Thought leaders don’t sit in ivory towers. They are active in their communities of practice, honing the art of their disciplines, discovering new uses for technology, and sharing knowledge. Seeking diversity of thought enhances the wisdom that already exists and results in thought leaders, not thought theorists.
SAIC’s Bob Ritchie, vice president of software, and Air Force Lt. Col. Todd Watson share Cloud One’s digital transformation highlights at Government Executive's Roadmap to Modernization event.
Growing worldwide commercialization and exploration of space significantly benefit every industry – from academia to government and defense. Part of this new space revolution is the increasing use and advancement of small satellites, or smallsats. Smallsats typically weigh 500 kilograms or less and have less mass than traditional satellites.
SAIC recently deployed IT support services to the County of Orange in California and its Operation Independence vaccination program. County of Orange created the program to help distribute COVID-19 vaccines to residents at a myriad of sites across the county, with the goal of vaccinating 2 million people by Independence Day.
NGA, NASA, U.S. Space Force, and Space Development Agency explore the future of space, and SAIC’s Jim Light joins Defense One for a post-panel discussion of how industry is helping government agencies achieve their objectives.
To say that 2020 was a disruptive year is quite an understatement. Tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs, almost 300,000 Americans lost their lives due to COVID-19, and political and racial divides grew deeper than many imagined.
An orchestra will not perform a sensational symphony if every musician does not do their part. Each group of instruments sounds well enough on their own, but it is only by contributing to the overall symphonic performance that they come into harmony.
Providing adequate training today for tomorrow’s warfighters is of critical importance. We can’t expect the modern soldier, airmen, sailor, or Marine to go into the field before mastering the mission.
A warfighter on reconnaissance peers across a valley to gather information and sees a vehicle commonly used by friendly local forces. The warfighter runs a machine learning inference process against the local video feed on a wearable “Tactical Virtual Assistant" device and receives a notification on the heads-up display of an augmented-reality (AR) headset that this vehicle belongs to friendly forces.