Nielsen: Government Needs Industry to Help Address Growing Cyber Threats
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Nielsen: Government Needs Industry to Help Address Growing Cyber Threats


Nielsen: Government Needs Industry to Help Address Growing Cyber Threats

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the federal government needs the private sector to detect and deter emerging cyber threats, The Hill reported Tuesday.

During the agency’s recent Science and Technology Directorate’s Cybersecurity and Innovation Showcase, Nielsen highlighted that the rates of threats and risks are outpacing the government’s ability to identify, assess and address them. Nielsen said the growing risks in cyberspace also increase the government’s need to partner with companies to prepare for future cyber attacks.

“We’re focused on today’s threats, we’re coming down on yesterday’s threats, but we want to make sure we can rise and stand and know what’s coming at us,” she said. “And that’s what we ask you to help us do.” 

Nielsen also noted the use of connected devices adds to DHS concerns that may put the government at a higher risk of interference. She said the number of such devices linked to the internet could reach 75 billion by 2025.

“So it’s not a matter of if an attack happens or when, but it’s how long can we withstand it and how can we innovate while we are under attack,” Nielsen said.

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Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic, Presents John Goodman, CEO of Accenture Federal Services, His Second Consecutive Wash100 Award
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Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic, Presents John Goodman, CEO of Accenture Federal Services, His Second Consecutive Wash100 Award


Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic, Presents John Goodman, CEO of Accenture Federal Services, His Second Consecutive Wash100 Award

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented John Goodman, CEO of Accenture Federal Services, with his second consecutive Wash100 Award on March 6th.

Executive Mosaic recognizes Goodman for his work advancing digital technologies and intelligence distributed systems. We are happy to present the most coveted award in government contracting to John Goodman of Accenture Federal Services.

Goodman joined Accenture as an associate partner in 1998. He held several senior positions including managing director and the Army and joint defense account lead. He later became the managing director of the management consulting lead for the global public service operating group in 2006 and the managing director of the company’s defense portfolio. Since 2012, Goodman has continued to serve as the chief operating officer of the company and became a chief executive in 2017.

In addition, Goodman is a member of the board of directors on the Northern Virginia Technology Council, Atlantic Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the immediate past chair of the executive committee for the Professional Services Council.

Goodman was named the 2018 Executive of the Year by the Greater Washington Government Contractors and was the 2015 Fed100 Award winner. He received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service and the DoD Medal for Outstanding Public Service.

Goodman earned his bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Middlebury College and his master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

The Wash100 award, in its sixth annual year, recognizes the most influential and impactful executives in the GovCon industry, as selected by the Executive Mosaic organization in combination with web nominations from the GovCon community. Representing the best of the private and public sector, the winners demonstrate superior leadership, innovation, reliability, achievement and vision.

Visit the Wash100 website to learn about the other 99 winners of the 2019 Wash100 Award. On the website, you can submit your 10 votes for the GovCon executives of consequence that you believe will have the most significant impact in 2019.

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NAWCAD Delivers F-35B Weapons Loader Adapters to Marine Corps; David Page Quoted
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NAWCAD Delivers F-35B Weapons Loader Adapters to Marine Corps; David Page Quoted


NAWCAD Delivers F-35B Weapons Loader Adapters to Marine Corps; David Page Quoted

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s Lakehurst Airborne Weapons Support Equipment branch developed a weapons loader and an adapter to boost the F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft’s loading capabilities. The GBU-49 loader is designed to assist the F-35B attack moving ground-based targets while an adapter attachment allows the aircraft to carry and deploy smart bombs, the U.S. Navy said Tuesday.

The team also customized an adapter unit to attach the GBU-49 to the Single Hoist Ordnance Loading System which serves as the main munition loading platform for aircraft weapons stations.

“For those airplanes that their missions are to fly ordnance, it’s our equipment that allows those 18-year-olds out there on pitching carrier decks to safely handle thousands of pounds of weapons, bring them up to an aircraft and load them up in a short time, both day and night,” said David Page, program head at NAWCAD’s Lakehurst AWSE branch.

