Space-based missile tracking has become a top priority for U.S. space agencies as global adversaries’ use of hypersonic and long-range missiles continues to skyrocket, posing a significant threat to national security. Countries like China, North Korea and others have been building and testing an increasing amount of intercontinental ballistic miss...
Paul Burnette, vice president and director of the Software Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said the federal government should collaborate with industry to develop and field “hardened, optimal code” and advance the adoption of the SecDevOps approach to protect software from potential cyberattacks. Burnette wrote that SecDevOps provide...
The United States’ near-peer adversaries have the same technologies that we do, but on a much larger scale. The only way to be survivable in the near-peer fight of the future is to “be able to be networked, agile and lethal,” according to Greg Wenzel, executive vice president and a leader in Booz Allen Hamilton’s global defense...
The U.S. Air Force has released a draft request for proposals for a potential 10-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for enterprise cybersecurity support services. The Enterprise Cyber Capabilities multi-award, IDIQ contract seeks to streamline the acquisition process for cyber services, enable warfighters to maintain information ...
The U.S. Intelligence Community is prioritizing cloud migration as it works to push capabilities out to the tactical edge and better support U.S. warfighters with access to critical data. Notably along this effort, the Department of Defense recently released its software modernization strategy, which replaces its 2018 cloud strategy and more clearl...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is shifting its workflow approach and prioritizing speed to close its pacing gap with other global powers in today’s rapidly changing geopolitical environment, according to NGA Chief Information Officer Mark Andress. “We’re moving away from a Continental U.S.-first, human-initiated, point-to-poin...
A few years from now, the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability will be in place and operational as the foundation for the department’s JADC2 initiative, according to John Sherman, chief information officer of DOD and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner. The department’s cloud adoption efforts have been difficult and remain diffi...
Steve Orrin, chief technology officer and senior PE with Intel Federal, published his first article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Friday. GovCon Expert Steve Orrin provides a look into the current cybersecurity space as it relates to artificial intelligence, machine learning and other emerging technologies influencin...
Space satellites serve as the foundation for a myriad of civilian, military, economic and commercial operations within the U.S.; everything from cell phone service to GPS systems to weather forecasting operates based on data and insights gathered from satellites on orbit. However, this dependence is being jeopardized by the increasing democrat...
Derrick Pledger, vice president and director of the Digital Modernization Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said establishing deep strategic partnerships with other companies could help facilitate the development of new capabilities and platforms that could help address mission challenges facing federal agencies. Pledger wrote that there are three...
