Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro released on Thursday the Department of the Navy’s updated strategic guidance, which lists strengthening maritime dominance as one of the service’s three priorities. The guidance, titled “One Navy-Marine Corps Team: Advancing Department of the Navy Priorities,” also identifies building a culture of warfighting excellence and enhancing strategic partnerships as its […]
Rear Adm. Jonathan Rucker, the U.S. Navy’s program executive officer for attack submarines, told lawmakers on Wednesday that meeting build targets will depend on 3D printing. The service branch seeks to build one Columbia-class and two Virginia-class submarines annually, Defense One reported Thursday. Testifying before a House Armed Services subcommittee, Rucker stressed that the technology […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory will hold its second Airlift Challenge Competition from Oct. 30, 2023, to Feb. 19, 2024, wherein the participants will deploy artificial intelligence-based solutions on simulated airlift scenarios. The event, which AFRL first held from Jan. 23 to Feb. 27, pursues advanced algorithm development for airlift planning and execution. According to […]
Integrated planning software developer Decision Lens announced that it will enhance programming, budgeting and execution processes behind a $19 billion portfolio of the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command – Centralized Asset Management. Such efforts will cover the management and sustainment of unfunded requirements within the portfolio, Decision Lens said Wednesday. Lance DeSpain, the company’s vice […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting proposals to perform a study on potential cognitive attacks on mixed reality devices and develop prototypes of MR systems using mathematical approaches, known as formal methods, designed to secure the equipment from such attacks. Work, split into two phases, will be performed under DARPA’s Intrinsic Cognitive Security […]
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office is planning to use a secure data mesh solution for the Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control vision. According to CDAO, its vision for CJADC2’s data integration layer would include a data mesh that uses the zero trust cybersecurity protocol, as well as a combination […]
The United States is implementing its 2022 National Defense Strategy in Israel’s war against Hamas, as well as in supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion, a Department of Defense official said in a Brookings Institution event Tuesday. Mara Karlin assistant secretary of defense for strategies plans and capabilities, told the event’s attendees that the Hamas […]
The Department of Defense is set to advance its zero trust implementation efforts on Monday with the expected submission of 43 action plans from the military services and component agencies. The DOD tasked its organizations to detail how they aim to achieve zero trust by 2027, Federal News Network reported. Randy Resnick, director of the […]
Bombardier Defense announced that it has delivered the seventh Global 6000 aircraft to the U.S. Air Force under the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node program. All BACN aircraft, known as E-11A in the Air Force, serve as high-altitude communication relay platforms – a capability called “Wi-Fi in the sky.” Bombardier delivered the Global 6000 aircraft under […]
Laura Taylor-Kale, assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy, said the Department of Defense intends to publish its first National Defense Industrial Strategy in December. Speaking at the recent 2023 Defense Conference, she noted that the document will focus on crafting a roadmap to guide programs, policies and investments to strengthen U.S. industrial infrastructure, […]
