Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense, said President Joe Biden’s defense budget request of $842 billion for fiscal year 2024 includes about $6 billion in funding to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and supply chains, DOD reported Monday. The $6 billion budget allocation includes long-term investments in the area...
The private sector is known for its rapid technological innovation process unencumbered by bureaucracy, restrictive requirements or mysterious funding procedures. Unfortunately, these qualities have not typically described the innovation process within the U.S. federal government; but now, public sector leaders are taking a page from the commercial ...
Executive Mosaic is excited to recognize the impressive achievements of Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, with the 2023 Wash100 Award. Shyu earns the distinction — her third win total and second consecutive — due to a persistent support of technological modernization through dogged organizational maneu...
As global tensions rise and competition intensifies, the Department of Defense is making a clear pivot toward “hard target” adversaries. The impacts of this shift are echoing across the DOD and the intelligence community, and government leaders are looking at their strategies, capabilities and technologies from new perspectives. “We’ve reall...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service, as a 2023 Wash100 Award winner for advancing strategic partnerships with agencies, industry and academia and prioritizing the development of a joint cyberspace capability to...
Many prognosticators and pundits have speculated that we have moved past the Information Age to a new phase of life and society dictated even more by technological advancements. Some call it the IoT, or Internet of Things Era and others consider it the Artificial Intelligence Era. Whichever moniker ends up sticking, there is no doubt that...
The Defense Innovation Unit is inviting industry and academia to propose commercial open source intelligence platforms that will work to help the Department of Defense collect and analyze information on science and technology developments by foreign state competitors and adversaries. DOD is eyeing U.S.-made OSINT prototypes that can use machine lear...
By Kevin Plexico Looking back, it has been an eventful year in the government contracting industry, but there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic for the year ahead — including several trends to watch for. Last year, I wrote about significant trends for 2022 that were expected to impact how government contractors operate in...
The cloud services segment of the GovCon market is booming as government agencies prioritize modernization and migrate to the cloud. GovCon Wire spoke with PV Puvvada, CEO of NetImpact Strategies and Wash100 Award winner, to find out more about what’s driving this growth and what’s next for the cloud services market and emerging technologies....
Arvind Krishna, chairman and CEO of IBM (NYSE: IBM), has joined the board of directors of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). The 32-year Big Blue veteran has steered the technology company through market expansion initiatives across the areas of cloud and quantum computing, artificial intelligence and blockchain, Northrop said Wednesday. Krishna has serv...
