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Major news for Defense Contractors! The CMMC Final Rule (CFR 32) has entered its last phase before publication, setting up the formal third-party assessment system. All public comments have been addressed, and the CMMC final rule is projected to be published in the Federal Register around September-October this year. Following publication, there will be a 60-day period before it goes into effect. From early 2024 to March 2025, assessors will begin conducting CMMC assessments and certifications at full speed. The DFARS clause (48 CFR) adding an audit and certification requirement for contract awards will likely go into effect around March 2025. For DoD contractors, now is the time to prepare for audits, Preparation typically take 9 to 18 months. Don't risk interruptions in your ability to obtain and keep DoD contracts. Has this convinced your leadership that CMMC is real? If you're scrambling, consider solutions that provide a clear path to compliance. Quatronics guides companies on what to do, how to do it, and when to stay compliant. Act now to maintain your DoD contracts without disruption.

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Last month, I had the opportunity to meet with Phil Howard and discuss submarines, leadership, transition, military life, and modular data centers. Please listen in and let me know what you think! Do you have any questions? Infrastructure Masons Compass Datacenters US Navy Navy League of the United States United States Submarine Veterans Naval Submarine League DatacenterDynamics Data Center Frontier Data Center Knowledge Data Centre Magazine #veterans #HPC #submarines #modulardatacenters

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#CommunityOfCommunities !! I'm all in helping everyone and anyone understand and harness the 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 of using AI with software and systems engineering and knowing the 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀. We all need to go in "𝗲𝘆𝗲𝘀-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲-𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻". #ArchAITecture #SoftwareEngineering #CyberPhysical #IndustrialDevOps

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In this article, SolarWinds GVP of Engineering Krishna Sai explores how AI, ML, and observability can help SOCOM and other DoD agencies achieve a multi-domain infrastructure that is interoperable, dependable, transparent, secure, and high performing. Read more in C4ISRNET here: https://bit.ly/3VZypTk

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I loved having Jake Singleton, USSF on the podcast! Clearly digital modernization requires changing how people, culture, processes, and technology work together to create improved products and outcomes. But in government, procurement processes are foundational to changing those outcomes. Modular/agile contracting can help, and is revolutionary, but on this podcast you get to see the possibility of international partnerships. I hope you listen in!

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Three words I use when describing my company's #DigitalEnginerering solution, ReadyOne: award - winning, rapid, and transformative. Visit SAIC at #SMD2024 to learn how ReadyOne can level up your digital engineering journey.

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Ansys, along with other EDA partners, are making a corporate commitment to onshoring electronics and expertise for DoD use. https://lnkd.in/eTR3wMFf

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“Testing is the engine of progress.” Mission success demands relentless testing that generates crucial data overlaid with engineering judgment. At Nominal, we empower your mission-critical projects with a modern, unified industrial data stack. Accelerate your test campaigns—overcome stagnation caused by outdated tools.

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G2 Ops, Inc. is thrilled to announce a significant milestone in our ongoing work with the U.S. Navy. Our Embedded Cyber Resiliency (ECR) tool suite has been actively supporting the Navy’s Situational Awareness, Boundary Enforcement & Response (SABER) system, a critical solution for enhancing cybersecurity on Navy surface ships. The ECR suite enables rapid and automated cybersecurity analytics, security control mapping, and much more—making it a game-changer for protecting complex systems and improving mission resiliency. This achievement, backed by $59.6M in Phase III funding, showcases the powerful impact of digital transformation on cybersecurity. It also highlights how G2 Ops is helping the Navy create an efficient and unified data environment that proactively addresses cyber threats. We’re incredibly proud to contribute to the next generation of cybersecurity solutions for the Navy, and we’re excited for what’s next! #Cybersecurity #Innovation #DigitalTransformation #Resiliency #Navy #CyberDefense #G2Ops

