Activities in line with President Biden’s recent Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability – which calls for a holistic approach across all federal government agencies to achieve 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity usage and purchases by 2030 – are underway within the Department of...
John Sherman, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, has been named acting chief digital and artificial intelligence officer with oversight of DOD’s strategy and policy development efforts for data, AI and analytics. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks wrote in a Tuesday memo that the office of ...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said that DOD created an adaptation plan and a risk analysis document to comply with the White House’s executive order for all agencies to take action on climate change, DOD News reported Tuesday. “These reports will help guide the department...
Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force and a previous Wash100 Award winner, took her oath of office as the new chair of the Defense Business Board during a ceremony held Tuesday at the Pentagon. Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, swore in...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said DOD’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 will offer details on how the U.S. military will spend on efforts to mitigate climate change, Defense News reported Thursday. “We are definitely looking at that both in our strategy development efforts...
Thirteen lawmakers have expressed their support for Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) proposed acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) in their joint letter to Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense, Reuters reported Wednesday. Lockheed first announced its move to acquire the rocket propulsion maker for approximately ...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, reported on Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks speaking about the Department of Defense’s move to create a Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve to facilitate joint warfighting concept development competition across service branches. McAleese’s new rep...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, issued a memorandum that seeks to ensure U.S. competitive advantage by turning DOD into a data-centric organization, DOD News reported Monday. The May 5 memo with the subject Creating Data Advantage calls for the Pentagon to implement five data decrees,...
Barbara McQuiston, who is performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said the Department of Defense has established a steering group focused on innovation, Nextgov reported Tuesday. “We’re very lucky we just started the innovation steering group under Deputy Secretary [Kathleen] Hicks, and what we...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for her data prioritization efforts and policy advancements, which will ready the federal defense sector for the future of warfare. This marks Hicks’ first Wash100 Award. Hicks, a former Department of Defense (DOD) official, was co...
