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is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
Rikki Singh, an associate partner at McKinsey & Co., said the management consulting firm launched a program in May to train and upskill product managers through an eight-part speaker series featuring product leaders. She said there will be 3 to 5 million new program managers worldwide by 2025 and the company believes upskilling and empowering […] More
U.K.-based Reaction Engines has kicked off testing of its high-Mach propulsion system under a contract with the Department of Defense. The company said Thursday it started the testing campaign as part of the Foreign Comparative Testing Program, which seeks to discover, test and evaluate foreign technologies that could meet U.S. defense technical needs and emerging […] More
A new report from the AI for the Planet Alliance, Boston Consulting Group and BCG Gamma has found that 87 percent of leaders from public and private sectors believe that artificial intelligence is a critical tool in countering climate change. BCG said Thursday the report, which was based on a May survey of more than […] More
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded other transaction contracts to Anduril Industries, Aalyria, Atlas and Enveil for a program that seeks to demonstrate a hybrid architecture that would allow government, military and commercial space assets to provide data communications worldwide. DIU said Thursday it is collaborating with the U.S. Space Force and the Air Force […] More
The Department of Defense is supporting 5G testing and experimentation projects at military installations through a $600 million program and the satellite industry is keeping an eye on such experiments and how DOD would further advance 5G amid the increasing integration of non-terrestrial networks into the 5G ecosystem, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Rick Lober, vice president […] More
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has announced the launch of a new initiative to advance agency efforts meant to address threats and risks posed by quantum computing to data and critical infrastructure. The Post-Quantum Cryptography Initiative will build on programs at the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Standards and Technology […] More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the first batch of four encryption algorithms designed to resist an attack from a future quantum computer that could potentially break the security codes used to safeguard email software, online banking and other digital platforms. NIST said Tuesday the encryption tools will become part of the […] More
A new governing council has been established within the Department of Defense’s newly created chief digital and artificial intelligence office and John Zangardi, president and CEO of Redhorse, discussed how the four-star level body will impact mission execution within DOD. FedScoop reported the new governing council within CDAO will replace the three-star level AI executive […] More
AI SpaceFactory and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida have released their design for their proposed 3D-printed lunar outpost called LINA. The company said Thursday design work on LINA is being carried out under NASA’s 2020 Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity project called Relevant Environment Additive Construction Technology. AI SpaceFactory is the previous winner of NASA’s […] More
Viktar Zherdetski, chief technology officer at Anika Systems, said that as government customers get more comfortable with the use of automation systems, they are seeing new opportunities how they can automate routine tasks, FedScoop reported Friday. Agency customers have started “seeing new opportunities like how they can automate their routine processes, day-to-day operations into something […] More
Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky business has unveiled latest photos of its prototype for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program, The War Zone reported Wednesday. Jay Macklin, business development director for Sikorsky Army Programs and Innovations, said the company’s Raider X aircraft prototype, which now comes with modular weapon launchers equipped with a 20mm main […] More
Government agencies are facing information technology workforce challenges when it comes to implementing cloud modernization efforts and Dave Levy, vice president of U.S. federal government, nonprofit and healthcare at Amazon Web Services, said AWS helps address that through free cloud computing skills training and other education programs, FedScoop reported Wednesday. “By 2025, AWS will help […] More
