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. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is hosting the CDAO Procurement Forum on Nov. 30 to brief industry on its procurement forecast for 2024. […]
Jane Rathbun has been tapped to serve as the Department of the Navy’s chief information officer (CIO) on a more permanent basis, officially dropping the “acting” title as of Oct. 29. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is calling on industry to help understand how it can best simplify the capabilities it provides the Defense Department (DoD) in support of an agile and flexible military and civilian force. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is “very excited” about its recent request for information from industry about a key part of DoD’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities – a defense official said on Nov. 2. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) hosted its second technology demonstration to assess and fast-track technologies it considers critical for its Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) effort, the department announced last week. […]
Are you a current or former service member or government employee with knowledge of UFO-related incidents? If the answer is yes, the Pentagon wants to hear from you. […]
The Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded Northrop Grumman and York Space Systems contracts to build and operate satellites that will be part of the agency’s second tranche of data transport spacecraft intended to provide warfighters with persistent global communications capabilities. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) information technology contracting division is seeking proposals for a potential operations systems solution contract to provide hardware and software sustainment and mission support services to the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA). […]
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., is urging the Pentagon’s Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) unit to take an offensive stance against the Chinese hacking group who breached the State Department, Commerce Department, and House of Representatives emails earlier this year. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) plans to issue its first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy by December 2023, which will create a road map for how the Pentagon will prioritize and modernize the U.S. industrial base, the department announced on Oct. 20. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) office has received more than 800 reports of UAP incidents, according to the office’s annual report released this week, which says that 271 of those were reported in the year ended April 2023. […]
Today, witnesses at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing agreed that the Department of Defense’s (DoD) newly announced ‘Replicator’ initiative is a step in the right direction, but raised a similar concern: can the DoD execute this ambitious plan in its two-year timeframe? […]
Federal agencies are increasingly adopting edge computing, citing its transformative power to enable field agents and military personnel to make faster decisions and respond to crisis situations, experts said. […]
Many Federal agencies are looking to use AI as a key cybersecurity tool, but before agencies get too far ahead of themselves, U.S. Air Force Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) Winston Beauchamp said on Tuesday that the number one thing agencies can do to improve their cybersecurity posture is to modernize their IT architecture. […]
A Defense Department (DoD) spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today that Joe Larson, a long-time Pentagon leader overseeing the use and scaling of digital and algorithmic technologies for war, plans to step down from his post effective February 1, 2024. […]