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When Jen Sovada realized she could make more of an impact on the outside of the military looking in, she retired from the U.S. Air Force. Now, her company, the fast-growing startup SandboxAQ, regularly does business with the USAF and Sovada still gets to support the mission, circumnavigating the oft-labyrinthine bureaucracy of the government. Sovada...
5G is becoming increasingly critical to defense missions at home and abroad, and the technology is evolving more rapidly than ever before. The Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 5G Forum on May 22 takes a deep dive into the U.S. government’s top 5G priorities, opportunities, challenges and initiatives as advancements in this vital technology area con...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond Those familiar with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, especially its updated 2.0 version, know that its most significant shift from earlier Department of Defense cybersecurity efforts lies in the introduction of a tiered certification process. Unlike past standards, such as NIST SP...
The U.S. Navy has begun seeking proposals for a potential $200 million small business set-aside contract to build, repair and renovate government installations at the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southwest area of responsibility. The multiple-award construction contract has a two-year base period with three option years and covers ne...
Rachele Cooper, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aptive Resources, has earned a spot among the 100 executives embodying the qualities of a Wash100 winner. She won the award for her management consulting leadership and consistent federal government support. As one of the 42 first-time Wash100 winners, Ms. Cooper forges a path for small...
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...
Modernization is a top priority for the Department of Defense, and many department-wide modernization initiatives are currently underway. Though these efforts have a broad reach across the organization, individual DOD components are supplementing them with tailored approaches to their own specific challenges. To address the unique demands of shifts ...
Information technology is a top priority for the Department of Defense, and the organization is currently working to update its software modernization strategy, according to DOD Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Leslie Beavers. The existing plan operates around three tenets: accelerating cloud adoption, establishing a software factory eco...
One of the more ambitious missions of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent memory is its dynamic spectrum sharing, or DSS, framework. This initiative aims to identify a pathway to securely open up a spectrum band to commercial wireless users that is typically used for critical military purposes like missile deterrence. The DOD’s work...
The U.S. Army wants $186 billion in spending power for fiscal year 2025, a figure which has not yet been approved. The budget includes funds for nine barracks construction projects, an increased focus on fitness facilities and routine upticks in pay for soldiers. It has also been assembled with an eye toward responding to “aggression in...
