Thursday, April 25, 2024
Jaspreet Gill was the senior technology reporter for Inside the Army until January 2022. She graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a master's degree in magazine, newspaper and online journalism in 2019. Previously, she covered local upstate and central New York politics, community news and the 2018 midterm elections.
The House Armed Services Committee is proposing several legislative provisions related to the Defense Department’s cyber activities, including developing an “information collaborative environment” and establishing a program management office for enterprise-wide procurement of commercial cyber threat information products.
While the Defense Department is nearing its first phase on the implementation of its sensor to shooter capability known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control, the general in charge of the effort last week said it is still missing key components necessary for functioning in contested environments.
The Defense Department in the fall could have a decision on the status of the implementation of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program’s final rule, the chief executive officer of the program’s accreditation body said today.
The inspectors general of the Defense Department and the National Security Agency will conduct a joint investigation to assess NSA's integration of artificial intelligence after previously scrapping the investigation last month.
The White House Office of Management and Budget yesterday released a memorandum for implementing security measures for "critical software" through a phased approach in the wake of an executive order on improving the nation's cybersecurity.
The Joint Requirements Oversight Council will be conducting an integrated air and missile defense capability gap assessment as part of its next requirement for the Joint Warfighting Concept following four recently signed "strategic directives."
The Pentagon is establishing a new, two-star-run Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center under U.S. Strategic Command as result of a new directive signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
President Biden intends to nominate David Honey to be deputy under secretary of defense for research and engineering, according to a White House announcement.
The Pentagon's efforts to recruit and retain its civilian cyber workforce can be impacted by its quality assurance process, which does not ensure compliance with its coding guide, according to a report by the Defense Department inspector general.
A lawmaker on the House Armed Services Committee is proposing a mission-based pilot program that would restructure funding so that it's tied to specific missions, instead of specific hardware.
The House Armed Services cyber, innovative technologies and information systems subcommittee wants the Defense Department to carry out a five-year pilot program focused on improving the transition of science and technology programs and consider if "flexible funding" would help move technologies into full implementation.
Concerned with the pace of modernization across the Defense Department, the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to ramp up funding to accelerate the development of cutting-edge technologies and to strengthen cyber and supply chain security.
A group of House Armed Services Committee members have developed six legislative proposals for inclusion in the fiscal year 2022 defense policy bill to address critical risks in the U.S. defense supply chain stemming from foreign dependencies, especially China.
The Defense Department needs to overhaul its acquisition system if it wants to outpace China in cutting-edge weapons development, according to a former Pentagon modernization official.
The Defense Department is "behind the curve" in getting an enterprise cloud capability and cannot have further delays following the cancelation of the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program, the top lawmaker on the House Armed Services cyber and technology subcommittee told Inside Defense today.
The Pentagon will invest $1.5 billion over the next five years into the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday.
Amazon Web Services said today it agreed with the Defense Department's decision to cancel the multibillion-dollar Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud contract, and the company added it would continue to support DOD’s efforts.
The Defense Department has not consistently secured or managed its additive manufacturing systems or design data, increasing cybersecurity risks and potentially allowing adversaries to steal design technology, according to a recent DOD inspector general's report.
The Defense Department announced today it has canceled the multibillion-dollar Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud solicitation and is pursuing a new multivendor cloud effort called the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability. (UPDATED)
Google, McAfee and ZScaler all received success memoranda for their prototype solutions for the Defense Innovation Unit's "Secure Cloud Management" program, enabling Pentagon organizations to contract with the companies for solutions without a recompete, DIU announced today.