Maritime awareness starts with imagery generated by military, civilian federal and commercial satellites and other platforms. Planet, for example, provides federal agencies, among other customers, electro-optical imagery from its fleet of some 200 satellites.
The National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office coordinates maritime awareness intelligence from a plethora of stakeholders, both domestic and international, and employs cloud services and automation tools to make sense of it all.
Ret. Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger, the former vice commandant of the Coast Guard, said the maritime intelligence fusion centers improve what service members can see when monitoring vessels.
Alan Hope, head of the mission development branch at the Naval Research Laboratory inside the Naval Center for Space Technology, said the “Maritime mission is a global mission, and as such, that requires access to parts of the globe that aren’t easily accessible by any other means.”
A “consume versus build” model can help agencies revamp their back-office IT environments at scale, explains Groundswell CEO George Batsakis.
Modern financial systems offer the ideal way to tie budget to strategy and improve decision-making, explains Russ Rumbaugh, who left the Navy in January 2025.
Racine Sykes, CEO of Yellow House Consulting Group, shares four tips that helped her young business navigate path toward early success as a federal contractor.
SDFM name reflects the wide range of current members — from accountants, budgeteers and auditors to data analysts, system engineers and data scientists.
Discover how a former Navy pilot brings data to the tactical edge for warfighters in flight.
A redwood tree can live upward of 2,000 years. Will Redwood Strategy Group still be providing financial and IT services to agencies in 4024?
FEDtalk host Natalia Castro, Deputy Director of Government and Public Affairs at Shaw Bransford & Roth P.C., is joined by WIFLE President Catrina Bonus, who began leading WIFLE in February.
Federal employment is anything but simple. In fact, each year, thousands of federal workplace cases end up in the courts, federal district, appellate, and administrative forums.
