The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has resorted to adopting the Air Force’s Cloud One environment for its AI work, indefinitely, as legal proceedings relative to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure continues to drag on. Talking about the agency’s decision to move forward with plan B, JAIC Director Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan explained that the U.S. […]
The Department of Defense and its mission partners can rely on the milCloud 2.0 platform to address their cloud service needs for mission-critical activities, according to an official from General Dynamics Information Technology. Jeffrey Phelan, milCloud 2.0 and DOD cloud services portfolio lead for GDIT, said the platform was specifically designed to support acquisitions, security […]
The Navy is hoping that its new $7.7B Next Generation Enterprise Network contract can consolidate the agency's legacy information technology networks under the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet umbrella. Known as NGEN-R, the re-compete contract was won by Leidos, but the award is being held up by General Dynamics IT's bid protest, Federal News Network reported Thursday. […]
Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, believes that it is imperative for the agency to establish its own acquisition authority in order to efficiently deliver AI technology across the Department of Defense. Shanahan, a 2020 Wash100 winner, expounded on the matter during an AFCEA virtual event, expressing urgency that the […]
Steve McMahon, Splunk's interim chief information officer, has shared how his organization adapted to the information technology pressure brought by the shift to telework. "We shifted all of our services to being targeted toward remote workers. And that’s something that I think has really helped keep our employee productivity very high, because we’re meeting employees […]
The Department of Defense is working on coordinating its enterprise-wide artificial intelligence efforts by establishing a series of technical standards and best practices. Mark Lewis, director of research and engineering for modernization within the Office of the Director of Defense, is leading the charge in corralling all AI programs, which are spread out across the […]
Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, is setting his sights on partnering with commercial firms specializing in data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to foster the service’s Advanced Battle Management System. The goal is to award ABMS contracts to high-priority firms within a month to six weeks, […]
Implementing zero-trust frameworks is the next step in advancing the Small Business Administration's cybersecurity tools and strategies, said Guy Cavallo, the agency's chief information officer. “Our next step is to take all of this to every one of the 115 different SBA locations to zero-trust networking and break apart from everything being connected and once you […]
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for a machine learning platform that can improve the utility of the Department of Defense's robotic process automation tools for business tasks. DIU said it wants its RPA tools to become better at solving complex patterns by leveraging pattern recognition techniques and being more adaptable to different scenarios, FedScoop […]
Three senators have proposed a new bill called the "‘Cybersecurity Competitions to Yield Better Efforts to Research the Latest Exceptionally Advanced Problems Act of 2020," or CYBER LEAP Act, aimed at promoting prize-based grand challenges to improve the country’s cybersecurity posture. Primarily, the CYBER LEAP Act, if passed, would mandate the Commerce Secretary to establish […]
