While the Department of Defense (DoD) has immense amounts of data on recruitment, retention, and development of its military workforce, the same cannot be said for its civilian workforce. That’s why the Pentagon’s talent management office is pursuing a plan to close that data gap to improve civilian workforce operations. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) policy office has a new temporary face leading its space policy efforts, the department announced on May 17. […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is seeking to purchase commercially made tools built for spotting, surveilling, and tracking illicit maritime activities in the Indo-Pacific, according to a commercial solution opening (CSO) solicitation posted to SAM.gov last week. […]
The use of digital tools by defense acquisition programs is a widespread practice at the Department of Defense (DoD), but much of the work along the way still includes a lot of paperwork. Defense engineers are pushing for a different approach. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today that it secured $500 million for the first tranche of capabilities in its ‘Replicator’ initiative. […]
Morgan Adamski has been appointed to serve as the new executive director of U.S. Cyber Command – one of the 11 unified combatant commands of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) – according to a May 3 announcement. […]
President Biden has nominated Tonya P. Wilkerson to serve as the under secretary of defense for intelligence and security, the White House announced on May 2. […]
The Pentagon is requesting $17.2 billion to fund science and technology (S&T) projects in fiscal year (FY) 2025, with most of that money designated for artificial intelligence (AI), space technology projects, and integrated sensing and cyber efforts, according to the Defense Department’s (DoD) technology chief. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is giving defense agencies fresh direction on achieving continuous authorization for DevSecOps platforms. […]
Getting the right information to the right people at the right time is important in every industry and every geography, but it is paramount to national defense and intelligence efforts. […]
The Pentagon’s administrative and management support agency has developed and will soon implement a customer experience (CX) management plan, an agency official said on Tuesday. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reached a new milestone in its classified cloud effort by migrating more than 300,000 Department of Defense (DoD) users into the new secret environment, the agency announced via LinkedIn on April 22. […]
From poor user satisfaction to integration challenges, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) new multi-billion dollar electronic health record (EHR) system faces several barriers that affect its implementation and efficiency, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) last week established a new advisory group to guide and improve how it delivers capability-enhancing technologies into the hands of warfighters. […]
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) – an agency of the Department of Defense (DoD) that handles most of the Federal government’s personnel security vetting tasks – has chosen Edward Lane to serve as the new program executive officer (PEO) at DCSA. […]
A review of the Defense Department’s component-level zero trust security implementation plans is painting a clearer picture of trends and challenges running through the three-dozen-plus plans – including the vital importance of proper funding for components, and achieving interoperability across component zero trust plans – to meet DoD’s 2027 zero trust deployment goal. […]
The U.S. Space Force released a new plan on April 10 that realigns and reprioritizes the service branch’s steps to better integrate commercial space capabilities. […]
A new bill introduced in the House and Senate is looking to designate a principal quantum advisor to the secretary of Defense to “supercharge” the Pentagon’s approach to quantum technology. […]
Google Public Sector said today that its Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDC Hosted) service has received authorizations to host some of the most sensitive missions for the Defense Department (DoD) and U.S. intelligence community agencies. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is on track to meet its 2027 zero trust cybersecurity framework goal, top Pentagon officials said this week. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) officially approved zero trust implementation plans from all of its components last month, and the agency is now looking to focus on “minimum viable solutions” for the plans by tackling specific security-related issues each year. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) rolled out a new strategy on Tuesday which outlines how the Pentagon plans to integrate commercial space capabilities into military operations. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) are at various stages of modernizing financial management processes but face similar challenges with legacy systems and data compatibility. […]
The technical lead for the Pentagon’s new Task Force Lima said this week that his team is currently working across the Defense Department (DoD) on generative AI tech to help the services “unlock access” to troves of knowledge. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) stood up a new civilian-facing cyber policy office on March 20, the department announced last Friday. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) on Thursday announced its first ever strategy to enhance cybersecurity across the defense industrial base (DIB). […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Sasha Baker, plans to step down from her post by the end of next month, the DoD announced today. […]
Two top officials from the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) offered updates today to three of CDAO’s key programs that aim to scale AI across the Defense Department (DoD), including AI scaffolding initiatives through Alpha 1, the Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE) series, and how Task Force Lima is helping DoD adopt generative AI. […]
The fiscal year 2024 Defense Appropriations bill unveiled by the House and Senate Appropriations committees on March 21 boosts defense funding from FY2023 levels but largely splits the difference between last year’s budget and the total that the Biden administration had proposed for the current fiscal year. […]
President Biden on March 21 nominated Michael Sulmeyer to become Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy – a new position that was created by the fiscal year (FY) 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). […]