DARPA Director Stefanie Tompkins Accepts 2024 Wash100 Award
Dr. Stefanie Tompkins, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, received her 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent meeting. Tompkins earned her third Wash100 award this year in recognition of spearheading the agency's collaboration with numerous stakeholders to modernize quantum computing capabilities and produce resilient artificial intelligence technologies to […]
Pentagon’s Zero Trust Director Randy Resnick Makes 2024 Wash100 List
Randy Resnick, director of the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office within the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, has been named to the 2024 Wash100 list for his work advancing and synchronizing zero trust efforts and initiatives across the DOD enterprise. This marks Resnick’s debut on Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list. Help Resnick win […]
Navy Awards Verizon Public Sector MWR Data Services Contract
The U.S. Navy is showing its commitment to technology modernization with a new task order with Verizon Public Sector. In December, the military branch awarded Verizon's government, education and public safety arm a $15 million task order with Navy Morale, Welfare and Recreation through the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract. The new order provides voice and […]
DOD Acquisitions Chief: Counter-UAS in High Demand, Requests Total 100K a Month
A Department of Defense official said that demand for counter-drone technology is as high as that for 155mm artillery shells. Speaking at a panel in a recent Reagan National Defense Forum, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante, a 2023 Wash100 awardee and a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, said the high […]
SDA Awards $224M PWSA Support Contract to QinetiQ; Shawn Purvis Quoted
The Space Development Agency has awarded QinetiQ US a five-year, $224 million systems engineering and technical assistance contract to support the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a low-Earth orbit satellite mesh network that will deliver secured communications and missile warning and tracking capabilities to the United States and its allies. Under the firm-fixed price contract, QinetiQ […]
Parsons To Acquire IPKeys Power Partners; Carey Smith Quoted
Parsons plans to acquire enterprise software platform solutions provider IPKeys Power Partners of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, for $43 million. Parsons President and CEO Carey Smith said they expect the transaction to refine the Centreville, Virginia-based company's portfolio of cloud-based cybersecurity and software products that protect critical infrastructure. It will also help expand Parson's customer […]
Air Force CIO Lauren Knausenberger Wins 2023 Wash100 for Notable Strides in Technology Modernization, Future Vision
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to present the 2023 Wash100 Award to Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer at the Department of the Air Force. Knausenberger earned this distinction for her efforts to keep the DAF aligned with rapidly evolving technological progress and instituting practices to ensure that tools and the network are more accessible and reliable for airmen […]
Technology Modernization Fund Invests in AbilityOne’s Procurement List Software Enhancement; Clare Martorana Quoted
The U.S. AbilityOne Commission will receive investment from the Technology Modernization Fund to upgrade its software that connects the federal government with employers of individuals who are blind or severely disabled. The General Services Administration said Monday the TMF investment will fund enhancements to the Procurement List Information Management System including improvements to system security […]
Heidi Shyu: DoD Keeps Abreast of Hypersonic Tech Despite Workforce Challenges
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense, said every service branch under DOD is developing hypersonics weapons in order to keep up with the accelerating pace of the technology's adoption by governments such as Russia and China. She told The Hill editor-in-chief Bob Cusack at a Raytheon Technologies-sponsored event Tuesday […]
Army Unveils Plan to Transform Into Data-Centric Organization; CIO Raj Iyer Quoted
The U.S. Army has released a plan that presents its approach to improving data management as part of efforts to become a data-centric organization. The Army Data Plan focuses on the warfighting mission area and reflects a three-year initiative that also seeks to improve data analytics and data governance, the service said Thursday. “Data and […]
DAF Migrates Over 6,000 Sites to Cloud-Based Collaboration Tool; Lauren Knausenberger Quoted
The Department of the Air Force has completed the migration of on-premises sites to a cloud-based productivity and collaboration platform as part of its modernization strategy. The DAF365 Enterprise Services, the department's Microsoft Office 365 collaboration platform, now hosts 6,823 Air Force sites migrated from SharePoint on-premises hosting and operations, the Air Force said Thursday. […]
DARPA Unveils Advanced Research Concepts Initiative; Director Stefanie Tompkins Quoted
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched an initiative to rapidly explore novel technology concepts that seek to address high-risk, high-reward “what if” questions. DARPA said Wednesday the Advanced Research Concepts initiative intends to invest in research that could be transitioned into new technologies for U.S. national security. The agency will open each […]
DON CIO Aaron Weis Signs Design Concept Outlining Information Superiority Objectives
Aaron Weis, the chief information officer of the Department of the Navy, has signed a design concept outlining an integrated framework to achieve digital modernization goals across the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The Capstone Design Concept for Information Superiority serves as an integrated framework for accomplishing DON's vision to move any information from anywhere […]
Kathleen Hicks Highlights Biomanufacturing’s Potential to Advance National Security
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said biotechnology and biomanufacturing innovation present transformative opportunities to advance national security efforts. Speaking at the White House Summit on Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing, Hicks unveiled the Pentagon’s commitment to invest more than $1 billion over the next five years to […]
William LaPlante: Pentagon Eyes Waiver to Get F-35 Production Moving Again
The Pentagon paused deliveries of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jet in late August after discovering that China-made alloys were used in magnets within the aircraft’s turbomachine. William LaPlante, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said he expects aircraft deliveries to resume again provided that […]