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I am pleased to share that AV will acquire BlueHalo. The combined company will be poised to usher in the next era of defense technology. We are thrilled to welcome the talented BlueHalo team as we unite our strengths, expand our global impact and drive growth and value creation for AV shareholders.   This milestone would not be possible without the unwavering efforts and continued dedication to our mission from the entire AV team.    View the full release here: https://lnkd.in/dFZckqZT

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I’ve been thinking about the concept of “Decision Advantage”, a term that came up several times at AUVSI — Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International Defense. According to Booz Allen, “achieving decision advantage requires greatly accelerated tasking, collecting, processing, exploiting, and dissemination of operationally useful information”.   This is extraordinarily challenging even when centralized command and control can be applied but let’s consider decision advantage in the context of autonomous warfare.  Specifically let’s consider decision advantage in the context of a “drone swarm” as envisioned by military planners paying attention to events in Ukraine ... and in the Gulf. Ukraine has demonstrated the ability to mass produce small, cheap and “disposable” drones. The history of war will tell you that mass attacks by many small forces can overwhelm a few large, sophisticated and even powerful forces (see the Bismark story in the WWII).  In context of Ukraine these small forces are relatively uncoordinated – although they may all be pre-programmed and / or individually controlled, true collaboration between autonomous devices has yet to be achieved. The ability for a “collection” of devices to receive, process, react to in-mission information and to collaboratively “decide” on an action / reaction (without ground control intervention) has not been demonstrated, at least at scale. This is the autonomous endgame. As one speaker at AUVSI put it – “whoever networks the swarm, wins”. We have some way to go to achieve this level of capability .. particularly in the context of data. The swarm generates masses of data internally and acquires data from external sources. This data must be received distributed, analyzed and acted upon, in concert, by the swarm. Leaving aside communication channels and distributed compute, we have to manage data across the swarm such that the right data is in the right place, at the right time, in the right format and it can be trusted.  Here’s one simple truth – a cloud first, centralized approach to edge data management is doomed to fail in this scenario – potentially catastrophically. #AUV #autonomouswarfare #droneswarm #defense #collaborativecombat

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Our new partnership with Elon Musk's SpaceX's Starlink segment highlights enterprises that face scalability concerns and reliability issues as key potential customers. "As the first major network provider to collaborate with Starlink, we're excited to uniquely enhance our extensive managed connectivity portfolio with advanced satellite capabilities to better serve our enterprise customers." - Comcast Business Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Operations Jon Friedman Learn more about this exciting Comcast news here. #satellite #enterprisesolutions #internet #comcastbusiness #iworkforcomcast

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Reducing latency from 2 Seconds to the time it takes to blink. Last week Meritalk released an article on DISA's plan to roll Thunderdome out to 60 sites through FY2024.  You may ask why this is important?  Why should anyone care? This matters because Thunderdome is likely to be one of the most impactful cybersecurity programs in DoD history.  All while America’s adversaries are the most aggressive they’ve ever been.  Why does Thunderdome matter? Through Thunderdome, the DOD is significantly increasing security, lowering costs, and massively improving the user experience all at the same time.  The perfect trifecta.  Imagine being a user and waiting for web response times in excess of 2 seconds. It's 2024, Thunderdome fixes this, globally. Direct benefits: -Direct Access to the NIPRnet from anywhere in the world -Users access SaaS services directly through the service connections, bypassing the JRSS stacks -Improves existing remote access latency from 2s to <10ms -Provides full ZTNA capabilities (conditional access) and full continuous monitoring of all traffic, users, and devices -Aligns on premises ZT policies with remote users This matters and brings DoD connectivity into more modern times while increasing conditional based access and security. It's faster, less expensive, and more secure. https://lnkd.in/eDp3ykX7 #meritalk #disa #CISO #ZT #zerotrust #DoD #defensedepartment