The service branch completed the development, testing and production processes within nine months and delivered the adapters to the U.S. Marine Corps in November 2018.

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Stephen Dickson to be Nominated FAA Administrator, DOT Air Traffic Chairman
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Stephen Dickson to be Nominated FAA Administrator, DOT Air Traffic Chairman


Stephen Dickson to be Nominated FAA Administrator, DOT Air Traffic Chairman

President Trump intends to nominate Stephen Dickson, a former senior vice president for flight operations at Delta Air Lines, as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration for five years and chairman of the Department of Transportation’s air traffic services committee.

Dickson is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and flew the B737, B727, B757, B767 and F-15 aircraft units during his tenure at the service branch, the White House said Tuesday. He chaired federal advisory organizations and industry stakeholder groups and pushed for commercial air safety initiatives.

Dickson is a graduate of the Georgia State University and a member of the 1979 class of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

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Steven Walker: DARPA Developing Cyber Deterrence, Hypersonics, AI Programs
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Steven Walker: DARPA Developing Cyber Deterrence, Hypersonics, AI Programs

Steven Walker: DARPA Developing Cyber Deterrence, Hypersonics, AI Programs

Steven Walker, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, discussed some of DARPA programs at the Defense Programs Conference, the Department of Defense website reported Tuesday. Walker said some of the capabilities that DARPA is developing to defend the country from existential threats and near-peer adversaries include cyber deterrence, tactical-boost guide program and hypersonic weapons.

“It’s been widely reported in the press that our adversaries and peer competitors — China and Russia and others — are developing capabilities, so what we’re doing at DARPA is hypersonics weapon programs with the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a glider that can be air-launched from several different Air Force platforms,” he said at the event hosted by McAleese and Associates and Credit Suisse.

“It has long-range capability. We hope to fly the first one by the end of this calendar year,” he added. Walker also mentioned DARPA’s work on artificial intelligence. “We’re also planning to bring AI into the game and have this constellation be able to focus based on passing data from one satellite to the next on various missions and we’ll see if it works,” he said.

The Wash100 award, now in its sixth year, recognizes the most influential executives in the GovCon industry as selected by the Executive Mosaic team in tandem with online nominations from the GovCon community. Representing the best of the private and public sector, the winners demonstrate superior leadership, innovation, reliability, achievement and vision.

Visit the Wash100 site to learn about the other 99 winners of the 2019 Wash100 Award. On the site, you can submit your 10 votes for the GovCon executives of consequence that you believe will have the most significant impact in 2019.

 

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James Mattis Named Davies Family Distinguished Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution
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James Mattis Named Davies Family Distinguished Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution


James Mattis Named Davies Family Distinguished Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution

James Mattis, former secretary of the Department of Defense and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been named Davies Family Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, effective May 1. Mattis plans to focus his research on domestic and international security policy and participate in military and national security-related programs and events at Hoover sites in California and Washington, D.C., the institution said Tuesday.

“The wealth of knowledge and experience of an already extraordinary career has been made even richer by General Mattis’ latest endeavor as Secretary of Defense, and we are fortunate to once again be beneficiaries of his acumen,” said Tom Gilligan, director of the Hoover Institution.

Mattis was named Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Hoover in 2013 and became Davies Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in 2015. He is also a former member of the institution’s Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict. 

Prior to becoming DoD secretary, Mattis served as Marine Corps general and led troops during his four-decade career as an infantry Marine. He also served as DoD executive secretary and as senior military assistant to the deputy secretary of defense.
 

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Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic, Presents Tony Frazier, President of Radiant Solutions, His Fourth Wash100 Award
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Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic, Presents Tony Frazier, President of Radiant Solutions, His Fourth Wash100 Award


Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic, Presents Tony Frazier, President of Radiant Solutions, His Fourth Wash100 Award

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Tony Frazier, president of Radiant Solutions, with his fourth Wash100 Award on Tuesday.

