Nearly 7 out of 10 Top 100 firms have no Black execs in the C-suite
Our annual analysis finds minority representation slipping and the diversity, equity and inclusion rollback may be just beginning to show up in the data. Six years into tracking diversity in the C-suite of Top 100 companies, one thing is clear: Progress has stalled for women and reversed for Black executives. We first analyzed the racial and […]
Army unveils first sketch of commercial tech contract for test, evaluation
Army officials are currently looking at separate product and services pools for this multiple-award vehicle. The Army has started its process of creating a new multiple-award contract vehicle that would function as a pathway for rapidly acquiring commercial technologies and services to aid in test and evaluation efforts. Currently being called Orchestra, Army officials are envisioning […]
Navy preps science-and-tech strategy built for speed and focus
Two service leaders in technology development spoke at the Defense One Tech Summit. A new Navy science-and-tech strategy will push technology to the fleet faster and concentrate limited research funds on problems that industry won’t solve on its own, the service’s research chief said Tuesday. The Office of Naval Research strategy, called “Feed S&T at Speed to […]
Jim Flyzik helped transform government IT from back-office function to mission enabler
The former Treasury chief information officer and early federal IT leader died June 4 at age 72. The federal government went through tremendous changes in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The Clinton Administration’s National Partnership for Reinventing Government to streamline processes and cut bureaucracy was one of them. Then there was the Y2K threat and […]
OpenAI’s ChatGPT to debut on GenAI.mil in ‘early July’
The company is working closely with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office to deliver more model access via GenAI.mil. Speaking during the Defense One Tech Summit in Virginia on Tuesday, Mohammed Husain — the Strategic Delivery Lead for Cyber at OpenAI — said the company is poised in early July to unveil its flagship chatbot […]
US counterintelligence agency looks to AI to accelerate background checks
A Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency official says advanced AI can cut parts of the vetting process from months to hours. The nation’s largest counterintelligence unit aims to use artificial intelligence tools to speed security clearance reviews for people and companies seeking to do sensitive work on behalf of the government. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security […]