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The Alliance for Commercial Technology in Government was honored to join in an unprecedented alliance with Software in Defense Coalition, Alliance for Digital Innovation, and National Venture Capital Association, to respond to US Army's so-called "Modern Software Development Multiple Award IDIQ RFI". Given the major progress towards enticing commercial vendors and investors to contribute to the the US defense industrial base by the likes of Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), AFWERX, Space Development Agency, Office of Strategic Capital, and congress's excellent initiatives with DIU's Hedge Portfolio, APFIT, RIF, RCCTO, etc., out comes this "modern" software development strategy right out of the 1950's that literally PRIORITIZES Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) contracting over commercial product purchases. We're living in Bizarro World. Seems like the Army's stinging loss in Palantir's 2017 lawsuit hasn't taught the acquisition force a thing about their legally mandated (and inarguably wise) preference for commercial items found in 10 USC 3453 and FAR Part 10. For those not paying attention for the last 5 or 6 years: - Commercial purchases of existing software products under commercial terms is far and away the best acquisition option because the product is already finished, all the risk is taken out, someone else paid for it, a bunch of other people are subsidizing the maintenance, and the firm fixed commercial price the DoD might pay is a fraction of the cost to build it. It is also built by companies who only make profit when the cost to build and operate the software is minimized, focusing them on the highest quality and most economical software development techniques. Besides all that it's legally mandatory. - The second best option is custom modification of commercial items under Firm Fixed Price milestone delivery contracts for all the same reasons as above -The third best option is paying software developers Firm Fixed Price milestone deliverables for software development from scratch. This method rewards the contractor for finishing as fast and as cost-effectively as possible. - The fourth best is paying developers Firm Fixed Price hourly time and materials. At least in this mechanism the contractor is rewarded for lowering the cost of each hour of labor within the commercial hourly rate. This method still unfortunately rewards maximizing the number of hours it takes to finish the software and maximizing the maintenance labor. - The worst possible model is Cost Plus Fixed Fee, where the contractor is rewarded for maximizing the cost of the labor hour, maximizing how long it takes to finish the product, and maximizing the maintenance cost. This incentive structure also penalizes the replacement of custom labor with commercial items that are already finished and less expensive. This is literally insane. https://lnkd.in/es5Nkhvs

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Why Hawaii is the Perfect Home for the OnRamp Hub Hawaii’s strategic position in the Indo-Pacific region is unparalleled. As the United States continues its commitment to maintaining a free and independent Indo-Pacific, Hawaii sits at the tip of the spear—a vital crossroads for defense, diplomacy, and innovation. Beyond its geographic significance, Hawaii boasts the largest concentration of senior military officials outside of Washington, D.C., unique with 4-Star representation and operational command structures located within “uber-driving distance” of each other. This accessibility fosters seamless collaboration between government, military, and private sector leaders to address the region’s diverse challenges and opportunities. The Indo-Pacific is not just a focus area for today but a decisive region for the foreseeable future. With shifting geopolitical dynamics and growing economic interconnectivity, the importance of maintaining a robust U.S. presence and fostering partnerships has never been greater. By placing the OnRamp Hub in Hawaii, we’re aligning critical innovation capabilities with the region that needs them most—offering tailored solutions, rapid implementation, and unmatched access to military and civilian leaders. Hawaii is not just strategically placed—it’s strategically essential. Get ready to witness some of the transformative initiatives we have in store! The OnRamp Hub is poised to deliver groundbreaking solutions that will drive progress, strengthen partnerships, and secure the future of the Indo-Pacific. Stay tuned—this is just the beginning. #IndoPacific #Innovation #Defense #OnRampHub #Leadership #StrategicPositioning Defense Innovation OnRamp Hubs Defense Innovation OnRamp Hub: Hawaii

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In this article, SolarWinds GVP of Engineering Krishna Sai explores how AI, ML, and observability can help SOCOM and other DoD agencies achieve a multi-domain infrastructure that is interoperable, dependable, transparent, secure, and high performing. Read more in C4ISRNET here: https://bit.ly/3VZypTk #observability #performance #interoperability

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