Paul Scharre, a senior fellow and the director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, is involved in a range of research areas for CNAS, including technology, national security and artificial intelligence. He™s also the author of Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War....
On Tuesday, Jan. 15th, Govcon leaders from the public and private sector gathered for the Potomac Officers Club™s 5th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit. The event featured keynote addresses from five of the top leaders in the R&D field. Mary Miller, acting assistant secretary for research and engineering at the Department of De...
Dr. Marie Sandrock, deputy director of the Defense Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office, oversees SCO™s mission to develop new and innovative technologies to shape and counter emerging threats across all domains, bringing game-changing capabilities to the Joint Force. As SCO™s deputy director, Dr. Sandrock™s top priority f...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 2, 2018 ” Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., was named in December as a member of the National Defense Industrial Association’s board of directors, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 12. He joined the latest batch of elected board members at the nonpartisan and nonprofit association of defen...
Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal sales at Gigamon, has said government agencies should have the right balance of technology, people and processes to defend and protect their information technology systems from cyber threats. Reilly wrote that one of the difficult challenges facing agencies is recruiting and retaining cybersecurity profe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 5, 2018 ” A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has partnered with Intelligent RF Solutions for the latter to resell a machine learning software that works to automatically classify spectrum signals, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The reseller agreement covers the General Dynamics Mission Systems-developed...
On Thursday, Nov. 1st, GovCon leaders from the public and private sector gathered for the Potomac Officers Club™s 2018 Multi-Domain Battlefield Forum, where keynote speaker Brig. Gen. Chance Saltzman, director of current operations, U.S. Air Force, discussed the challenges and strategic opportunities facing multi-domain operations. An expert pa...
On Thursday, Oct. 25th, GovCon leaders from the public and private sector gathered for the Potomac Officers Club™s 2018 Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap Forum, featuring a keynote address from Dale Ormond, principal director, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering. His remarks were followed by an expert panel...
Bill Rucker, president of Trustwave Government Solutions, has said government agencies should establish strategic partnerships and identify vulnerabilities in order to protect networks and counter cyber hackers. Rucker wrote that agencies should leverage their partnerships with managed service providers to gain access to threat intelligence ami...
Paul Battaglia, vice president of government sales at BlackBerry (NYSE: BB), has said agencies should protect mobile devices from hackers and adversaries and one way to do that is through the use of derived credentials. Battaglia wrote that such an approach could help agencies verify the identity of government officials and employees by generating a...
