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. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald S. Moultrie will step down from his position at the end of this month, the Pentagon said today. […]

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. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) picked the first four projects of fiscal year (FY) 2024 that will receive funding from the DoD’s Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has been awarded a new designation making it an official Federal laboratory and conferring on the command unique privileges to advance the creation of new technologies. […]

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has tapped Juliane Gallina to serve as the agency’s new deputy director for digital innovation. […]

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. […]

The Pentagon’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in 2024 will begin to implement and start building out on actions it created solid foundations for last year, a top Defense Department (DoD) official said today. […]

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. […]

The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) talent center is working to expand its workforce diversity by establishing hiring procedures that will help individuals in the neurodivergent community to better present themselves during the hiring process, according to a senior CIA official. […]

An official with the Defense Department’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) outlined what he called the office’s planned “big plays” for the rest of fiscal year 2024 during a Jan. 31 AI Acquisition Forum hosted by ACT-IAC. […]

The Pentagon’s lack of a comprehensive and coordinated approach to tracking and reporting unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) – or UFOs as they are often called – is endangering U.S. national security, according to an unclassified summary of a report prepared by the Department of Defense (DoD) inspector general (IG). […]

The U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) has selected Bill Hepworth to serve as the program executive officer (PEO). He took over the position at an Army ceremony on Jan. 26 – replacing Ross Guckert who is retiring after 34 years of service. […]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) plans to focus on automation of sensor exploitation through the use of AI technologies as part of an ambitious plan to invest in AI tech this year, an agency official said on Jan. 30 at MeriTalk’s Accelerate AI Forum in Washington. […]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has launched a new 24/7 operations center to provide geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to policymakers and military forces, the agency announced on Jan. 24. […]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded four companies a spot on a new $794.1 million multi-vendor contract to support the agency’s research and development (R&D) services and directorate, the GEOINT agency announced on Jan. 26. […]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is soliciting proposals for Luno A, a $290 million contract to acquire unclassified commercial geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) derived computer vision and analytic service capabilities. […]

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has put artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy technologies on its list of top research priorities for 2024, along with a host of areas more specific to weapons systems. […]

The Pentagon is on track to meet 2025 deadlines for the first iteration of its Replicator Initiative that aims to accelerate the delivery of innovative capabilities at speed and scale to warfighters, a senior official at the Defense Department’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) said on Jan. 24. […]

Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman has officially launched a Customer Experience Officer (CXO) Portfolio Management Office, a DoD spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]

The U.S. Army is looking for industry input as the service branch seeks to develop a new Army Military Payroll (AMP) “total solution,” according to a request for proposal (RFP) issued on Jan. 18. […]

The Pentagon has come under fire from its watchdog component which came out with a new report Tuesday that shows “enduring concerns” with the Defense Department’s (DoD) financial management systems. […]

Top Pentagon officials began a three-week tour across the nation this week to connect with the Defense Department’s (DoD) Microelectronics Commons Hubs sites, as well as local government leaders, and experts from industry and academia. […]