The Department of Defense and the National Spectrum Consortium have asked industry and academia for insights, ideas and other feedback through a call for whitepapers as part of efforts to speed up the development, production and testing of 5G Open Radio Access Network technologies in the U.S. Virtualization and open architecture development has been...
As the U.S. Army places heavy emphasis on modernization, service leaders are looking to harness more industry innovations that can help the branch create robust information and data sharing capabilities at a quicker speed. Matt Benigni, chief data officer for the Army Futures Command, said during a recent Dcode webinar that he views digital transfor...
Paul Meyer, president of Department 22 at Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He said Department 22 was formed in response to customers’ call to boost the speed of innovation amid the Department of Defense’s implementation of its Joint All...
Over the course of the last two and a half years, the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, known as CMMC, has undergone multiple changes, organizational shifts, revisions and updates. Now, DOD officials are expecting to include CMMC requirements in federal contracts as soon as May 2023 — but there is s...
In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Lance Spencer, client executive vice president of defense for AT&T, to talk about his experience with the company as well as with the cybersecurity space and the intelligence community. He also discussed AT&T’s 5G-focused initiatives and its application to Department of...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report outlining key takeaways from the speech of Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks on fiscal year 2023 budget request and the National Defense Strategy at the Reagan Institute. Hicks, a 2022 Wash100 awardee, noted that the Department of Defense’s $773 billion budget proposal for FY 20...
The Department of Defense’s research and engineering office has made changes to its organization to help DOD speed up the transition of technologies into capabilities for warfighters. DOD said Tuesday the office redesignated the three directors of defense R&E as deputy chief technology officers. The deputy CTO for science and technology, forme...
The Department of Defense is eyeing another interim rule for its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in May 2023. Currently, the department is in the process of updating its Code of Federal Regulations to include the program’s most recent update, CMMC 2.0, which was launched in November 2021 after an internal review. ...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that John Sherman, chief information officer for the Department of Defense (DOD), officially received his 2022 Wash100 Award during the 3rd Annual CIO Summit from Potomac Officers Club where Sherman was featured as the leading keynote speaker. John Sherman was presented with the most prestigious and acclai...
GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) will manufacture semiconductors for use in national security systems under a $117 million agreement with the Department of Defense. DOD said Monday its investment under the Defense Production Act Title III is a follow-on to an $8 million contract awarded to the company in 2021 and will give defense and aerospace custome...
