Tuesday, May 14, 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 top lawmaker on the House Armed Services cyber and technology subcommittee on Tuesday expressed frustration with the Defense Department's fiscal year 2022 budget request for cybersecurity and IT, arguing it doesn't contain much substance and is a near carbon-copy of last year's request.
The Defense Department has pledged to reduce costs on small businesses in an ongoing internal review of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, according to a Pentagon official.
House appropriators are proposing trimming the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's fiscal year 2022 budget in a draft mark of their defense spending legislation.
The Defense Department within the next 30 days will start pushing its first data "reinforcements" to its combatant commands through artificial intelligence expert teams under a new plan to speed up the adoption of AI technologies.
A new report released today from the Government Accountability Office found the Defense Department faces challenges addressing cybersecurity practices and may be underreporting risks across its major business information technology programs, increasing chances of cost growth and schedule delays.
A bipartisan congressional group yesterday introduced legislation that would hold Ligado Networks responsible for covering the costs of both public and private Global Positioning System users affected by the company's use of the L-Band.
The Defense Department will launch a new artificial intelligence and data accelerator initiative within the next 90 days as part of the Joint All Domain Command and Control strategy, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said today.
The cyber domain is a vulnerable area in which the Pentagon needs to continue investing in, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley testified today with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin before the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) and Ranking Member Mike Rogers (R-AL) today released the full committee and subcommittee mark-up schedule for the fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill.
President Biden and leaders from the 30 nations that make up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization endorsed a new cyber defense policy Monday that calls for invoking its self-defense clause against cyberattacks from adversaries on a "case-by-case basis."
The Army has sent Congress a legislative proposal asking to use a multiyear contract to buy UH/HH-60M Black Hawk helicopters beginning next fiscal year that could produce significant savings for the service.
U.S. Southern Command, in its fiscal year 2022 unfunded priorities list, is asking for $40.2 million to fund Army intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, according to a memo obtained by Inside Defense.
President Biden has nominated Caral Spangler for the position of assistant secretary of the Army for financial management and comptroller, according to the White House.
The Army today released an updated list of its "key enablers" -- programs that are directly tied to the service's top modernization efforts.
The Army today released a list of all 37 programs that were reduced or delayed in its fiscal year 2022 budget request, accounting for $1.53 billion in funding for the service to internally resource for other priorities.
The Army's team in charge of upgrading its tactical network is requesting $2.7 billion in fiscal year 2022, a $537 million increase from last year for one of the service's top modernization priorities.
The Army has sent Congress a $4.4 billion unfunded priorities list for fiscal year 2022 that includes money for the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System effort and the Chinook helicopter, according to documents obtained by Inside Defense.
The Army has managed to protect its top modernization programs despite taking a hit in its fiscal year 2022 budget request, according to budget documents released last week.
The Army, after eliminating seven programs in fiscal year 2022, will reinvest $47.8 million into next generation capabilities that support multidomain operations, according to the service's budget request released today.
The Senate today approved via unanimous consent Christine Wormuth to be the next Army secretary after her confirmation was rescinded last night.