Lt. Gen. John “Jack” Shanahan, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, believes that AI will facilitate an enterprise-wide warfare transformation in the Department of Defense within the next 20 years, affecting areas from back offices to the battlefield and domains from undersea to cyberspace and outer space. However, Shanahan told Dave Deptula, dean of […]
The Space Development Agency has announced plans to launch hypersonic missile defense satellites into low Earth orbit by late 2021. SDA said it is seeking sources that can help integrate a missile-warning sensor with a satellite bus and launch it into orbit. The agency's "tracking phenomenology experiment" is part of its $11B plan deploy a constellation […]
Bob Kolasky, assistant director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s National Risk Management Center, believes that the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification is one of the best efforts launched by the U.S. government, considering its potential to transform the defense industrial base supply chain. Although the CMMC still has a long way to go, […]
Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan has asked several federal agencies to explain their modernization plans in the face of heightened information technology issues during the coronavirus pandemic. Hassan sent letters containing six questions to the Office of Personnel Management, Small Business Administration, Social Security Administration and the departments of the Treasury, Homeland Security, Defense, Interior, Education, […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center has pioneered the federal use of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform in the Azure for Government cloud to facilitate health care payment and delivery in the U.S. Data management company NewWave provided the cloud-native data processing capability for CMMI in line with the health care agency’s […]
Several major defense contractors told their investors they are confident in their financial futures for 2020 and 2021 despite the coronavirus pandemic and the delayed federal budget process. Huntington Ingalls Industries, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman made their announcements during the annual Bernstein's Virtual Strategic Decisions Conference, USNI News reported Monday. “It will probably see […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a mathematical formula that significantly improves the ability of wireless networks, including 5G, to select and share communications frequencies. As indicated in a post on the NIST website, the new formula, which can be programmed into the transmitters of real-world networks, is about 5K times more […]
The newly proposed Advancing Blockchain Act will increase the government's focus on exploring the potential applications of blockchain technology besides cryptocurrency applications, according to proponent Rep. Brett Guthrie. Guthrie's bill is part of a legislative package of 15 emerging technology bills proposed by Republicans from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Nextgov reported. “America is a […]
Lawmakers have proposed legislation that would focus the National Science Foundation's efforts toward emerging technologies, in addition to infusing $100B in federal funding over five years to the agency. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer fronted the Endless Frontier Act to create a technology directorate within the agency, which would be renamed to the National Science and Technology […]
The Army Futures Command, the Army's modernization division, has announced plans to launch three new efforts geared toward modernizing the force. John Michael Murray, commanding general of the AFC and a 2020 Wash100 winner, said one project will be focused on having the military work alongside the technologists who lead the Pentagon's research and development […]
