Kevin Mulvihill, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, will deliver the opening keynote address at the 2024 5G Forum.   As a seasoned government civilian leader for the DoD, Mr. Mulvihill’s insights will be paramount to the government’s 5G/next-generation communications missions.   Learn more about his journey to becoming a part of the 2024 5G Forum.   An Introduction to Kevin Mulvihill   In November 2023, Kevin Mulvihill was permanently appointed as the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Command, Control ..read more

Federal research agencies should develop processes that would enable them to communicate to lawmakers and other stakeholders their need for investments in research and development infrastructure, according to a new report prepared by the National Science and Technology Council. The report, which the White House published Thursday, goes on to recommend that agencies specify the impacts that a lack of RDI investment would have on mission execution, and provide documentation concerning RDI investment needs, such as costs and agency priorities. The recommendation is one of several that the report ..read more

Military Sealift Command christened its newest Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base ship built by General Dynamics‘ NASSCO division at a ceremony held Saturday in San Diego, California, DVIDS reported. The USNS Robert E. Simanek (ESB-7) is the seventh ship in MSC’s expeditionary mobile base fleet and the third expeditionary staging base model designed to support various military missions, including mine countermeasures, special operations, counter-piracy, crisis response and humanitarian aid. ESB-7 is the first naval ship named after Robert Simanek, a Korean War veteran and a Medal of ..read more

Last week, Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed with an average of $4923.43, an increase of 0.88% from the previous week. GovCon Index is an aggregate index that gathers data from 30 major government contracting enterprises in real time. With this information, users are able to evaluate the performance of each tracked company and make their own assessments of the current financial state of the expansive GovCon marketplace.  With an increase of close to 7.98%, Leidos was last week’s top gainer. The company was followed by Tetra Tech, which rose by 7.34%. Boeing (+6.99%) and AeroViro ..read more

The National Security Agency, the FBI, and the State Department have released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning against a North Korea-linked cyberthreat group that exploits weak domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance, or DMARC, policies. The CSA outlines techniques used by Kimsuky threat actors to exploit improperly configured DMARC record policies to carry out spearphishing campaigns, disguising themselves as legitimate academics, journalists or other experts in East Asian affairs to gather intelligence on geopolitical events and foreign policy strategies, NSA sai ..read more

The Department of Defense, NASA and the General Services Administration have proposed a rule that would prohibit executive agencies from buying certain electronic goods and services that include covered semiconductor products and services. According to a notice published Friday in the Federal Register, the proposed rule seeks to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation to implement a section of the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. The prohibition will take effect on Dec. 23, 2027.  Covered semiconductors include those from entities that are either owned or controlled b ..read more

Microsoft has expanded the scope of the company’s Secure Future Initiative to integrate the lessons learned from the Midnight Blizzard cyber incident and recommendations from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board concerning the Storm-0558 cyberattack. The expanded SFI approach will be guided by three security principles: secure by design, secure by default and secure operations, Charlie Bell, executive vice president of Microsoft Security, wrote in a blog post published Friday. A report released by CSRB in late March recommends that Microsoft develop and publicly disc ..read more

The public may lose faith in financial markets, services and products if guardrails are not put in place that would defend against vulnerabilities brought about by artificial intelligence, which has been used by the financial industry for over two decades, according to a recent report by the Technology Advisory Committee within the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The purpose of the report is to help the public understand how AI might impact financial markets, the CFTC said Thursday. The TAC described AI as “a potentially valuable tool to improve automated processes governing core functio ..read more

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin discussed the Department of the Air Force’s plan to reoptimize the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force for great power competition, particularly the establishment of Integrated Capabilities Command. In February, senior department leaders unveiled the reoptimization initiative, which covers 24 proposed changes classified into four core areas: develop people; generate readiness; project power; and develop capabilities. The Air Force said Friday ICC will combine disparate modernization initiatives across the service branch into a centralized structur ..read more

Morgan Adamski, director of the Cybersecurity Collaboration Center at the National Security Agency, has been appointed executive director of U.S. Cyber Command. She will assume her new position in June and help lead strategic initiatives to advance USCYBERCOM’s talent management, capabilities and partnerships, the command said Friday. Adamski is joining USCYBERCOM following a nearly 15-year career at the NSA where she served as deputy for strategic mission management within the Cybersecurity Directorate and head of the offensive cyber mission. In her current role, Adamski oversees collaboratio ..read more