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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unveiled its 2024-2026 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Strategy for the Intelligence Community (IC) last week, laying the path to modernize its approach to collecting, creating, and delivering OSINT. […]

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The Department of Defense (DoD) delivered its first investment strategy today highlighting the Pentagon’s initial technology priorities for public sector investment in fiscal year (FY) 2024. […]

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As the Department of the Navy looks to enable better and faster decisions for warfighters, Chief Information Officer (CIO) Jane Rathbun said the service branch is infusing AI at the edge to improve decision-making. […]

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The Department of Defense (DoD) has officially approved zero trust implementation plans from all 41 of its components as it inches closer to its goal of implementing a zero trust architecture across the entire department by 2027. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is gearing up to have its final planning meeting in April on the agency’s National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) before sharing the results of its work with Congress, a senior Pentagon technology officer said today. […]

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The Senate on Feb. 28 confirmed the nomination of Aprille Joy Ericsson, a long-standing NASA aerospace engineer, to serve as an assistant secretary of defense (ASD) for science and technology at the Department of Defense’s (DoD) research office – a new position the Pentagon announced last summer. […]

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The Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest contracting agency in the Federal government – with contracts ranging from IT services to major weapon systems – leaving the agency inherently susceptible to fraud. A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that the Pentagon can get a better handle on mitigating fraud by leveraging data analytics. […]

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The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has announced the award of a $493 million task order to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to help support  technical and mission support services across USSOCOM. […]

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The Department of Defense (DoD) has picked which systems it wants to field under the first tranche of its Replicator initiative and is now awaiting congressional approval and funding to facilitate procurement, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The search for the straight dope on UFOs – and where to host all of that information – has stretched beyond the walls of the Pentagon and become a whole-of-government affair. […]

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Lily Zeleke, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) deputy chief information officer for enterprise IT (DCIO(IE), stepped down from that role on Feb. 22 and took over new responsibilities in the Department’s CIO office, Cmdr. Tim Gorman, a Pentagon spokesperson, told MeriTalk via email today. […]

While Federal agencies are awaiting President Biden’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget set for release sometime next month, a senior U.S. Navy official said this week that the service branch’s budget for digital transformation efforts has not been immune from spending pressures that agencies are facing going forward. […]

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. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has delivered its long-sought initial iteration of the Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) capability – the department’s AI-powered meta-network of connected sensors to coordinate all the armed forces – said Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. […]

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The National Security Agency (NSA) announced that Rob Joyce, the agency’s director of cybersecurity and the deputy national manager for national security systems, will retire on March 31 after 34 years of service with the NSA. […]

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The U.S. Space Force (USSF) plans to establish a Space Futures Command to develop and validate innovative concepts to meet today’s security challenges, said a senior official for the military branch. […]

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With the first draft of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) out since mid-January, the challenges are many in how the strategy will be implemented and what type of roles industry will play going forward, a DoD official explained on Feb. 16. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report that the Pentagon’s independent oversight office for intelligence activities – created in 1982 and headed by the Defense Department’s (DoD) senior intelligence oversight official (SIOO) – must be strengthened to avoid future risks to the program. […]

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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 […]

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) – the research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence – has awarded four-year contracts to five companies to help kickstart a new project to study the psychology of hackers and to determine how to better blunt attacks. […]

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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) – which operates within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) – has launched a new effort aimed at advancing the science behind quantum computing by lowering the number of errors produced in the process of quantum research. […]

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The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) said in a report released this week that it’s taking steps toward its next iteration – dubbed DIU 3.0 – that involves shifts in focus, action, and resourcing to accelerate the development and deployment of military technology. […]

The head of the Defense Department’s (DoD) Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office said this week that he is looking for firms to focus on product integration possibilities as they pitch zero trust security strategies to the Pentagon. […]

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