Doug Beck, a vice president of Apple and a U.S. Navy Reserve captain, has been appointed to serve as director of the Department of Defense’s innovation arm beginning on May 1. He will report directly to the defense secretary as part of a realignment of the Defense Innovation Unit’s management structure and oversee the adoption...
The Department of Defense is working to adopt commercial technologies at a faster rate than ever before as the United States’ peer and near-peer competitors increase their own technological capabilities. This approach, known as a “fast follower” strategy, was outlined in the 2022 National Defense Strategy, which called for the DOD t...
The U.S. government’s technology pipeline can be bound up in years of regulations, requirements and confirmation. In the military specifically, the process of developing, prototyping, testing and delivering a tool to the warfighter can take years. It has left defense components scrambling for new sources of innovation, striving to speed the proces...
The Department of Defense is looking beyond large, traditional contractors and setting its sights on startup companies to keep up with China’s advancement in military technology, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Some industry watchers expressed support for DOD’s move, but they said the department should fortify strategies, includ...
Given its role as the organization responsible for helping the U.S. Department of Defense bring in and implement commercial technologies, the Defense Innovation Unit was among the first DOD entities to take up the fast follower strategy. The fast follower approach holds that government and research organizations should, rather than focus on their ow...
The Department of Defense plans to explore the potential behind generative artificial intelligence during an upcoming AI conference in June, following a wave of commercial developments in the area. Maynard Holliday, deputy chief technology officer for critical technologies within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineer...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to include Wes Anderson, vice president of defense at Microsoft, in the 2023 edition of the Wash100 Award in recognition of his efforts to drive the utilization of augmented and virtual reality, cloud and artificial intelligence technologies in support of armed forces. The award marks the third time Anderson was selected...
In December, four major cloud service providers landed a spot on the Department of Defense’s $9 billion Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract, the Pentagon’s enterprise-wide cloud adoption effort. To take a deeper look at what each vendor brings to the contract, Executive Mosaic sat down with leaders from the four awardee companies: Amazon ...
John “JD” Parkes grew up attending defense trade shows with his father, who was a legacy Kodak commercial and government systems executive, so he’s always had an inherent understanding of the government contracting landscape. After Parkes earned an image science degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology, he immediately began a career ser...
David McKeown, senior information security officer and deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity at the Department of Defense, became the latest government official to be inducted into the 2023 edition of the Wash100. McKeown’s first selection to receive the Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic reflects his leadership in DOD-wide effor...
