The Defense Innovation Board will convene the first public meeting to discuss artificial intelligence principles later this month at Harvard University's Belfer Center in Cambridge, MA.
Friday, April 18, 2025
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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 Innovation Board will convene the first public meeting to discuss artificial intelligence principles later this month at Harvard University's Belfer Center in Cambridge, MA.
The United Kingdom's new modernization program puts increased importance on the cyber and space domains and launches a new transformation fund for innovative technologies, but paying for the effort will require finding efficiencies in existing programs, according to a Ministry of Defence official.
The potential for House Democrats to remove their support for a nuclear triad and uncertainty surrounding how the Trump administration will proceed on arms control agreements are among the top issues threatening a "fragile" consensus on nuclear security, according to former diplomats and defense officials.
Outgoing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged Defense Department personnel to "keep the faith in our country" in a farewell note released today.
The Defense Department's chief information officer is about to get increased power to review military spending plans for information technology and cyber capabilities, as DOD makes a concerted push into cloud computing and prioritizes artificial intelligence.
An interagency working group is seeking a "rational approach" to implement what officials concede is a "complicated," wide-reaching federal ban on procuring or otherwise using technology made by Huawei, ZTE and other Chinese firms, according to officials speaking at a MITRE Corp. event this week.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will step down from his position at the end of February, telling President Trump in a resignation letter sent today that he should have a Pentagon chief whose views "are better aligned" with his.
The Justice Department today announced charges against two Chinese nationals who allegedly took part in a decade-long hacking campaign that involved stealing the personally identifiable information from more than 100,000 Navy personnel and targeted data from numerous companies, including defense and aviation firms.
The State Department has approved a possible, multibillion-dollar foreign military sale of Patriot air and missile defense interceptors to Turkey, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced last night.
Defense Department officials say their "continuous evaluation" program has already helped pare down the security clearance investigations backlog, and they plan to scale its use across all cleared personnel as the Defense Security Service takes over the federal government's background investigations mission.
Amazon Web Services has been allowed to intervene as a defendant in Oracle America's lawsuit against the federal government challenging a massive Pentagon cloud contract, as AWS argues Oracle's conflict-of-interest allegations are "meritless."
Oracle America is alleging two Defense Department officials helped craft a single-award strategy for the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud program while having "significant" conflicts of interest tied to their work with Amazon Web Services.
The Government Accountability Office's comptroller general has dismissed IBM's pre-award protest of a massive Pentagon cloud contract after Oracle brought a similar case before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims last week.
The Pentagon's newly established Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will "coordinate" all military AI projects expected to cost more than $15 million to ensure common standards and practices, with the organization expected to take on a greater role for component-specific programs once it receives more funding.
Oracle America has taken the next step in challenging the Pentagon's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud solicitation, filing suit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims after the Government Accountability Office dismissed the company's arguments last month.
The Pentagon’s highest ranking officer said today it’s "inexplicable" commercial technology companies wouldn’t want to work with the U.S. military.
The Defense Department is carrying out congressionally mandated reviews of cyber vulnerabilities in its major weapon systems and critical infrastructure through a layered approach involving multiple agencies and teams, according to a joint staff official.
The Defense Information Systems Agency will work with two companies to prototype a product for isolating potential cybersecurity risks from the internet in cloud environment, with one vendor possibly moving on to provide the technology across the Defense Department.
The Commerce Department is seeking input on how to best identify emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, that are essential to national security and could be subject to export controls.
BAE Systems and other organizations are urging the Treasury Department to clarify an interim rule expanding the scope of transactions overseen by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, as BAE argues the current rules could harm trusted, foreign-owned defense firms.