Beacon Global Strategies has appointed technology leaders Divyansh Kaushik and Ben Schramm as vice presidents to offer insights to the strategic advisory firm’s global technology policy practice and national security tech practice, respectively. Beacon said Thursday Kaushik brings to the role his experience in national security and artificial inte...
In honor of Memorial Day on Monday, May 27, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson has shared a heartfelt remembrance for his uncle Elmer Francis “Frank” Garrettson Jr., who served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. Garrettson, who founded Executive Mosaic and the Potomac Officers Club in 2002 as a way to foster...
Projections from the U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office indicate that service branches and government agencies could award approximately $1.7 billion in commercial satcom contracts over the next 12 months, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. CSCO outlined 10 contract opportunities for fiscal year 2024-2025 in its forecast to i...
The ever-increasing pace of technological advancement has put pressure on the Department of Defense to ramp up its exploration of 5G, a technology that plays a major role in today’s digitally-driven battlefield. At the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 5G Forum on May 22, you will have the opportunity to hear elite public and private sector experts...
Deloitte Consulting will provide advanced manufacturing support and enterprisewide digital manufacturing data vault capabilities and services under a potential seven-year, $99.8 million other transaction production agreement with the U.S. Navy. The majority of the contract work will occur in Arlington, Virginia, through April 2031, the Department of...
BAE Systems has secured a pair of contract modifications worth $104 million combined to build additional amphibious combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday it will produce and deliver production representative test vehicles to support government testing of the ACV’s recovery variant in 2025 under a $79 million contra...
A McAleese & Associates report on President Joe Biden’s proposed $850 billion budget for the Department of Defense offers a look at how much funding will go to service branches and programs in fiscal year 2025. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, reported that the Department of the Air...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded seven small businesses positions on a potential $7 billion contract to provide fire and emergency equipment and related logistics support for U.S. military services. The Department of Defense said Thursday DLA launched a competitive acquisition process and received 14 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefi...
Geoffrey Thome was elevated to the role of vice president of cloud and networks at Serco Group‘s U.S. business arm, where the information technology leader previously worked as director for over a year. He announced his Serco Inc. VP appointment in a LinkedIn post and will report to the chief information officer of the IT...
After a rebrand and the delivery of a minimum viable capability in 2023, the Department of Defense’s multi-billion-dollar effort to connect the U.S. military’s sensors to shooters in a unified environment is getting closer to becoming a reality. The Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, is now known as CJADC2, with the new ‘C’ bei...
