Business Development at SMS | Let's make our US Federal government partners successful together!
We made great connections with both industry and government at Rocky Mountain Chapter AFCEA. The United States Department of Defense and United States Department of the Air Force leadership have a tremendous opportunity to engage industry like never before as we bring proven technology to operators in a zero-trust AOA for the 5th domain. Here are a few highlights. We'll have more panel specifics coming out later this week from our team. Lt Gen Robert Skinner and Brig Gen Heather Blackwell led a great fireside chat on the future of the USAF workforce, and how they can build a better bridge to and from industry, to the mission. Lt Gen (Ret) Harry Raduege ran an excellent panel on zero trust with Miriam Marwick of Palantir Technologies, Maj Gen (Ret) Earl Matthews, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret) of Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud), and Max Perez of Infleqtion. Dr. Miriam Marwick boosted the maxim that "innovation isn't risk, it's required." This set a great tone for the group where each expert was on the cutting edge of zero-trust DoD applications. Earl Matthews, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret) reinforced that we need to verify before we trust, as the surface area for attacks on the data fabric is expanding exponentially across devices. Max Perez's commentary on how "fully entangled network transmission" will fundamentally change how information is delivered by encoding at the photon level was incredible. This is a massive benefit over the adversary. #ZeroTrust #RMCS23
