Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said that DOD will introduce a new “effort” to facilitate industry collaboration in bringing commercial space platforms to the U.S. warfighter mission, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. “The goal of this effort is to incorporate [t...
BAE Systems has accepted from Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and Qorvo (Nasdaq: QRVO) the first set of multichip prototypes developed under the Department of Defense’s State-of-the-art Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging program. Intel delivered its multichip package for SHIP’s digital segment and Qorvo handed over to BAE its multichip module for the initi...
Given its role as the organization responsible for helping the U.S. Department of Defense bring in and implement commercial technologies, the Defense Innovation Unit was among the first DOD entities to take up the fast follower strategy. The fast follower approach holds that government and research organizations should, rather than focus on their ow...
Eight weeks have now passed since the announcement of the Wash100 Award class of 2023 and with it, the beginning of this year’s popular vote contest. For two whole months, the 100 executives — company leaders, technology experts, government agency directors — who Executive Mosaic’s election committee deemed the best and brightest in governm...
The beginning of the eighth week of Executive Mosaic’s 2023 Wash100 Popular Vote contest finds the top four inductees in the same spot as the past two weeks. Carahsoft President Craig Abod, Microsoft Federal executives Rick Wagner and Wes Anderson, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are still the apparent favorites, while Illuminate Mission So...
McAleese and Associates is hosting its 14th Annual Defense Programs Conference, one of the largest and most informative yearly events in the government contracting industry, on March 15. This year’s star-studded speaker lineup consists of the top decision makers across the Department of Defense, including officials like Heidi Shyu, Will...
The private sector is known for its rapid technological innovation process unencumbered by bureaucracy, restrictive requirements or mysterious funding procedures. Unfortunately, these qualities have not typically described the innovation process within the U.S. federal government; but now, public sector leaders are taking a page from the commercial ...
Here we are again, gathered to inspect and react to the week’s changes in the 2023 Wash100 popular vote standings. The Wash100 Award, for those who aren’t familiar, is Executive Mosaic’s yearly prize handed to the 100 most distinguished government officials, industry titans, technologists and more who all circle the government contracting...
Executive Mosaic is excited to recognize the impressive achievements of Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, with the 2023 Wash100 Award. Shyu earns the distinction — her third win total and second consecutive — due to a persistent support of technological modernization through dogged organizational maneu...
Many prognosticators and pundits have speculated that we have moved past the Information Age to a new phase of life and society dictated even more by technological advancements. Some call it the IoT, or Internet of Things Era and others consider it the Artificial Intelligence Era. Whichever moniker ends up sticking, there is no doubt that...
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