Ken LarsonFeb 14, 20224 min readHow To Improve Your Project Manager’s Performance“WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” By Michael Lisagor “Despite training and good intentions, project managers often make the same mistakes over and...
Ken LarsonFeb 13, 20222 min readBoeing Has Now Paid $5.4 Billion In Pre-Tax Charges On KC- 46 Tanker Cost Overruns A KC-46 refuels a Navy F:A-18F using its centerline drogue system. (DoD) “BREAKING DEFENSE” By Valerie Insinna “The KC-46 program has...
Ken LarsonFeb 12, 20223 min read$400M VA Program To Help COVID-Unemployed Veterans Produces Few New JobsMargarita Angelo talks to veteran Robert Ryan “MILITARY TIMES” By Leo Shane III “Only a few dozen veterans have landed jobs through the...
Ken LarsonFeb 11, 20222 min read14 Critical Emerging Tech Areas Pursued By Defense Department Research And EngineeringPLEASE CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE “C4ISRNET” By Courtney Albon “Pentagon Research and Engineering is crafting a strategy for investment in 14...
Ken LarsonFeb 10, 20227 min readPentagon Seeking New Entrants Into Defense Industrial Base “NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE" By Yasmin Tadjdeh “To entice new companies to work with the Pentagon, the department is “doubling down” on...
Ken LarsonFeb 9, 20225 min readLowering Barriers To Commercial Firms For High Tech Defense Production Opportunities Via OTA’S“BREAKING DEFENSE” By Christopher Zember “In order to achieve the potential that the commercial market has to offer, DoD needs to expand...
Ken LarsonFeb 8, 20222 min readPentagon’s Main Cyber Security Initiative For Defense Contractors Switches Hands“C4ISRNET”By Mark Pomerleau The Department of Defense’s chief information officer will now oversee the department’s cybersecurity...
Ken LarsonFeb 7, 20223 min readLowest Price, Technically Acceptable (LPTA) Works For Buying Pencils – Not Systems And ServicesExcerpted from the just released: How to Win in the Government Market (co-authored with Mark Amtower) “WASHINGTON TECHNOLOGY” – BY Mike...
Ken LarsonFeb 6, 20223 min readUnited States Warfare Realities TodayIn the last two decades the U.S. has reacted to the 911 tragedy by creating a behemoth machine that cannot and will not continue. It...
Ken LarsonFeb 5, 20224 min readViral Letter Begging The Military To ‘Fix Our Computers’ Reaches Pentagon Leaders“TASK AND PURPOSE” BY DAVID ROZA “Yesterday, I spent an hour waiting just to log-on,” wrote Michael Kanaan, The Director of Operations...
Ken LarsonFeb 4, 20222 min readNSA’s Cyber Security Directorate To Scale Up Partnership With Defense Industrial Base“C4ISRNET” By Mark Pomerleau “A top goal this year for the National Security Agency’s nearly two year old cybersecurity directorate is to...
Ken LarsonFeb 3, 20226 min readNational Science Foundation Lean Startup And ‘De-Risking’ Techniques From ‘I Corps’“NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE” By Maj. Ray K. Ragan “The I-Corps program teaches academics and entrepreneurs about lean startup techniques...
Ken LarsonFeb 2, 20223 min readSkilled Cyber Defenders – Not Just New Tech“C4ISRNET” By Mark Pomerleau “Automated tools are sometimes necessary to thwart cyberthreats that attack networks at so-called machine...
Ken LarsonFeb 1, 20223 min readThe Spyware That’s Changing Cyber War“THE NEW YORK TIMES” By Daid Leonhardt “When an Israeli company released a new spyware product known as Pegasus in 2011, it changed...
Ken LarsonJan 31, 20222 min readWhat Is 5G? An Electrical Engineer Explains“DEFENSE NEWS” By Prasenjit Mitra “5G stands for fifth-generation cellular network technology. 5G offers an order of magnitude — 10 times...
Ken LarsonJan 30, 20223 min readQuality Verifiable Big Data On Conflict Of Interest – Waste – Fraud And Abuse At The Pentagon“THE PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT (POGO PENTAGON REVOLVING DOOR DATA BASE https://www.pogo.org/database/pentagon-revolving-door/...
Ken LarsonJan 29, 20223 min readMan Sentenced To 6 Years Prison For Over $1 Million In Disabled Veteran & Social Security Fraud Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Florida “A 27-year-old Georgia man who redirected the benefits of...
Ken LarsonJan 28, 20222 min readDARPA Makes Contract Awards For Tool Development To Detect/Analyze Enemy Propaganda On Social Media“MILITARY+AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS ” By John Keller “The U.S. is engaged with its adversaries in an asymmetric and continual war of...
Ken LarsonJan 27, 20223 min readSBA And “Business Forward Foundation” Announce Agreement For Free Digital Support Services SBA PRESS RELAEASE January 21, 2022 | Release Number 22-02 “A new venture will convene major tech companies, players to provide small...
Ken LarsonJan 26, 20225 min readGeopolitics Keeps Overruling Cyber Norms, So What’s The Alternative?“BREAKING DEFENSE” By Laura G. Brent https://www.cnas.org/people/laura-brent “Behavior in cyberspace will not be better or different than...
