The Biden administration will continue the previous administration’s effort to reform the Department of Defense’s procurement process, according to the official performing the duties of the undersecretary of the Navy. Former Navy acquisition chief James Geurts, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and a 2020 Wash100 winner, praised the former DOD leadership’s effort to […]
USS Miguel Keith, an expeditionary sea base ship, is now in active service following a Navy commissioning ceremony held at Naval Air Station North Island. The ship is named in honor of Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Lance Cpl. Miguel Keith, a Vietnam war hero. Capt. Troy Fendrick has been designated as USS Miguel […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has learned how to better manage critical software following its review of the Solarwinds Orion hack, an official said. Bob Kolasky, CISA’s assistant director for the National Risk Management Center and a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event, said the government has developed tools that can address […]
The U.S. Navy wants to invest in upgrading its business systems to improve vessel maintenance at shipyards. Speaking before members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Navy Acting Secretary Thomas Harker said some business systems at shipyards still use the antiquated Common Business-Oriented Language code. Harker, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, also […]
President Joe Biden is looking to nominate Frank Kendall as the next secretary of the Air Force. Kendall is a former top Department of Defense official who served as the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics under the Obama administration, Nextgov reported Wednesday. In that role, he was tasked with increasing the DOD’s […]
The Army welcomed the first batch of soldier coders to the newly opened office space in its software factory located at Austin Community College. Operating under the Army Futures Command, the factory was established to promote the development of new Army applications and serve as a training hub for soldier coders to devise new ways […]
The Space Development Agency is conducting market research to inform how it should update the communications standard for the next batch of satellites that will be added to the National Defense Space Architecture. The SDA seeks industry feedback on an optical communication standard for its Tranche 1 satellites, which will comprise the NDSA’s transport layer. […]
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic are guiding technological modernization efforts under the Biden administration. In a budget passback, the Office of Management and Budget recommended that agencies accelerate the adoption and utilization of electronic signatures for public facing digital forms. While they have been around since the late 1990s, digital signatures only became widely […]
Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and 2021 Wash100 winner, has raised concerns about the threat posed by cyber attacks and supply chain intrusions to SDA’s low-Earth orbit satellites. Speaking at an online Washington Space Business Roundtable forum, Tournear said those types of attacks could shut down a […]
The Department of Defense has earmarked over $311 million for a domestic investment program aimed at lowering Chinese investment in small American technology companies. Business intelligence company Govini estimated that Chinese investment in the U.S. defense supply chain swelled by 420 percent in the last decade, Breaking Defense reported Monday. “Our adversaries are very well […]
