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...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 27, 2022 — LMI will provide the Department of Defense with data analytics, management and other services under a contract with the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness, ExecutiveBiz reported. The award also covers industrial base assessments as well as maintenance policy and materiel r...
Craig Martell, former head of machine learning at Lyft (Nasdaq: LYFT), has been named chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Defense. He will oversee efforts to advance the adoption of data, AI, analytics and digital platforms to provide warfighters decision advantage on the battlefield, DOD said Monday. “With Craig...
The Department of Defense has created two deputy assistant secretaries as part of the reorganization of its industrial policy office to improve oversight of the defense industrial base amid supply chain challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Defense One reported Thursday. Jessica Maxwell, a spokesperson for DOD, said one of the new deputies will f...
Travis Langster, vice president and general manager of COMSPOC, will move from the space traffic management services provider to the Department of Defense to assume the post of principal director of DOD space policy, SpaceNews reported Monday. He will serve within the office of the deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and missile defense,...
William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper and a former Air Force acquisition chief, received Senate confirmation to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, the Air Force Magazine reported Thursday. During his Senate confirmation hearing in late March, LaPlante, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the U...
Oceus has secured a potential $84 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to design and build a mobile cellular network for the Department of Defense. The 10-year IDIQ award calls for the provision of a communications system to support DOD’s wireless applications and future network updates, the company said Tuesday. Contract w...
David Norquist, former deputy secretary at the Department of Defense, has been appointed president and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association in a move that takes effect May 1. NDIA said Thursday James Boozer, the trade group’s executive vice president, will assume leadership of the association on an acting basis before Norquist of...
The Department of Defense plans to award cloud infrastructure services contracts worth potentially $9 billion combined in December under the five-year Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, CNBC reported Tuesday. In July 2021, DOD launched JWCC as a multivendor procurement effort to replace the single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructu...
President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget request includes $773 billion in defense spending and Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, said the proposed DOD budget would help the Pentagon advance integrated deterrence, carry out operations aligned with priorities and modernize the Joint Force. ...
