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  • Cyber

    August 2023

    Defense Department Needs A Data-Centric Digital Security Organization

    There has been a clear need for the Defense Department to attract, develop and retain a top-notch cyber workforce, as it will play a key role in protecting the country from cyber threats and adversaries.
  • Cyber

    August 2023

    JUST IN: Pentagon Desperately Seeking Cyber Workers

    The Defense Department, like the United States as a whole, is facing a massive shortfall of cyber talent to the tune of 24 percent below current need, and the department is hoping its new cyber workforce strategy implementation plan will close the gap in the coming years.
  • Electronics

    July 2023

    JUST IN: U.S. Semiconductor Industry Could Face Tech Worker Crisis by 2030

    By Cambrie Eckert
    By 2030, the United States is projected to face a shortage of 67,100 technicians, computer scientists and engineers throughout the semiconductor industry and 1.4 million across the U.S. economy, according to a new study.
  • Defense Contracting

    July 2023

    Aerospace, Defense Industries Struggling To Attract Talent

    PARIS — Whether it is in Europe or the United States, companies in the aerospace and defense sectors are facing a wave of retiring workers and struggling to attract skilled personnel to take their place, according to the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
  • Defense Contracting

    June 2023

    Federal Circuit Weighs In on Bid Protest Standing

    By Andrew Guy and Kayleigh Scalzo
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit May 10 issued a decision regarding bid protest standing in CACI, Inc.-Federal v. United States et al. In that decision, the court declared previous decisions to no longer be good law and held that the United States Court of Federal Claims erred in finding the protester to lack standing.
  • Defense Contracting

    June 2023

    A More Nuanced Look at the ‘Valley of Death’

    HONOLULU — “Psalm 23” is most likely the origin of the term “Valley of Death” used in the defense acquisition world.
  • Defense Contracting

    May 2023

    Increased Climate Disclosure Burden Coming for Contractors

    By Chanda Brown , Alex Hastings and Bob Huffman
    Federal contractors are awaiting issuance of new procurement regulations targeted at ensuring public disclosure of greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions and climate-related financial risk and also setting science-based GHG reduction targets.
  • Special Operations

    May 2023

    Putting the Right Special Ops Tech in the Right Hands

    By James H Smith
    A few decades ago, I went through the Army’s Ranger School — okay, maybe several decades ago. One of the most important lessons I learned is that every operation starts with a good plan and, conversely, it’s hard to recover from a bad plan.
  • Defense Contracting

    April 2023

    IT2EC NEWS: For Some Vendors, Defense Conferences, Contracts Are Gravy

    ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Defense industry conventions can be high stakes events for vendors hoping to attract military customers. Companies at the IT2EC conference set up booths full of exotic training simulators, augmented and virtual reality devices, video screens showing battlefield movements and other high-tech training and simulation systems that have few or no commercial applications or buyers.
  • Defense Contracting

    April 2023

    Will 2023 Be an Inflection Point for CFIUS?

    By David N. Fagan , Brian Kim and Jonathan R. Wakely
    On the heels of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions and U.S.-China tensions over Taiwan, 2022 accelerated a sweeping effort within the U.S. government to make national security considerations — especially with respect to China — a key feature of new and existing regulatory processes.
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