Software developers who want to sell to the federal government better ensure they are meeting minimum cybersecurity standards, or else, a top federal official said Thursday at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Cyber Summit. “I’m not going to buy anything that is not ‘Secure by Design,\'” said Bridget Bean, senior officia...
Mike Loomis, president and CEO of Nokia Federal Solutions, has personally received the 2025 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. The executive earned his first Wash100 Award after driving the company’s growth since its establishment in January 2004. “Mike is hitting the ground running as the f...
IonQ has agreed to buy Capella Space and Lightsynq Technologies to advance its plan to develop a space-based quantum key distribution, or QKD, network and extend its vision for the quantum internet. College Park, Maryland-based IonQ said Wednesday it expects the Capella Space transaction to conclude in the second half of 2025, subject to regulatory...
Ashley Manning, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy at the Department of Defense, has emerged as a transformative leader in the realm of cybersecurity. With a decorated career spanning high-profile roles across international strategy, legislative policy and cyber defense, Manning is reshaping the intersection of defense ...
The CIA’s Directorate of Digital Innovation, or DDI, is seeking an improved relationship with GovCons through additional industry days and faster contracting vehicles to help it better procure services. Juliane Gallina, CIA deputy director for digital innovation, said Thursday at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Digital Transformation Su...
SandboxAQ has launched AQtive Guard, a cyber platform designed to address threats posed by the rise of non-human identities, or NHIs, and other cryptographic assets used by artificial intelligence agents. What Is AQtive Guard? The company said Tuesday that AQtive Guard has Discover and Protect modules that provide organizations with visibility into ...
Potomac Officers Club is honored to announce Jane Rathbun, chief information officer of the Department of the Navy, as a distinguished keynote speaker for the highly anticipated 2025 Digital Transformation Summit. Scheduled for April 24 at the Hilton-McLean in McLean, Virginia, the event brings together prominent government and indust...
SandboxAQ has closed its Series E financing round, raising over $450 million in capital. The company said Friday it will use the funding to accelerate innovation in quantitative artificial intelligence and broaden its reach across critical industries. According to SandboxAQ, the investments highlight the investors’ confidence in its large quan...
Juliane Gallina is a rare kind of intelligence community official. Her résumé contains experience that covers all bases: private sector, military and federal agency, and Gallina, who now serves as deputy director for digital intelligence at the CIA, uses this multi-industry fluency to speak to different audiences about the agency’s prioriti...
Gary Wang has led a storied and accomplished government contracting career. He began his IT journey at the start of the new millennium and logged nearly a decade at Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions business unit. At Lockheed, he began as chief engineer, evolved into senior program manager and eventually became direc...
