The Department of Defense’s artificial intelligence chief said agencies within the department that manage AI should understand their own data before looking for or creating new tools. During a Defense One interview, Pentagon Chief Digital and AI Officer Dr. Craig Martell shared that the Defense Digital Service, the Joint AI Office, the Office of the […]
Officials within the Department of Homeland Security are encouraging DHS components to improve customer experience through digital technologies implementation and staffing model changes. The Homeland Security Advisory Council issued several recommendations on improving customer experience after accepting the final report from its Customer Experience and Service Delivery Subcommittee during a meeting on Dec. 6. The […]
The undersecretary of the Department of the Army said using an open systems architecture could provide numerous benefits to the service’s electronic warfare capabilities. Speaking at the Army Technical Exchange Meeting, Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo shared that the service needs to identify how to use software-based capabilities in countering, addressing and responding to EW threats […]
U.S. and Israeli military cyber units trained together at the Georgia Cyber Center to defeat threats in the information space. During the Cyber Dome VII event, personnel fought against a fictional Mediterranean dictator and his team of hackers. Paul Mays, a Cyber Dome VII event organizer who works for the Cyber National Mission Force, said […]
The U.S. Senate has approved a bill designed to improve the federal government’s protections against quantum computing-enabled threats. Once enacted, the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act will require the Office of Management and Budget to prioritize the acquisition of and migration to IT systems with post-quantum cryptography. The White House will also be required to […]
The U.S. Air Force‘s Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation team has announced that its operational capability data-as-a-service offering was launched into production on Cloud One. DaaS provides authorized users with easy yet secure access to data for Air Force applications. It serves as a conduit that connects the data source to application teams developing […]
NASA’s Orion spacecraft landed in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja, California, on Sunday evening following its lunar flight test. During the Artemis I test, the Orion spacecraft flew over 1.4 million miles on a path around the moon and back to Earth. NASA tested Orion’s ability to cope with the harsh environment of deep […]
The Department of Defense has awarded Carahsoft Technology a new Enterprise Software Initiative blanket purchase agreement that would extend the DOD’s access to asset management and cybersecurity solutions. Under the new ESI BPA and two other previously-awarded BPAs, Carahsoft and its authorized reseller partners will be able to provide software, maintenance support, IT professional services […]
The first three security solutions providers under the Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator have started technical assessments of their authentication solutions for distributed energy resources. The technical assessment phase will see Blue Ridge Networks, Sierra Nevada Corp. and Xage participate in a six-month acceleration period where their solutions will be evaluated in the Advanced Research on […]
The Naval Aviation Systems Consortium has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $98.5 million other transaction authority contract to support the Joint Economical Sled Track Rockets program. Under the OTA deal, Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop and manufacture new motors and sleds for the JESTR program. The components form part of test tracks that the Department of Defense […]
