President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to address foreign threats to U.S. national security by authorizing the secretary of the Treasury to regulate U.S. investments in countries of concern that are involved in developing technologies considered essential for military, cyber, intelligence and surveillance operations. The EO identifies sem...
The Office of Strategic Capital was stood up in December of last year, marking a decisive move by the Department of Defense to direct financial support to the technology industry. OSC is particularly interested in funding projects and organizations related to “advanced materials, next-generation biotechnology and quantum computing,” per rep...
Jen Sovada, president of SandboxAQ‘s public sector and chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Quantum Group, was named inaugural member of the board of advisers at private equity firm Bluestone Investment Partners. As advisory board members, Sovada and four other leaders from the defense and government services industry will provide Blues...
Clif Basnight, a 17-year U.S. Army veteran and former vice president at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined Ultra Intelligence & Communications as VP of strategic technologies. He will lead strategic growth initiatives across the company and oversee market analysis to help identify business opportunities through product development and a...
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...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking industry proposals for a project to develop core technologies for a sixth-generation wireless network. A notice published Friday on SAM.gov states the acquisition is reserved for small businesses. NIST is looking for a vendor to design, evaluate and demonstrate artificial intelligence-bas...
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...
SandboxAQ, a spinoff of Google’s parent Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL), has booked an other transaction agreement from the Defense Information Systems Agency to develop a cryptographic technology prototype intended to protect against quantum computing-based security threats. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Deloitte will respectively offer DevSecOps and...
Amanda Cody, a nearly two-decade data security veteran, has returned to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) as chief information security officer. She previously held the CISO role at the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center and also supported Booz Allen’s defense and intelligence customers, the company said Wednesday. Cody a...
