The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Mission Partner Environments (MPEs) are largely net-centric. However, as the department continues to develop MPEs, it will need to increase operational capability, requiring a paradigm shift from net-centricity to data-centricity, according to a DoD official. […]

The U.S. Army is debuting a civilian capability for the service branch’s voluntary education and training portal – dubbed ArmyIgnitED – the agency announced on August 14. […]

FBI Director Christopher Wray has tapped Janeen DiGuiseppi to serve as the assistant director of the Insider Threat Office at the FBI’s headquarters in Washington.   […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) should increase its investment in developing a quantifiable assurance method for microelectronics – specifically a data-centric approach to mitigating risk within the microelectronics commercial supply chain – according to an independent panel review. […]

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. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) has tapped Jinyoung Englund to serve as the inaugural chief strategy officer (CSO) on the executive leadership team in the CDAO’s Algorithmic Warfare Directorate. […]

The Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) – part of the acquisitions command of the U.S. Marine Corps – is looking for industry’s insight on how artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots can help support the command’s geospatial intelligence program to receive requests and output information. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has rolled out a new challenge seeking innovative talent management ideas that would make an impact across the department in recruiting, retaining, and promoting a diverse workforce. […]

The Defense Health Agency (DHA), a component of the Department of Defense (DoD), has named Lisa Belter as the agency’s new chief technology officer, according to her LinkedIn. She began in the new post in July. […]

In an “extremely contested” environment like space, leveraging commercial innovation is key to resiliency. […]

The Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, today released a new strategy providing the intelligence community (IC) with directions on how to navigate the next four years in national intelligence. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) today announced the establishment of a new generative AI task force – dubbed Task Force Lima – aimed at assessing and integrating generative AI capabilities across the DoD. […]

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has elevated Adarryl Roberts from program executive officer to chief information officer, according to a LinkedIn post August 6. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has assumed responsibility for the management and operations of the SharkSeer cyber defense tool previously managed by the National Security Agency (NSA), the agency announced on Monday. […]

The U.S. Army is currently looking to integrate its tactical networks with its enterprise cloud systems, something that a top Army official this week said is “really challenging” to do. […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) efforts to move from a highly networked legacy environment to a data-driven environment require a careful balance between modernizing network systems and meeting mission requirements, a senior Pentagon technology official explained this week. […]

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.” […]

The Commerce Department (DOC) and the Department of Defense (DoD), signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) last week to broaden their collaboration on the production of semiconductors for U.S. defense capabilities. […]

The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gilbert Cisneros will be stepping down from his role at the Department of Defense (DoD) in early September. […]

After two weeks of combing through nearly 1,000 amendments, the Senate late on Thursday night finally passed its version of the behemoth fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – and it’s packed with Federal tech and cybersecurity provisions. […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that if his colleagues “continue embracing bipartisanship, we will finish our work on the NDAA before the start of the August state work period” – which begins tomorrow. […]

Brig Gen. AnnMarie Anthony has been chosen to lead the Department of Defense’s (DoD) new office aimed at enhancing the U.S.’ strategic advantages in electromagnetic spectrum. […]

Members of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation blasted the Department of Defense (DoD) on Wednesday over its decision to abandon the MyTravel system – a $374 million replacement to modernize the agency’s outdated Defense Travel System (DTS). […]

Tech-sector companies need more education on requirements needed to operate within the Department of Defense (DoD), especially for cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers new to the department, a U.S. Army official said this week. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded 16 contracts on July 18 to several organizations, on behalf of the U.S. Space Force, for Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services – marking a first for government satellite communication (SATCOM) procurement. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is making some workforce changes within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)) to ensure that the department continues to execute its mission that the U.S. gains and maintains the technological edge on the world stage. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) plans to release an updated framework for how the department will develop and adopt data analytics and AI capabilities by the end of the summer, according to Deputy CDAO Margie Palmieri. […]

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Ranking Member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., opened Senate floor deliberation last week on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year (FY) 2024. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has fallen behind in applying Agile software development principles to its software acquisition tools for some of its weapons programs, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released on July 20. […]

The need for better predictive maintenance capabilities in defense, commercial aviation, and commercial rail is urgent. However, factors like legacy systems, tooling, and a lack of access to real-time onboard data cause are getting in the way of reaching that goal, according to a new report from MeriTalk and underwritten by Shift5, the observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT). […]