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. […]

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) – which operates within the Department of Defense (DoD) to accelerate the military’s adoption of leading commercial technologies – is looking to industry for space-based solutions that can supply and augment communications capabilities. […]

Legislation introduced in the House and Senate this week aims to speed development of the Defense Department’s (DoD) Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking comments ahead of several revisions it plans to make to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), according to an advance notice of proposed rulemaking published to the Federal Register on Nov. 17. […]

The U.S. Army unveiled on Monday its first doctrinal publication codifying the military uses of data and information in multidomain operations. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is asking for industry input on a potential acquisition of technology that will enhance the U.S. Army’s blue-force tracker system through the use of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tech, according to a new request for information (RFI) from DoD. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) recently announced the launch of a new digital learning platform that will educate its workforce on AI capabilities and other emerging technologies.   […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to use new bio-based tools to predict and optimize team performance that will further the capabilities of teams operating within the Department of Defense (DoD). […]

A recently released report from the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) finds that DoD doesn’t have enough accountability over devices that collect biometric data.    […]

The Pentagon on Nov. 17 publicly released new strategic guidance for operations in the information environment, which calls for a shift in how the Defense Department (DoD) approaches the integration of “informational and physical power.”  […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is continuing to make progress on its responsible AI efforts, including by issuing its Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI) Toolkit that is now available to the public. […]

Jane Rathbun has been tapped to serve as the Department of the Navy’s chief information officer (CIO) on a more permanent basis, officially dropping the “acting” title as of Oct. 29. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is “very excited” about its recent request for information from industry about a key part of DoD’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities – a defense official said on Nov. 2. […]

In step with President Biden’s executive order on AI released earlier this week, the Department of Defense (DoD) is also taking steps to accelerate the adoption of agile artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks told reporters during an on-camera press briefing on November 2. […]

As the Department of Defense (DoD) is moving toward greater utilization of digital engineering, the agency is looking to increase collaboration within the DoD and across the Federal government through creation of the annual Federal Digital Engineering Forum (FEDDEF). […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) hosted its second technology demonstration to assess and fast-track technologies it considers critical for its Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) effort, the department announced last week. […]

Are you a current or former service member or government employee with knowledge of UFO-related incidents? If the answer is yes, the Pentagon wants to hear from you. […]

A newly introduced bill would require the Department of Defense (DoD) to add more artificial intelligence programs and perform more tasks around regulating AI models implemented at the department. […]

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., is urging the Pentagon’s Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) unit to take an offensive stance against the Chinese hacking group who breached the State Department, Commerce Department, and House of Representatives emails earlier this year. […]

Top officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are getting first use of the department’s secret-level version of Microsoft 365 delivered in an Impact Level 6 (IL6) cloud environment – and aptly named DoD365-Secret – a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

After a year of planning, military service branches and defense agencies have submitted their zero trust security implementation plans to the Department of Defense (DoD) zero trust team for evaluation, according to the department’s zero trust lead. […]

Today, witnesses at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing agreed that the Department of Defense’s (DoD) newly announced ‘Replicator’ initiative is a step in the right direction, but raised a similar concern: can the DoD execute this ambitious plan in its two-year timeframe? […]

Federal agencies are increasingly adopting edge computing, citing its transformative power to enable field agents and military personnel to make faster decisions and respond to crisis situations, experts said. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) are keeping people and end users at the center of new technology initiatives, top officials from those agencies said on Tuesday. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is going to release the evaluation criteria for Continuous Authorization To Operate (cATO) next week, according to George Lamb, the director of cloud and software modernization in the DoD’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). […]