in enterprise sales and offerings that support U.S. federal customers. Septoff ha...
