A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says that the Pentagon is struggling to deliver new technologies quickly and includes cybersecurity and workforce challenges among the list of factors contributing to that problem. […]
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The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has tapped Maj. Gen. Steven Butow to serve as its military deputy, effective June 1. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) launched an open call for an industry partner to help bolster AI governance across the department. […]
Earlier this year, the Marine Corps achieved notable success amid the Department of Defense’s (DoD) broader challenges with financial audits by adopting a new accounting system. However, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that the lack of implementation guidance for the system is presenting several cost and data migration challenges. […]
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) and Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) have solidified their collaboration to further accelerate the rapid adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) at the Defense Department (DoD). […]
With threats from malicious cyber actors on the rise, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is aggressively leaning into developing frameworks around “formal methods” techniques to better protect warfighter systems, a DARPA official said on June 5. […]
The Defense Department’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is ramping up its contract opportunities with new private sector partners, a Pentagon official said today. […]
Sens. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., have “serious concerns” with the Department of Defense’s (DoD) plan to invest in Microsoft product upgrades to support zero trust goals, according to a May 29 letter. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) needs to improve how it collects and analyzes data from its military judicial system in order to guard against racial disparities that may result from those judicial functions, according to a May 23 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
The Defense Department’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) announced four new hires that will lead efforts to accelerate the Pentagon’s adoption and use of data, analytics, and AI technologies. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking for public comments on how the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) can continually work on adopting and integrating AI technology into its systems, according to a notice published to the Federal Register. […]
While the Department of Defense (DoD) has immense amounts of data on recruitment, retention, and development of its military workforce, the same cannot be said for its civilian workforce. That’s why the Pentagon’s talent management office is pursuing a plan to close that data gap to improve civilian workforce operations. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) policy office has a new temporary face leading its space policy efforts, the department announced on May 17. […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is seeking to purchase commercially made tools built for spotting, surveilling, and tracking illicit maritime activities in the Indo-Pacific, according to a commercial solution opening (CSO) solicitation posted to SAM.gov last week. […]
The use of digital tools by defense acquisition programs is a widespread practice at the Department of Defense (DoD), but much of the work along the way still includes a lot of paperwork. Defense engineers are pushing for a different approach. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today that it secured $500 million for the first tranche of capabilities in its ‘Replicator’ initiative. […]
Morgan Adamski has been appointed to serve as the new executive director of U.S. Cyber Command – one of the 11 unified combatant commands of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) – according to a May 3 announcement. […]
President Biden has nominated Tonya P. Wilkerson to serve as the under secretary of defense for intelligence and security, the White House announced on May 2. […]
The Pentagon is requesting $17.2 billion to fund science and technology (S&T) projects in fiscal year (FY) 2025, with most of that money designated for artificial intelligence (AI), space technology projects, and integrated sensing and cyber efforts, according to the Defense Department’s (DoD) technology chief. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is giving defense agencies fresh direction on achieving continuous authorization for DevSecOps platforms. […]
Getting the right information to the right people at the right time is important in every industry and every geography, but it is paramount to national defense and intelligence efforts. […]
The Pentagon’s administrative and management support agency has developed and will soon implement a customer experience (CX) management plan, an agency official said on Tuesday. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reached a new milestone in its classified cloud effort by migrating more than 300,000 Department of Defense (DoD) users into the new secret environment, the agency announced via LinkedIn on April 22. […]
From poor user satisfaction to integration challenges, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) new multi-billion dollar electronic health record (EHR) system faces several barriers that affect its implementation and efficiency, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) last week established a new advisory group to guide and improve how it delivers capability-enhancing technologies into the hands of warfighters. […]
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) – an agency of the Department of Defense (DoD) that handles most of the Federal government’s personnel security vetting tasks – has chosen Edward Lane to serve as the new program executive officer (PEO) at DCSA. […]
A review of the Defense Department’s component-level zero trust security implementation plans is painting a clearer picture of trends and challenges running through the three-dozen-plus plans – including the vital importance of proper funding for components, and achieving interoperability across component zero trust plans – to meet DoD’s 2027 zero trust deployment goal. […]
The U.S. Space Force released a new plan on April 10 that realigns and reprioritizes the service branch’s steps to better integrate commercial space capabilities. […]
A new bill introduced in the House and Senate is looking to designate a principal quantum advisor to the secretary of Defense to “supercharge” the Pentagon’s approach to quantum technology. […]
Google Public Sector said today that its Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDC Hosted) service has received authorizations to host some of the most sensitive missions for the Defense Department (DoD) and U.S. intelligence community agencies. […]