U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George disclosed that the service branch is looking at how industry can contribute to the consolidated architecture of the service’s planned Next Generation Command and Control. One of the key results that George wants from the NGC2 program is for service members to collaborate easily on the field using […]
Arlington, Virginia-based nonprofit CRDF Global announced that it has secured a subcontract to support Advanced Engineering Solutions & Services in the Counter-Narcotics and Global Threats Operations, Logistics and Training Support program of the Department of Defense and its partner countries. The U.S. Air Force awarded AES2 and 17 other companies the $960 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task […]
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office and the Defense Innovation Unit will jointly experiment with digital solutions for Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control initiatives under a memorandum of agreement that the two Department of Defense agencies signed on Tuesday. One of the CJADC2 projects that CDAO is continuing to pursue in 2024 is […]
The U.S. Army is exploring the possibility of including computing-as-a-service in its network portfolio, after testing as-a-service setups for satellite communications and radio equipment, said Mark Kitz, head of the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications-Tactical. According to Kitz, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, the service is considering the arrangement […]
Leidos announced the completion of conceptual design and system requirement reviews for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Mayhem air-breathing hypersonic system, on which the company is the main contractor. Tiffany Creamer, Leidos’ Mayhem program manager, described Mayhem as “a leap forward in hypersonic capabilities,” while conveying Leidos’ excitement about the reviews’ results. A Congressional Research Service […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued its inaugural road map to guide the Intelligence Community’s decision-making on information technology transformation, with specific targets on program implementation. The 23-page guidance, titled “Vision for the IC Information Environment: An Information Technology Roadmap,” focuses on five areas, each with key initiatives, such as enhancing […]
Downloading data from the U.S. Army network through commercial internet to soldier and civilian devices, such as laptops and cellphones, will be disabled by June 11, according to Maj. Gen. Chris Eubank, commander of Network Enterprise Technology Command. Eubank told Federal News Network in an interview that internet access to Army information will still be […]
AutogenAI, a London-based global software company focused on artificial intelligence-based writing solutions, has announced the appointment of Mitchell Sutika-Sipus, a former White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, as chief solutions architect. Sutika-Sipus will help AutogenAI clients navigate the U.S. federal proposal writing process, utilizing the company’s AI machine-learning platforms and his experience in government regulations compliance, […]
The Department of Energy has launched the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security and Technology program to speed up the federal government’s AI research efforts. According to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the FASST initiative would bank on the supercomputing facilities and the scientific expertise of the 17 national laboratories under the DOE. The […]
The FBI has disclosed that 12 countries joined Operation Endgame, launched on May 28 as the first coordinated global law enforcement drive against cybercriminals. According to the bureau, authorities from the United States, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom synchronized the operation, with the help of the European Union’s Europol and Eurojust. […]
