The Pentagon’s nascent Cyber Operational Readiness Assessment (CORA) continues to advance in its goal to strengthen the Defense Department’s cybersecurity posture, but the road thus far has been “bumpy,” a top Pentagon tech official said. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has created a new chief experience officer (CXO) role to prioritize enhancements to customer experience across DISA. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is preparing to reveal a revamped data strategy – set to cover fiscal years (FY) 2025 through 2027 – in the coming months, the agency’s chief data officer said on Tuesday. […]
The head of cybersecurity at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) offered several updates this week on how DISA is streamlining its “mountain” of data to enable the agency to automate its cybersecurity activities and make key progress in its Thunderdome zero trust security solution. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is gearing up to launch a pilot version of its Olympus managed cloud environment in September which aims to provide advanced management capabilities for Pentagon cloud users, an agency official said today. […]
The Defense Department (DoD) today unveiled a wide-ranging plan to modernize the agency’s IT networks and compute infrastructure with the aim of providing better user-centric IT capabilities to warfighters around the globe. […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin Space a $997.5 million contract extension for the continued development, testing, and on-orbit support of two geosynchronous missile-warning satellites, the Pentagon announced on June 21. […]
The Defense Department’s (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) has launched the 24th annual DoD CIO Awards program with a departmentwide call for nominations to recognize individuals and teams in the DoD IT community. […]
Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Crime Center (DC3) Executive Director Jude Sunderbruch retired from his position on June 18, the Pentagon announced on June 20. […]
Two top officials from the Pentagon’s Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Science & Technology (OASD(S&T)) highlighted ways the Defense Department (DoD) is leading the charge on leveraging innovative technologies in the areas of quantum and biotech. […]
The Space Systems Command (SSC) – the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for acquiring and delivering tools for space warfighter – has awarded four contracts worth $100 million to develop space laser communication capabilities. […]
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has revealed how it will be spending the $938 million Congress allocated it at the end of March for fiscal year (FY) 2024. […]
The U.S. Army is launching a generative AI (GenAI) pilot this summer, with a top Army official saying she is “excited” about the project even as the service proceeds quickly but cautiously because of security concerns. […]
The U.S. Space Force’s first-ever chief technology and innovation officer, Lisa Costa, is retiring from public service, she announced on Tuesday in a post on LinkedIn. […]
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says that the Pentagon is struggling to deliver new technologies quickly and includes cybersecurity and workforce challenges among the list of factors contributing to that problem. […]
The Senate Armed Services Committee on June 13 voted 22-3 to advance its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year (FY) 2025, setting the stage for deliberations to begin on the Senate floor. […]
President Biden has nominated Maj. Gen. Paul Stanton to become the next director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and commander of the Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQ-DoDIN), the Pentagon announced Friday. […]
The U.S. Air Force has transitioned how it develops capabilities from a platform-centric model to prioritizing underlying systems that will better position the service branch for the challenges of the great power competition, a top Air Force official said on Thursday. […]
The House narrowly passed the $883.7 billion defense policy bill today with a 217-199 vote. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) has appointed Kristina Walter to lead its Cybersecurity Collaboration Center (CCC), the agency announced on Thursday. […]
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has tapped Maj. Gen. Steven Butow to serve as its military deputy, effective June 1. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) established a new office that seeks to bolster the partnership between the department and academia about cyber defense efforts, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday. […]
With the rapid growth of AI technologies, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Treasury are facing challenges in finding talent with AI expertise, according to agency officials. […]
After sifting through more than 1,300 proposed amendments for the annual defense policy bill, the House Rules Committee voted 9-4 on Tuesday to advance the bill to the House for a floor vote. The amendments were narrowed down to 350, with several tech provisions included in the final version. […]
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is ramping up efforts to integrate generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into its operations unveiling a new experimental GenAI chatbot. […]
Phillip LaJoie has returned to the public health sector as the newly appointed chief operating officer (COO) for the Market Technology Integration Office at the Defense Health Agency (DHA), according to a post on LinkedIn. […]
Earlier this year, the Marine Corps achieved notable success amid the Department of Defense’s (DoD) broader challenges with financial audits by adopting a new accounting system. However, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that the lack of implementation guidance for the system is presenting several cost and data migration challenges. […]
The FBI is offering to victims of recent LockBit ransomware attacks the use of 7,000 decryption keys seized from the ransomware perpetrator so that victims can use the keys to reclaim their seized data. […]
President Biden has nominated Maj. Gen. Melvin Carter to be the U.S. Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for information, the Pentagon announced today. […]
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) and Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) have solidified their collaboration to further accelerate the rapid adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) at the Defense Department (DoD). […]