DIU Taps Into Chicago Tech Industry With New Innovation Office; Michael Brown Quoted
The Defense Innovation Unit will open a new facility in Chicago in an attempt to gain access to the state’s commercial technology ecosystem to support military and national security innovation....
Pentagon Launches Innovation Pathways Website; Kathleen Hicks Quoted
The Department of Defense has unveiled a new website that would enable DOD to bring in new technologies and other novel concepts from industry and universities. “The Innovation Pathways website...
Maxar Reports $202M in Government Mission Support Contracts; Dan Jablonsky Quoted
Maxar Technologies announced on Monday that the company was awarded up to $202 million in mission support contracts with the U.S. government in the first quarter of 2022. The total...
Tonya Wilkerson: NGA Works With Non-Federal Entities to Nurture STEM, GEOINT Talent Pipelines
Tonya Wilkerson, deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, said at a recent symposium that NGA partnered with non-federal entities to develop future science,...
AF Secretary Frank Kendall on Acquisition Best Practices, Space Capabilities
Frank Kendall, secretary of the Air Force and a three-time Wash100 Award winner, said he is reinstituting certain best practices for acquisition he had introduced under the Better Buying 2.0....
BigBear.ai Appoints Carolyn Blankenship as General Counsel; GovCon Expert Reggie Brothers Quoted
BigBear.ai announced on Tuesday that Carolyn Blankenship, formerly of Thomson Reuters, has been appointed the new general counsel and secretary to develop and lead the company’s corporate legal overall growth...
DHS Finishes First Phase of Bug Bounty Program; Alejandro Mayorkas Quoted
The Department of Homeland Security has concluded the first phase of its inaugural Hack DHS bug bounty program, with $125,600 in prizes awarded to successful cybersecurity researchers. The DHS said...
CISA Names Bob Lord as Senior Technical Adviser; Director Jen Easterly Quoted
Bob Lord, who served as the first chief security officer at the Democratic National Committee, will join the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as a senior technical adviser within CISA’s...
GSA Introduces Online Platform to Help Federal Agencies Plan Acquisition Journey
The General Services Administration has unveiled a website designed to simplify the federal acquisition planning process for agencies and enable industry to facilitate the delivery of services and supplies to...
Vice Adm. Robert Sharp: NGA to Call on Industry for ‘GEOINT AI’ Program Support
Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and a two-time Wash100 Award winner, said in his keynote speech at the GEOINT 2022 Symposium the agency plans to...
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