The Department of Defense (DoD) stood up a new civilian-facing cyber policy office on March 20, the department announced last Friday. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) on Thursday announced its first ever strategy to enhance cybersecurity across the defense industrial base (DIB). […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is currently developing a new cloud service management platform to ease barriers and burdens to services, a top cloud expert at the agency said on Wednesday. […]
The U.S. Navy has grown the scope of an ongoing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) pilot program and is putting the pilot through the rigors of testing that one Navy tech executive likened to “throwing rocks” at the program. […]
Over the past week, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) military services and combatant commands have sent their budget “wish lists” to Congress, including several tech-focused programs that failed to make it into the official fiscal year (FY) 2025 defense budget request. […]
As it looks to modernize its software procurement process, the U.S. Army is setting up a digital center of excellence for contracting as well as building a “cell” that can offer expertise specific to large software contracts, according to Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Leonel Garciga. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) plans to roll out a new roadmap in the coming months that will guide the department in its use of technology to drive business outcomes, a top Pentagon tech official said today. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Sasha Baker, plans to step down from her post by the end of next month, the DoD announced today. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) legacy acquisition systems are too slow to be competitive and are only incrementally innovative, witnesses said at a Senate hearing last week. […]
Two top officials from the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) offered updates today to three of CDAO’s key programs that aim to scale AI across the Defense Department (DoD), including AI scaffolding initiatives through Alpha 1, the Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE) series, and how Task Force Lima is helping DoD adopt generative AI. […]
The fiscal year 2024 Defense Appropriations bill unveiled by the House and Senate Appropriations committees on March 21 boosts defense funding from FY2023 levels but largely splits the difference between last year’s budget and the total that the Biden administration had proposed for the current fiscal year. […]
President Biden on March 21 nominated Michael Sulmeyer to become Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy – a new position that was created by the fiscal year (FY) 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). […]
Funding quantum computing research at the academic and industrial levels is critical to gaining a clear understanding of the emerging technology and informing policy decisions, according to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) research chief. […]
Cara Abercrombie earlier this month officially began her tenure at the Pentagon as assistant secretary of Defense for acquisition, her office announced via LinkedIn. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced that David Cattler will take over as the next director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), which handles most of the Federal government’s personnel security vetting tasks. His first day on the job will be March 24. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is preparing for a leadership transition as Dr. Craig Martell, the office’s current chief, plans to step down from his post early next month, the department announced today. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has issued a final rule with revisions to the eligibility criteria for the voluntary Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity (CS) Program, greatly expanding the number of DIB companies that can participate in the program. […]
As cyberattacks are growing in severity and scale, a new FBI report has found that government facilities were the third largest target for cybersecurity hackers in 2023. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) needs to streamline its software procurement statutory, regulatory, and budgetary framework to build and maintain the nation’s software advantage, a former DoD official told lawmakers on Wednesday during a House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing. “Our nation has developed and operationalized technology solutions that have transformed our commercial sector and in […]
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is looking for vendors to help it modernize and operate its network infrastructure across the service, including at Guard and Reserve bases, according to a request for proposal (RFP) from the branch’s Enterprise IT and Cyber Infrastructure Division. […]
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have announced a new collaboration between the two organizations that aims to embrace innovative technologies for bolstering national security. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its annual intelligence community (IC) threat assessment on Monday, revealing that China, Russia, and Iran are capable of disrupting the U.S. 2024 election cycle. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) for zero trust networks outlining detailed information on curtailing adversarial lateral movements to access sensitive data in critical systems. […]
The Pentagon’s UFO office emphasized — once again — that it has found no evidence of alien technology. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unveiled its 2024-2026 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Strategy for the Intelligence Community (IC) last week, laying the path to modernize its approach to collecting, creating, and delivering OSINT. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) delivered its first investment strategy today highlighting the Pentagon’s initial technology priorities for public sector investment in fiscal year (FY) 2024. […]
As the Department of the Navy looks to enable better and faster decisions for warfighters, Chief Information Officer (CIO) Jane Rathbun said the service branch is infusing AI at the edge to improve decision-making. […]
The U.S. Army is seeking insight from industry on mobile weapons platforms that can counter unmanned aerial systems, according to a request for information (RFI) posted to SAM.gov. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has officially approved zero trust implementation plans from all 41 of its components as it inches closer to its goal of implementing a zero trust architecture across the entire department by 2027. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is gearing up to have its final planning meeting in April on the agency’s National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) before sharing the results of its work with Congress, a senior Pentagon technology officer said today. […]