The Defense Intelligence Agency is building a software factory at the unclassified level, whose standards and processes can be adopted by Five Eyes nations when developing their own software, thereby making data sharing easier, DIA Deputy Chief Information Officer E.P. Mathew said in a speech during the recent ACT-IAC Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference. The […]
More Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services have secured authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, increasing the number of OCI offerings available to civilian, defense and intelligence community customers. According to Rand Waldron, vice president of the global government sector at Oracle, the FedRAMP approval assures government agencies that the cloud services employ security […]
U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan said on Wednesday at a Brookings Institution event that the agency has completed its information technology acquisitions and noted it is time to put those capabilities to work by using artificial intelligence and machine learning to make its operations more efficient. The setting up of the Office of […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted moderate-level clearance to five Software AG Government Solutions offerings. According to a press release, the entirety of the company’s product suite is now “fully validated by government.” The Software AG solutions assessed by FedRAMP are intended to support the integration of application programming interfaces, process mining, […]
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has set in motion the Biden administration’s efforts to pursue the beneficial use of artificial intelligence while addressing and minimizing its risks through the launch of a working group on generative AI that will conduct multi-sectoral consultations prior to making recommendations to the president on how […]
U.S. Army officials said a project introduced in December would help the service get a better sense of the work needed to successfully implement artificial intelligence solutions. Bharat Patel from the Army Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, said Project Linchpin would take standard AI and machine learning operations from the private […]
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman, a 2023 Wash100 awardee, wants to fast-track the provision of top-secret cloud capabilities to warfighters as the tools are critical for ground forces operating on the battlefield. Sherman said on Thursday at DefenseScoop’s DefenseTalks that the Pentagon never had the enterprise cloud capability arising from the $9 […]
The U.S. Air Force has given $1.8 million to a team composed of Air National Guard airmen and a U.S. Army civilian from the U.S. Special Operations Command for a solution that collates phased aircraft maintenance data to provide workers, warfighters and officials with a common, real-time view of information. The software was pitched to […]
The Department of Homeland Security issued a request for information on May 5 for a cloud-enabled biometric identity and system requirement validation system. According to the RFI posted on SAM .gov, the DHS Office of Biometric Identity Management wants a tool that can perform multiple functions, such as serving as a centralized collaboration of in-house […]
Microsoft considers the accelerated and secure handover of three chips developed through the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes secure design capability a major milestone in the semiconductors and microelectronics industry. Microsoft helped develop the chips within its mission-critical Azure Government cloud infrastructure in compliance with the supply chain requirements of the Department of Defense. BAE Systems and […]
