The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced that David Cattler will take over as the next director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), which handles most of the Federal government’s personnel security vetting tasks. His first day on the job will be March 24. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is preparing for a leadership transition as Dr. Craig Martell, the office’s current chief, plans to step down from his post early next month, the department announced today. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has issued a final rule with revisions to the eligibility criteria for the voluntary Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity (CS) Program, greatly expanding the number of DIB companies that can participate in the program. […]
As cyberattacks are growing in severity and scale, a new FBI report has found that government facilities were the third largest target for cybersecurity hackers in 2023. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) needs to streamline its software procurement statutory, regulatory, and budgetary framework to build and maintain the nation’s software advantage, a former DoD official told lawmakers on Wednesday during a House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing. “Our nation has developed and operationalized technology solutions that have transformed our commercial sector and in […]
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is looking for vendors to help it modernize and operate its network infrastructure across the service, including at Guard and Reserve bases, according to a request for proposal (RFP) from the branch’s Enterprise IT and Cyber Infrastructure Division. […]
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have announced a new collaboration between the two organizations that aims to embrace innovative technologies for bolstering national security. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its annual intelligence community (IC) threat assessment on Monday, revealing that China, Russia, and Iran are capable of disrupting the U.S. 2024 election cycle. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) for zero trust networks outlining detailed information on curtailing adversarial lateral movements to access sensitive data in critical systems. […]
The Pentagon’s UFO office emphasized — once again — that it has found no evidence of alien technology. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unveiled its 2024-2026 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Strategy for the Intelligence Community (IC) last week, laying the path to modernize its approach to collecting, creating, and delivering OSINT. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) delivered its first investment strategy today highlighting the Pentagon’s initial technology priorities for public sector investment in fiscal year (FY) 2024. […]
As the Department of the Navy looks to enable better and faster decisions for warfighters, Chief Information Officer (CIO) Jane Rathbun said the service branch is infusing AI at the edge to improve decision-making. […]
The U.S. Army is seeking insight from industry on mobile weapons platforms that can counter unmanned aerial systems, according to a request for information (RFI) posted to SAM.gov. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has officially approved zero trust implementation plans from all 41 of its components as it inches closer to its goal of implementing a zero trust architecture across the entire department by 2027. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is gearing up to have its final planning meeting in April on the agency’s National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) before sharing the results of its work with Congress, a senior Pentagon technology officer said today. […]
The Senate on Feb. 28 confirmed the nomination of Aprille Joy Ericsson, a long-standing NASA aerospace engineer, to serve as an assistant secretary of defense (ASD) for science and technology at the Department of Defense’s (DoD) research office – a new position the Pentagon announced last summer. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest contracting agency in the Federal government – with contracts ranging from IT services to major weapon systems – leaving the agency inherently susceptible to fraud. A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that the Pentagon can get a better handle on mitigating fraud by leveraging data analytics. […]
The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has announced the award of a $493 million task order to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to help support technical and mission support services across USSOCOM. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has picked which systems it wants to field under the first tranche of its Replicator initiative and is now awaiting congressional approval and funding to facilitate procurement, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The search for the straight dope on UFOs – and where to host all of that information – has stretched beyond the walls of the Pentagon and become a whole-of-government affair. […]
Lily Zeleke, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) deputy chief information officer for enterprise IT (DCIO(IE), stepped down from that role on Feb. 22 and took over new responsibilities in the Department’s CIO office, Cmdr. Tim Gorman, a Pentagon spokesperson, told MeriTalk via email today. […]
While Federal agencies are awaiting President Biden’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget set for release sometime next month, a senior U.S. Navy official said this week that the service branch’s budget for digital transformation efforts has not been immune from spending pressures that agencies are facing going forward. […]
Alexis Bonnell, the chief information officer (CIO) and director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), shared with industry today the five deadly sins of digital transformation, and called on organizations to adopt a people-centric mindset. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has delivered its long-sought initial iteration of the Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) capability – the department’s AI-powered meta-network of connected sensors to coordinate all the armed forces – said Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald S. Moultrie will step down from his position at the end of this month, the Pentagon said today. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) announced that Rob Joyce, the agency’s director of cybersecurity and the deputy national manager for national security systems, will retire on March 31 after 34 years of service with the NSA. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) picked the first four projects of fiscal year (FY) 2024 that will receive funding from the DoD’s Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program. […]
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) plans to establish a Space Futures Command to develop and validate innovative concepts to meet today’s security challenges, said a senior official for the military branch. […]
With the first draft of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) out since mid-January, the challenges are many in how the strategy will be implemented and what type of roles industry will play going forward, a DoD official explained on Feb. 16. […]