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The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is looking for vendors to help it modernize and operate its network infrastructure across the service, including at Guard and Reserve bases, according to a request for proposal (RFP) from the branch’s Enterprise IT and Cyber Infrastructure Division. […]

Alexis Bonnell, the chief information officer (CIO) and director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), shared with industry today the five deadly sins of digital transformation, and called on organizations to adopt a people-centric mindset. […]

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The U.S. Air Force has added 17 companies to positions on a $499 million contract that aims to develop anti-tampering technology that can be used to protect critical programs and information from adversarial attacks. The multi-year contract is part of the Air Force Life Cycle Management at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, which […]

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A new U.S. Air Force operational doctrine publication released by the service branch last month covering electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) operations is setting forth goals for the Air Force and U.S. military joint forces to create competitive advantages in the EMS arena. […]

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Many Federal agencies are looking to use AI as a key cybersecurity tool, but before agencies get too far ahead of themselves, U.S. Air Force Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) Winston Beauchamp said on Tuesday that the number one thing agencies can do to improve their cybersecurity posture is to modernize their IT architecture. […]

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The U.S. Air Force and Space Force face a tough race for technological superiority with China, which continues to modernize its air and space forces to project power in the Indo-Pacific region, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said this week. […]

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The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking for industry to help provide the Air Force Installation Contracting Center (AFICC) with new “integrated realistic training environment” capabilities, according to a recently published contract opportunity. […]

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The U.S. Department of the Air Force has appointed Venice Goodwine as the service branch’s new chief information officer (CIO), replacing Lauren Knausenberger, who departed the Air Force in June. […]

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Alexis Bonnell, who late last month became the Air Force Research Laboratory’s first chief information officer and director of its new Digital Capabilities Directorate, is viewing her new duties with a “bias to action … that lets me take risk, be curious, and lean in.” […]

As the U.S. Air Force and Space Force move toward expanding their Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), the service branches are looking to brew up competition among private sector organizations of all sizes to grow ABMS capabilities, said Gen. Luke Cropsey, the Air Force’s Integrating Program Executive Officer for Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management. […]

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The United States Air Force has awarded Maxar a $20 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to boost the capabilities of its Red Wing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) platform through new algorithms and other advancements including AI tech. […]

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The U.S. Air Force awarded General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) a $137.8 million contract last week to provide support for the special warfare acquisition growth and refresh, Guardian Angel operations, and tactical air control party modernization programs. […]

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U.S. Air Force Chief Information Officer (CIO) Lauren Knausenberger detailed her team’s efforts on the zero trust security migration during a Billington Cybersecurity webinar this week, and said that move to new security paradigm has generated traction and “unity of effort unlike I have seen in my tenure.” […]

The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is calling for new quantum information science (QIS) solutions – including advanced algorithm designs and quantum networking – under a broad agency announcement (BAA) unveiled last week. […]

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With the COVID-19 pandemic having subsided to an ominous simmer, the U.S. Air Force is finding that hybrid work policies are proving their value, and sometimes grade out as more effective than the pre-pandemic traditional work model. […]

As Lt. Col. Max Reele, material leader at the U.S. Air Force’s Kessel Run agile software development unit, readies for a possible departure in the next two months, he said this week that he wants to leave the organization in a “really healthy place.” […]

Lauren Knausenberger, Air Force CIO

The Space Development Agency (SDA) is seeking an industry partner to develop, implement, and sustain a Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) application factory, according to a solicitation released on Feb. 14. […]

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Lauren Knausenberger, Air Force CIO
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While the U.S. Air Force has taken positive steps to develop the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), it has yet to deliver or identify any capabilities of the system, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]

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Eileen Vidrine is returning to the Department of the Air Force (DAF) later this month to serve as the service branch’s chief data and artificial intelligence officer (CDAO). […]

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As foreign adversaries begin to close the gap in the cyberspace race with the United States, the chief information officer (CIO) at the Air Force explained that the nation needs to be prepared for information to be front and center on the battlefield during any future war. […]

On a modern battlefield, the side that can respond the fastest to changing information gains decisive advantage, and edge technology is proving to be the enabler of that crucial advantage, a senior U.S. Air Force tech leader said today at the Red Hat Government Symposium in Washington, D.C. […]

Two Defense Department (DoD) organizations are partnering to improve global weather sensing applications by contracting for industry development of ground, air, and space-based technologies, according to a press release from Oct. 26. […]

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The United States Air Force is moving to shore up its end-user technology support functions following emergence of a “fix our computers” campaign that went viral earlier this year on Twitter and asserted that the Defense Department (DoD) was losing hundreds of thousands of employee hours annually due to computers that don’t work right. […]

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