Executive Mosaic recognizes Frazier for leading the company’s efforts to support government missions with emerging technology. We are honored to present the most coveted award in government contracting to Tony Frazier of Radiant Solutions.

Tony Frazier joined Radiant Solutions as president in Oct 2017 to lead all lines of business and functional areas across the business unit. He’s also held senior leadership positions with various organizations since 1992, including GeoEye, Cisco, IBM, iPhrase Technologies and Bain & Company.

He’s also worked for DigitalGlobe since 2013 and serves as the senior vice president and general manager of services for the company. Frazier earned a bachelor’s of system engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School in 1997.

The Wash100 award, now in its sixth year, recognizes the most influential executives in the GovCon industry as selected by the Executive Mosaic team in tandem with online nominations from the GovCon community. Representing the best of the private and public sector, the winners demonstrate superior leadership, innovation, reliability, achievement and vision.

Visit the Wash100 site to learn about the other 99 winners of the 2019 Wash100 Award. On the site, you can submit your 10 votes for the GovCon executives of consequence that you believe will have the most significant impact in 2019.

DHS Science Directorate Considers Collaboration With Cybersecurity Agency to Overcome Budget Cuts
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DHS Science Directorate Considers Collaboration With Cybersecurity Agency to Overcome Budget Cuts


DHS Science Directorate Considers Collaboration With Cybersecurity Agency to Overcome Budget Cuts

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate is planning to collaborate with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in light of looming cuts to the directorate’s $840M budget proposal for 2020, FCW reported Tuesday.

Officials noted that the potential 30 percent budget decrease may result in greater collaboration CISA and S&T initiatives. The two departments have already begun combining their efforts in select areas. 

William Bryan, a senior official now serving as undersecretary for science and technology, said his office is planning to merge an S&T technology exposition with another CISA event.

“In the last 18 months under Bill Bryan’s leadership, we have been increasing coordination and integration of S&T and CISA,” said Chris Krebs, director of CISA.

The DHS budget request noted that S&T implemented a new organizational structure in 2018 aimed at accelerating the transition of technologies to operational capabilities.

DARPA Unveils Social Media Platform to Boost Research Efforts
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DARPA Unveils Social Media Platform to Boost Research Efforts

DARPA Unveils Social Media Platform to Boost Research Efforts

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a new social media platform designed to help the public, industry and the government engage real-time in research and development efforts.

DARPA unveiled Polyplexus on Tuesday that gives access to scientific evidence and accelerates information sharing for research proposal generation and research sponsor engagement. The platform features a public information feed where users can promote topics, a private tool for analyzing new ideas and an incubator environment for government and industry research sponsors to locate specialists.Â

“Polyplexus maintains a balance between public information exchange and protection of private intellectual property,” said John Main, program manager in the DARPA Defense Sciences Office. “It also creates an avenue for broader participation in DARPA research and development, including by those who aren’t looking for a research project but who have knowledge to contribute, such as retirees.”

The science office will select 30 research efforts from Polyplexus incubators over the next 18 months. Recipients can funding of up to $100,000 each. DARPA said it already selected three incubators on quantum machine learning, human learning and strategic technological surprise for the initial funding.Â

 

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Army Initiates Manned-Unmanned Rotorcraft Demonstrations
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Army Initiates Manned-Unmanned Rotorcraft Demonstrations


Army Initiates Manned-Unmanned Rotorcraft Demonstrations

The U.S. Army began a demonstration of cooperative operations between manned and unmanned rotary aircraft, Flight Global reported Thursday.

The Advanced Teaming Demonstration Program began on March 14 and aims to test a new technology designed to facilitate manned-unmanned coordination.

The technology is geared for use with a scout rotorcraft, a medium-lift utility rotorcraft and a drone that are part of the service branch’s Future Vertical Lift program. These are the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft and the Advanced Unmanned Aircraft System.

The Army intends to allocate funding for more manned-unmanned support systems in June 2019.

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