Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Justin Doubleday was managing editor of Inside the Pentagon until June 2021, where he focused on defense-wide topics including budgets, acquisition policy, combatant commands, missile defense and cyber. He has also worked for ITP sister publications Inside the Army and Inside the Navy. Justin previously reported for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2013.
The Defense Department wants $15 million in fiscal year 2020 to set up a secure cloud services database where small and mid-sized defense contractors can access sensitive defense information, potentially negating the need for them to manage and protect the data on their own networks.
The Pentagon’s research and engineering directorate has a lead for cybersecurity, the Defense Department’s technology chief announced today.
The Defense Department is requesting $75 million in fiscal year 2020 for a new fund to increase U.S. financing of dual-use technologies currently propped up by investments from China.
The Defense Innovation Board held its first public meeting today to discuss the artificial intelligence principles the U.S. military should adopt as the Defense Department seeks a major push to develop and field AI capabilities.
Top Defense Department leadership criticized Google today for an "unwillingness" to work with the U.S. military while still pursuing work in China that they say benefits the Chinese military.
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence hosted its inaugural meeting earlier this week to receive briefings from the Defense Department, the Commerce Department, the intelligence community and members of Congress.
The Pentagon wants to pour nearly $1 billion into artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts next year, including $268 million for the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to pursue AI tools that can be used across the department, as well as helping the military services fund their own developments.
The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2020 budget request assumes the Defense Department will shift $7.7 billion saved through various reform efforts, including divesting legacy weapon systems, with the money going toward high-priority “lethality” investments.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking to quickly pursue advances in artificial intelligence through 90-day competitions for other transaction agreements as part of its $2 billion AI Next campaign.
The Pentagon has initiated the transfer of the National Background Investigation Service program and other security clearance functions to the Defense Security Service, according to the Defense Information Systems Agency.
U.S. Cyber Mission Force teams have "generally low" readiness levels, as senior Defense Department leaders prioritized completing the build-up of the force to meet a self-imposed deadline rather than sufficiently training the teams, according to the Government Accountability Office.
A Reagan Institute task force comprised of lawmakers, former defense officials and industry executives is set to examine the "national security innovation base" and what the United States needs to achieve technologically to prevail in great power competition.
White House officials implementing a new executive order on artificial intelligence say their aim is to remove regulatory barriers for private industry to make advances in AI, with a particular focus on making up for China's advantage in data access.
The Defense Department is increasing collaboration in cyberspace with the private sector through several "pathfinder" projects, but the military should not step in to solve security issues that are largely the responsibility of private industry, according to a DOD official.
The Pentagon has delineated exactly how the chief information officer and the chief management officer will share overseeing the Defense Department's $42 billion in annual IT spending, according to DOD officials.
The Pentagon has 19 pathfinders, ranging from individual weapon systems to program executive offices, leveraging the work of a new initiative to make agile software development tools available across the Defense Department, according to the official in charge of the effort.
Oracle's protest against the potentially $10 billion Joint Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure program is on pause as the Pentagon investigates "new information" in determining whether conflicts of interest tainted the competition in favor of Amazon Web Services.
The Pentagon has established a new Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture to ensure the military's cyber capabilities are better integrated, according to the head of U.S. Cyber Command.
U.S. Strategic Command is setting up a new organization to oversee the Defense Department's disparate nuclear command, control and communications systems, as well as lead the development of next-generation NC3 requirements.
The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to score defense companies on cybersecurity, similar to measuring credit scores, as one Defense Department official says DOD's current efforts regarding contractor cybersecurity are not sufficient.