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Executive Mosaic is honored to present Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense, as an inductee into the 2024 Wash100 — an annual list of public and private sector leaders who are at the forefront of trends and events shaping the government contracting activity. Vote for Hicks as your favorite GovCon leader as...

This year’s Wash100 Award popular vote contest is the most competitive yet and that’s just a fact — Executive Mosaic is receiving more votes than ever in the contest’s history. The friendly but high-stakes race is held amongst the winners of the award, which is given to the highest achievers in government contracting; those who are making...

The advent of easy-to-use tools like ChatGPT has entrenched generative artificial intelligence into the public consciousness. With its vast array of potential applications, generative AI holds immense potential for a wide variety of domains. Like many other organizations, the Department of Defense is evaluating the effectiveness of this technology ...

It’s week two of our Wash100 Award popular vote recaps and the race is heating up fast. Two new players have entered the top 30, one catapulting himself to a spot just outside the top 10. Seven other awardees ascended to a higher spot over the course of the last week, rallying their fanbases to step...

As the Department of Defense pursues next-generation capabilities and technological dominance on the battlefield, speed and agility in the research, development, testing and evaluation process has become a top priority. The DOD’s Strategic Capabilities Office is one organization taking that imperative to heart and working to meet warfighter needs ...

The Defense Innovation Unit is entering a new phase and occupying a unique new role within the defense technology ecosystem. In April 2023, former Apple executive Doug Beck became DIU’s newest director, and DIU was elevated back to its historic position of reporting directly to the secretary of defense. DIU’s new chapter, dubbed “DIU 3.0,” ...

Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2024 Wash100 Award recipient, said the Pentagon had taken a warfighter-centric approach to innovation to enable the rapid delivery of combat capabilities to U.S. forces worldwide. “Along the way, we’ve never wavered from our ultimate objective: delivering safe and reliab...

Executive Mosaic, the preeminent media, events and membership organization of the government contracting sector, is proud to announce the winners of the prestigious 2024 Wash100 Award. Each year, Executive Mosaic’s coveted Wash100 Award recognizes the most promising and outstanding executives to watch in the coming year. Read below for the full l...

Geopolitical tensions and developments are shaping the defense technology landscape, and the Pentagon is adapting its priorities to meet emerging and increasingly urgent warfighter needs. As adversarial activity rises, United States defense officials are focusing on these five areas, among others, to advance the country’s technological capabilitie...

The U.S. Department of Defense famously established the Joint Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office in 2022 to formally indicate their commitment to embracing AI. But the Pentagon hasn’t stopped there — in the nearly year and a half since the CDAO’s creation, defense officials have demonstrated a persistent interest in implementing — an...