The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is ramping up efforts to integrate generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into its operations unveiling a new experimental GenAI chatbot. […]
The Senate voted to confirm Melissa Dalton to be the next Under Secretary for the Department of the Air Force, filling a role that has been vacant for over a year, the department announced last week. […]
President Biden has nominated Maj. Gen. Thomas K. Hensley to lead the Air Force’s information warfare command, the Pentagon announced today. […]
The U.S. Air Force is calling on industry for solutions to improve the service branch’s sensor architecture and degrade adversaries’ ability to target U.S. forces. […]
For the first time ever, an experimental fighter jet squared off against an F-16 aircraft in an artificial intelligence (AI) – fueled simulated dogfight, the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced last week. […]
The Department of the Air Force’s CIO office has named Keith Hardiman director of enterprise information technology, according to a LinkedIn post. […]
The U.S. Air Force is turning to the private sector for input on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies that could be integrated into its command-and-control (C2) modernization efforts. […]
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. […]
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 U.S. Air Force has added 17 companies to positions on a $499 million contract that aims to develop anti-tampering technology that can be used to protect critical programs and information from adversarial attacks. The multi-year contract is part of the Air Force Life Cycle Management at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, which […]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has put artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy technologies on its list of top research priorities for 2024, along with a host of areas more specific to weapons systems. […]
A new U.S. Air Force operational doctrine publication released by the service branch last month covering electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) operations is setting forth goals for the Air Force and U.S. military joint forces to create competitive advantages in the EMS arena. […]
Many Federal agencies are looking to use AI as a key cybersecurity tool, but before agencies get too far ahead of themselves, U.S. Air Force Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) Winston Beauchamp said on Tuesday that the number one thing agencies can do to improve their cybersecurity posture is to modernize their IT architecture. […]
The U.S. Air Force and Space Force face a tough race for technological superiority with China, which continues to modernize its air and space forces to project power in the Indo-Pacific region, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said this week. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking for industry to help provide the Air Force Installation Contracting Center (AFICC) with new “integrated realistic training environment” capabilities, according to a recently published contract opportunity. […]
The U.S. Department of the Air Force has appointed Venice Goodwine as the service branch’s new chief information officer (CIO), replacing Lauren Knausenberger, who departed the Air Force in June. […]
Alexis Bonnell, who late last month became the Air Force Research Laboratory’s first chief information officer and director of its new Digital Capabilities Directorate, is viewing her new duties with a “bias to action … that lets me take risk, be curious, and lean in.” […]
As the U.S. Air Force and Space Force move toward expanding their Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), the service branches are looking to brew up competition among private sector organizations of all sizes to grow ABMS capabilities, said Gen. Luke Cropsey, the Air Force’s Integrating Program Executive Officer for Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management. […]
The United States Air Force has awarded Maxar a $20 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to boost the capabilities of its Red Wing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) platform through new algorithms and other advancements including AI tech. […]
The U.S. Air Force awarded General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) a $137.8 million contract last week to provide support for the special warfare acquisition growth and refresh, Guardian Angel operations, and tactical air control party modernization programs. […]
U.S. Air Force Chief Information Officer (CIO) Lauren Knausenberger detailed her team’s efforts on the zero trust security migration during a Billington Cybersecurity webinar this week, and said that move to new security paradigm has generated traction and “unity of effort unlike I have seen in my tenure.” […]
The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is calling for new quantum information science (QIS) solutions – including advanced algorithm designs and quantum networking – under a broad agency announcement (BAA) unveiled last week. […]
With the COVID-19 pandemic having subsided to an ominous simmer, the U.S. Air Force is finding that hybrid work policies are proving their value, and sometimes grade out as more effective than the pre-pandemic traditional work model. […]
As Lt. Col. Max Reele, material leader at the U.S. Air Force’s Kessel Run agile software development unit, readies for a possible departure in the next two months, he said this week that he wants to leave the organization in a “really healthy place.” […]
U.S. Air Force Chief Information Officer (CIO) Lauren Knausenberger is stepping down from her post in June, an Air Force spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]
The Space Development Agency (SDA) is seeking an industry partner to develop, implement, and sustain a Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) application factory, according to a solicitation released on Feb. 14. […]
Harness, a San Francisco-based provider of software delivery platforms, said last week that several of its product modules have been accepted into Platform One, which the U.S. Air Force operates as its DevSecOps platform. […]
The Department of the Air Force is focusing its modernization efforts on functional analysis, the agency’s chief information officer (CIO) said today, as a way to help accelerate legacy mission system migrations to the cloud. […]
The U.S. Air Force Space Command has released the final solicitation for a new multiple-award contract to acquire cloud-based data software services. […]
While the U.S. Air Force has taken positive steps to develop the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), it has yet to deliver or identify any capabilities of the system, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]