The U.S. Army is seeking new acoustic detection technology to help warfighters identify and respond to small unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones. […]
Lawmakers on Tuesday took steps to require greater transparency from the Pentagon over how it is spending funds provided for the Golden Dome missile-defense program, adding new oversight requirements to the fiscal year (FY) 2026 defense spending bill. […]
President Donald Trump nominated Marine Lt. Gen. James Adams III to serve as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon announced Tuesday. […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to restructure its Advana data platform, separating financial data from a new War Data Platform to support warfighting and intelligence missions across the Defense Department (DOD) – which the Trump administration rebranded as the War Department. […]
New legislation filed in the Senate would instruct the Defense Department (DOD) to redouble efforts to recruit and retain members of the agency’s cybersecurity workforce and help address a double-digit percentage shortfall in DOD’s total cybersecurity employee rolls. […]
The Pentagon is in the middle of overhauling the structure of its innovation organizations, shifting oversight, and formalizing reporting lines for several offices as part of a broader effort to consolidate the development and fielding of new technologies across the Defense Department (DOD) – rebranded as the War Department by the Trump administration. […]
Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and the National Security Agency (NSA), pledged today to evaluate the effectiveness of the dual-hat leadership structure of the agencies. […]
The Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF 401) has made its first acquisition under the Replicator 2 initiative, awarding a contract for two advanced DroneHunter F700 systems expected to be delivered by April. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) published on Wednesday the first two products in a series of Zero Trust Implementation Guidelines (ZIGs) to help facilitate skilled practitioners’ implementation of zero trust. […]
Integration – not new technology tools – is the linchpin of successful zero trust implementation within the Department of the Navy, according to a senior Navy cyber official. […]
President Donald Trump’s call for a $1.5 trillion defense budget for fiscal year (FY) 2027 drew sharp reactions, as fiscal watchdogs warned of major debt impacts while Republican leaders praised the proposal as necessary to counter global threats. […]
Cameron Stanley will serve as the Pentagon’s next chief digital and artificial intelligence officer (CDAO), Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Jan. 12 during an address at SpaceX headquarters in Starbase, Texas. […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo this week unveiling a new artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to expand the military’s use of AI across operations, intelligence, and enterprise functions. […]
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have tapped Timothy Kosiba as the National Security Agency’s (NSA) 21st deputy director. […]
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded nine National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 launches aimed at improving missile warning and missile tracking capabilities. […]
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) announced Thursday that it created seven new acquisition organizations as part of broader Pentagon procurement reforms directed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. […]
The Pentagon lacks complete and reliable data on which civilian employees are eligible for telework or remote work, limiting its ability to track and oversee those arrangements, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday imposing new restrictions on major defense contractors, accusing parts of the defense industrial base of prioritizing shareholder returns over timely production for the military. […]
The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is seeking new technology to help its non-standard commercial vehicles keep a low profile as advances in sensors and telematics create new risks of detection by adversaries. […]
2025 brought a wave of changes to the Pentagon as it transitioned from the Biden administration to President Donald Trump’s leadership. MeriTalk tracked the department’s tech-focused agenda, which spanned workforce reductions, cybersecurity overhauls, drone dominance and ambitious missile defense programs. […]
Defense technology companies are urging the Pentagon to clarify how it verifies software security compliance, citing a lack of standardized processes for software attestations, according to a new Pentagon report. […]
The Senate confirmed Kirsten Davies on Thursday night as the Pentagon’s new chief information officer (CIO), winning approval on a 53-43 vote. […]
President Donald Trump nominated Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM), the Pentagon announced on Thursday. […]
The U.S. Coast Guard plans to roll out its digital transformation strategy within the next few weeks, aiming to shift the service from largely analog processes to a fully digital military organization, a senior official said during a recent panel session. […]
The Pentagon plans to modernize how it tests new weapon systems as part of a broader effort to expedite capabilities to the battlefield, but a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says current policies do not fully reflect industry best practices. […]
The Pentagon has reissued calls for all components to onboard their Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (ICOFR)-relevant systems to an approved identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) solution by the end of fiscal year (FY) 2026, in an effort to support a clean departmentwide audit by FY 2028. […]
The U.S. Coast Guard has fallen short of its goals for timely evaluations of injured and ill service members and lacks key tools to track the performance of its disability evaluation system, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
The Pentagon is directing all components to quickly transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), citing advances in quantum information science and the need to protect military systems and communications. […]
Acting Defense Department (DOD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Katie Arrington used her final public address in the role to announce that the Pentagon is moving to deploy Mission Network as a Service, an effort she said would unify the department’s secret-level systems in under a year. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has received approval for “surgical rehiring” to fill critical vacancies left after Pentagon-wide workforce reduction efforts, Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton, Cyber Defense Command commander and DISA director, said today during a media roundtable. […]