On May 21, 2026, Celerium joined cyber leaders from across government and industry at the Potomac Officers Club's 2026 Cyber Summit in Falls Church, Virginia. The day-long event drew senior voices from the Department of War, CISA, OMB, U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command, and the broader defense industrial base for a candid look at where federal cybersecurity stands — with the 2027 zero-trust deadline now less than a year away.
Representing Celerium were Satvinder Singh, Director of IT Operations, and Vince Crisler, Chief Strategy Officer.
Vince joined the panel "Cybersecurity at Commercial Speed: Securing CSO Innovation for Defense Missions." He shared the stage with cyber defense industry leaders. The discussion centered on a tension running through the entire summit: defense organizations are racing to adopt commercial cloud, AI, and autonomous systems, and the cyber risks are scaling just as quickly.
One of Vince's points landed especially hard. Speaking to the risks of AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery and what it means for the Defense Industrial Base, he reframed a familiar warning:
"We all know the saying — if you automate a broken process, you're going to break things faster. I'd modify that: if we accelerate technological innovation for the DoW without securing our networks against a rapidly evolving cyber threat environment, China is just going to steal things faster."
Other sessions throughout the day reinforced the same theme from different angles — panels on AI in cyber defense, advanced persistent threats, post-quantum cryptography, zero-trust resilience, and aligning cyber risk with mission risk. Across all of them, the message was consistent: the speed of adversary capability is the constraint defense modernization has to design around.
Celerium also joined the summit as a Platinum Sponsor, and the day offered valuable time with leaders shaping defense cybersecurity strategy, AI-driven cyber operations, and compliance across the sector.
That work continues well beyond the summit stage. In April, Celerium launched DIB CyberDome™, a platform purpose-built for the roughly 68,000 small and mid-sized defense contractors who handle sensitive DoW data — including Controlled Unclassified Information — but rarely have the budgets, staff, or tooling that the largest primes rely on. DIB CyberDome pairs Cyber Interceptor™, which delivers automated, adaptive threat blocking at the network boundary and re-optimizes every 15 minutes, with the Elevated Defense System™, an AI-powered capability that coordinates ecosystem-wide defense across participating contractors. Together, they directly address two of the most operationally complex CMMC Level 2 controls — continuous boundary monitoring and network protection — without requiring the SIEM, SOAR, and 24/7 SOC investments most smaller contractors can't sustain.
It's a concrete answer to the question Vince raised on the panel: how do we accelerate innovation across the defense industrial base without handing adversaries faster access to it? The takeaway from the summit was clear — innovation and cyber resilience have to move together, especially as the threat landscape grows more complex. DIB CyberDome is how Celerium is helping make that possible.
Learn more about how Celerium’s Cyber Interceptor™ strengthens cybersecurity and accelerates CMMC Level 2 compliance, both at once. It is built for overloaded contractors—fully automated, no staff required, no hardware, no agents. You can fast-track deployment on an existing firewall in about 30-60 minutes.