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Hypersonic weapons are capable of traveling at five to 25 times the speed of sound. Generally the term refers to a specific class of missiles, which includes hypersonic glide vehicles, hypersonic cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu recently articulated the Department of Defe...

In this particular era of increased global competition, the United States is prioritizing its international partnerships, alliances and coalitions more than ever. Today, the U.S. and its allies are on the cusp of important advancements in technology areas that have been identified as critical to winning the great power competition. In 2021, the Unit...

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...

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...

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...