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Potomac Officers Club, the nation’s leading GovCon networking events organization, is excited to confirm Michael Duffey, under secretary of war for acquisition and sustainment, as the opening keynote speaker for the 2026 Defense R&D Summit, taking place Jan. 29. Duffey joins Emil Michael, under secretary of war for research and engineering...
The Department of War is accelerating its push into unmanned systems, moving beyond experimentation toward large-scale production, streamlined acquisition and integrated doctrine. From mass-producing low-cost attack drones to expanding counter-unmanned aircraft system capabilities, recent moves signal a decisive shift that defense contractors and te...
President Trump’s most recent executive order on AI lays the groundwork for further development and implementation of the technology for military and national security applications. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order that protects AI development from patchwork and expensive compliance requirements resulting from various state laws. The ...
L3Harris Technologies has secured a potential $200 million follow-on contract from Lockheed Martin to supply insensitive munition propulsion units for the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, expanding production capacity for one of the Pentagon’s most in-demand tactical weapons. The order will be the first processed through the newly c...
Potomac Officers Club, the national capital region’s premier GovCon events, networking and media organization, is ecstatic to announce that Thomas Rondeau, the Department of War’s principal director for FutureG, will give a keynote address at the 2026 Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 29 at the Hilton McLean in northern Virginia. The 202...
The Department of War has issued a request for information to gather industry feedback on its plan to produce small unmanned aerial systems capable of carrying out one-way attack missions. What Is the Drone Dominance Program? The program, called Drone Dominance, is designed to provide U.S. producers opportunities to demonstrate the ability to manufa...
By Benji Hutchinson, CEO of Babel Street Modern adversaries don’t attack in one dimension. They exploit global supply chains, digital identities and the information environment simultaneously, probing for weak seams where risk passes unseen between organizations, vendors and people. For national security organizations, defense contractors and ...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond On Nov. 10, 2025, DFARS 252.204-7021 officially started requiring defense contractors to maintain CMMC certification at levels specified in their contracts. What many contractors don’t realize is that their eligibility for award is determined earlier in the process by a different...
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael — the Pentagon’s chief technology officer — will keynote the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 29 at the Hilton McLean in Virginia. The event will be POC’s first major GovCon gathering of 2026 and is expected to draw senior defense lead...
Enabled Intelligence has secured the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s SEQUOIA contract, a single-award vehicle worth up to $708 million over seven years to provide data labeling-as-a-service for geospatial artificial intelligence and machine learning programs. The work will span multiple NGA directorates and extend to Department of De...
