Members of Congress want the intelligence community to invest more in commercial technology platforms and share data with the Defense Department as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 Intelligence Authorization Act. On Sept. 30, the House Intelligence Committee passed its version of the bill that authorizes IC spending levels 0.5 percent above the White Ho...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its highly-anticipated Optimizing the Hybrid Workforce Forum on Thursday to bring together the significant members from across the federal government and industry to discuss how to ensure a strong workforce culture, uncover risks that may undermine mission effectiveness and leverage data to inform change management...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its AI: Innovation in Homeland Security Forum on Thursday which gathered private industry and government officials to discuss how cutting-edge AI technology is shaping the nation’s homeland security priorities, goals and general strategy as well as the role industry can play in the future of countering foreign adversari...
In an effort to streamline the organization’s overlapping systems and harmonize challenges across centers and directorates, the Defense Intelligence Agency released its standardized framework for a coherent approach in achieving multilevel objectives in June. Lt. Gen Scott Berrier, director of DIA, said the 2021 DIA Strategy co...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business unit has secured a nearly $139 million contract from the U.S. Navy to procure, repair, overhaul and update parts of a radar-guided gun system for defending against anti-ship missiles and aerial threats. Under the three-year contract, Raytheon Missiles & Defense will also provider mini-stock point supp...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 27, 2021 — A Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) executive vice president has highlighted the need for the Department of Defense to have a unified, open network capable of providing the military with capabilities to enable data access, sharing and analysis and facilitate the battlefield decision-making process, ExecutiveBiz re...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Cybersecurity in National Security Summit on Tuesday to provide a platform for the members of the federal government, industry and the government contracting (GovCon) community to discuss the major initiatives bolstering the DOD’s cybersecurity as well as the opportunities for private industry to support the federal g...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Fall 2021 5G Summit to bring together some of the most influential executives from the federal government and industry to explore the impact that 5G integration has on the private and public sectors, as well as future programs, plans and priorities as the nation aligns with emerging technology. Jay...
The U.S. Cyber Command is planning to collaborate with different agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cyber Information Security Agency to strengthen cybersecurity initiatives for the upcoming 2022 elections, Signal reported Wednesday. Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of the Cybercom who serves concurrently as the director of the Na...
The Department of Defense has unveiled a program that seeks to provide government funding to startups working on hardware technologies that could have national security and commercial applications, DOD News reported Monday. The National Security Innovation Capital program looks for tech startups across the U.S. to help them further develop and comme...
