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 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 Department of Defense (DoD) is well on its way to implementing an enterprise-wide zero trust architecture following review of implementation plans from DoD organizations, the department’s zero trust lead said today, although the process has not been without its bumps in the road. […]

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. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report that the Pentagon’s independent oversight office for intelligence activities – created in 1982 and headed by the Defense Department’s (DoD) senior intelligence oversight official (SIOO) – must be strengthened to avoid future risks to the program. […]

The Pentagon’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in 2024 will begin to implement and start building out on actions it created solid foundations for last year, a top Defense Department (DoD) official said today. […]

The head of the Defense Department’s (DoD) Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office said this week that he is looking for firms to focus on product integration possibilities as they pitch zero trust security strategies to the Pentagon. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) needs new guidance aimed at better securing artificial intelligence (AI) systems and data in the department, according to a top DoD official. […]

The U.S. Army is looking for industry input as the service branch seeks to develop a new Army Military Payroll (AMP) “total solution,” according to a request for proposal (RFP) issued on Jan. 18. […]

Top Pentagon officials began a three-week tour across the nation this week to connect with the Defense Department’s (DoD) Microelectronics Commons Hubs sites, as well as local government leaders, and experts from industry and academia. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded a new Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) for the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC) that the Pentagon said will aim to “enable rapid research and allow access to commercial solutions for defense requirements and innovations from industry, academia, and non-traditional contractors.” […]

The Defense Department (DoD) is in the process of sifting through options to develop the next iteration of the military’s cyber forces, a senior Pentagon official said on Jan. 17. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is currently developing two new strategies, including the first commercial space integration strategy, to better advance the space and cyber goals at the Pentagon. […]

The Atlantic Council’s Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption released its final report today, providing recommendations and case studies for overcoming the challenges the United States faces in maintaining its technological and military advantage and increasing the pace of innovation adoption. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) released its first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) today, with an aim to catalyze generational change from the existing defense industrial base (DIB) and create a more robust, resilient, and dynamic modernized defense industrial ecosystem. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking for education providers in the cybersecurity and technology arenas to apply to the agency’s Cyber Workforce Qualification Program to receive accreditation through the Defense Department. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking for industry’s insight to help create a digital platform that will enable the agency  to manage contracts seamlessly, easily, and effectively, according to a new open call put out by DoD on Dec. 28, 2023. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) laid out new guidance on Dec. 22 covering how digital engineering practices should be implemented and used for developing and sustaining defense systems at the Pentagon. […]

The Defense Department (DoD) on Dec. 26 published its latest proposed overhaul of the agency’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 program that would set three levels of cybersecurity compliance for defense industrial base (DIB) contractors, and allow for contractors to perform security self-assessments at some of the lower requirement levels. […]

With the new year upon us, here’s a round-up of some of the biggest tech and cybersecurity policy moves at the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2023 that have set the stage for the Pentagon’s IT priorities in 2024. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Digital Service (DDS) has announced that its Hack the Pentagon program has launched a continuous bug bounty program that will expand to the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) assets and beyond. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced it is looking to provide a minimum viable capability (MVC) of Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities – to the Joint Force by the end of the year. […]

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – a Department of Defense (DoD) component – has awarded Northrop Grumman a $700 million contract to provide a cloud and sensor solution to deliver faster intelligence to warfighters. […]

In 2021, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence concluded that the Pentagon’s AI talent deficit is one of the greatest impediments to the United States being AI-ready by the target date of 2025. The Department of Defense (DoD) identified cultivating a workforce with AI expertise as a strategic focus area in 2018, but a new report finds that the DoD can’t fully identify who is part of its AI workforce or which positions require personnel with AI skills. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report that the Department of Defense (DoD) needs to take action to improve its workforce planning in quantum computing across its research facilities. […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) innovation arm has been working hard and fast since 2015 to leverage emerging commercial technologies to better enable warfighters, but the lead of the unit said today that the defense organization is not yet where it needs to be to successfully deter a potential conflict with China. […]

With ever-growing cyber threats across the digital landscape, the Department of Defense (DoD) is looking to ramp up its ongoing bug bounty program – known as Hack the Pentagon – to help the agency find undiscovered cybersecurity weaknesses. […]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) – one of 11 combatant commands of the U.S. Defense Department (DoD) and with areas of responsibility including the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia – has tappedDr. Michael Foster to serve as chief data officer (CDO). […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) count of software factories operating across the agency has reached approximately 50 as the Pentagon works to put in place tenets of the software strategy implementation plan that it released in March of this year, said Lily Zeleke, deputy chief information officer (CIO) for the Information Enterprise Office in DoD’s Office of the CIO. […]