Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the Department of Defense should continue its focus on intellectual property and security and address challenges related to those two factors to safeguard and further advance innovation. He...
U.S. military branches are ramping up efforts to help the Department of Defense achieve objectives it has set for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy. To enable data sharing across the different services within the agency, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved a strategy document for the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Dom...
REI Systems has received a $76 million contract to build a cloud-based application testing platform for a Department of Defense office that manages human resource information on military personnel and veterans. The company said Thursday it will integrate automated software quality assurance tools into a DevSecOps environment to support the managemen...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 2021 Digital Transformation Forum on Tuesday to bring together the most notable executives and thought leaders from across the federal landscape to discuss how they are transforming their organizations through the adoption of strategic technologies. Check out the Potomac Officers Club’s Event Page to view on-...
Mara Elizabeth Karlin, principal deputy assistant secretary for international security affairs at the Defense Department, was confirmed by the Senate to serve as DOD’s assistant secretary for strategy, plans and capabilties. Senators approved the nomination by voice vote Monday, following a series of congressional events that took place since ...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed a plan designed to guide the military’s implementation activities aimed at ensuring U.S. electromagnetic spectrum advantage and providing warfighters with “freedom of action” in the EMS. The Department of Defense said Thursday its operations in air, land, maritime, space and cyberspace doma...
Daniel Ragsdale, former principal director for cyber in the Department of Defense’s research and engineering office, has been appointed vice president and architect at Arlington, Virginia-based Two Six Technologies. The retired U.S. Army colonel brings his three decades of military experience and his knowledge of cybersecurity to the technolog...
Gregory Kausner, executive director for international cooperation at the Department of Defense, has been assigned to perform the duties of defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment. DOD said Tuesday it also appointed Paul Cramer, DOD’s principal deputy assistant secretary for sustainment (installations), to serve as Kausner’...
A global health crisis is what it took for agencies under the Department of Defense to consider adopting a unified enterprise that can support centralized systems for email and office applications. Danielle Metz, deputy CIO for information enterprise at the DOD, said in a June 1 interview with Federal News Network that the experience of...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on recent congressional actions on the Department of Defense’s budget for fiscal year 2022. The Senate Armed Services Committee voted to approve and move the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act to the Senate floor for consideration. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese &a...
