Govini removes founder from board following arrest
The company emphasized that Eric Gillespie "stepped down from the role of CEO almost a decade ago and had no access to classified information."
The company emphasized that Eric Gillespie "stepped down from the role of CEO almost a decade ago and had no access to classified information."
The new study of 2024 data also warns that the Pentagon remains over-reliant on a small number of traditional prime contractors and a supplier base rife with potential bottlenecks.
The Pentagon needs to take lessons from "smart" home devices and apply it the supply chain for munitions, writes Tara Murphy Dougherty of Govini.
"It is well past time for DoD to stop treating AI like it is just a science project," Govini CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty said.
Data analytics firm Govini noted widespread investment in most of 12 top critical national security technologies, but said stats on patents are a troubling indicator of Beijing's tech rise.
US government spending on critical technologies nearly doubled from $60.7 billion in FY17 to $117.2 billion in FY21, according to Govini's report. However, the US isn’t investing what it needs to avoid losing the battlefield of the future in AI/ML.
"We are past the tipping point where information and decision-centric capabilities are more important instruments of war than kinetic weapons," write former deputy secretary Bob Work and Govini's Bill Fabian.
The Marine Corps says the new missile is a top modernization priority. Analysts say China is a big reason why.
Analysts from Govini say the Navy's current investments leaves open the question whether the service can fulfill its vision for Distributed Maritime Operations in the next decade.
"The proactive, nefarious work coming from China and Russia in particular [will make US policymakers] “realize that we don't have control over everything that we think we have control over,” Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of Govini said
"The impact of the COVID crisis in the aviation sector has been really nothing short of catastrophic," said Hunter. "At this point, it's very challenging for those companies to stay in business."
"I just had a general who came to my office," said Chris Lynch, head of DoD's internal hoodie-wearing geek squad, the Defense Digital Service. "The problem was the entire mission was being run out of Excel."