The National Security Agency (NSA) published its 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review this week to share its recent cybersecurity successes, including the agency’s work to enhance national security through artificial intelligence, strategic competition, and more. […]

The Senate on Tuesday night unanimously confirmed by voice vote Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh to head both the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) after a months-long blockade to his and other Pentagon nominations.  […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Digital Service (DDS) has announced that its Hack the Pentagon program has launched a continuous bug bounty program that will expand to the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) assets and beyond. […]

The National Security Agency (NSA), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released a new report providing guidance on industry best practices on open source software and software bills of materials (SBOM). […]

After the launch of its new generative AI task force – dubbed Task Force Lima – earlier this year, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is continuing to make progress on the adoption of generative AI technologies across the DoD. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced it is looking to provide a minimum viable capability (MVC) of Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities – to the Joint Force by the end of the year. […]

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – a Department of Defense (DoD) component – has awarded Northrop Grumman a $700 million contract to provide a cloud and sensor solution to deliver faster intelligence to warfighters. […]

In 2021, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence concluded that the Pentagon’s AI talent deficit is one of the greatest impediments to the United States being AI-ready by the target date of 2025. The Department of Defense (DoD) identified cultivating a workforce with AI expertise as a strategic focus area in 2018, but a new report finds that the DoD can’t fully identify who is part of its AI workforce or which positions require personnel with AI skills. […]

The House voted today to approve the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which features a 5.2 percent pay raise for military personnel, and represents a 3 percent year-over-year spending increase. […]

The U.S. Air Force laid out a list of steps it is taking to better protect and regulate access to classified data in the wake of last summer’s “Discord” breach that exposed to the public hundreds of classified military and intelligence agency documents, according to a Dec. 11 report that details the service branch’s responses to the breach. […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected 14 companies to participate in its Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study that will aims toward setting up a civil lunar framework for peaceful international use. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report that the Department of Defense (DoD) needs to take action to improve its workforce planning in quantum computing across its research facilities. […]

Gen. Paul Nakasone, who heads both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM), today called for a revamped “CYBERCOM 2.0,” aligning with similar calls from Congress for an independent U.S. Cyber Force. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) released a new capability this week that aims to improve the U.S. military’s situational awareness of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS). […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) innovation arm has been working hard and fast since 2015 to leverage emerging commercial technologies to better enable warfighters, but the lead of the unit said today that the defense organization is not yet where it needs to be to successfully deter a potential conflict with China. […]

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has tapped its current Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Ramesh Menon to serve in the additional role of the agency’s chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO), with plans to release an agency-wide AI strategy next week. […]

With ever-growing cyber threats across the digital landscape, the Department of Defense (DoD) is looking to ramp up its ongoing bug bounty program – known as Hack the Pentagon – to help the agency find undiscovered cybersecurity weaknesses. […]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) – one of 11 combatant commands of the U.S. Defense Department (DoD) and with areas of responsibility including the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia – has tappedDr. Michael Foster to serve as chief data officer (CDO). […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) count of software factories operating across the agency has reached approximately 50 as the Pentagon works to put in place tenets of the software strategy implementation plan that it released in March of this year, said Lily Zeleke, deputy chief information officer (CIO) for the Information Enterprise Office in DoD’s Office of the CIO. […]

The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) expects to go public later this month with the first of a series of solicitations to the private sector for help with the Defense Department’s (DoD) Replicator initiative that aims to quickly roll out thousands of inexpensive autonomous systems to counter China’s military mass. […]

Legislation introduced in the House and Senate this week aims to speed development of the Defense Department’s (DoD) Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking comments ahead of several revisions it plans to make to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), according to an advance notice of proposed rulemaking published to the Federal Register on Nov. 17. […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded Kratos Defense and Security Solutions an eight-year single award contract worth up to $579 million to provide the service branch with satellite control capabilities and directly support satellite systems. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is asking for industry input on a potential acquisition of technology that will enhance the U.S. Army’s blue-force tracker system through the use of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tech, according to a new request for information (RFI) from DoD. […]

The Department of Navy on Tuesday released its inaugural Department of the Navy Cyber Strategy, which identifies seven distinct lines of effort to enhance the naval services’ cybersecurity posture and emphasizes cyber as a warfighting domain. […]

The Pentagon on Nov. 17 publicly released new strategic guidance for operations in the information environment, which calls for a shift in how the Defense Department (DoD) approaches the integration of “informational and physical power.”  […]

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are accelerating decision-making and data analysis at the mission edge, military tech experts on Wednesday stressed the importance of training individuals in AI and ML in order to outpace adversaries. […]

The Office of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) has named Kevin Mulvihill the permanent deputy CIO for command, control, and communications (C3), the agency announced via LinkedIn on Nov. 7. […]

The head of the Pentagon’s office investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), or UFOs as they are more commonly known, plans to step down from his post in December, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced on Nov. 8. […]

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) – which operates within the Defense Department (DoD) to accelerate the military’s adoption of leading commercial technologies – is seeking industry help to develop tools that DoD can use to hunt for cyber threats on Pentagon networks. […]