Top Pentagon officials began a three-week tour across the nation this week to connect with the Defense Department’s (DoD) Microelectronics Commons Hubs sites, as well as local government leaders, and experts from industry and academia. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded a new Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) for the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC) that the Pentagon said will aim to “enable rapid research and allow access to commercial solutions for defense requirements and innovations from industry, academia, and non-traditional contractors.” […]

The Defense Department (DoD) is in the process of sifting through options to develop the next iteration of the military’s cyber forces, a senior Pentagon official said on Jan. 17. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is currently developing two new strategies, including the first commercial space integration strategy, to better advance the space and cyber goals at the Pentagon. […]

The Atlantic Council’s Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption released its final report today, providing recommendations and case studies for overcoming the challenges the United States faces in maintaining its technological and military advantage and increasing the pace of innovation adoption. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) released its first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) today, with an aim to catalyze generational change from the existing defense industrial base (DIB) and create a more robust, resilient, and dynamic modernized defense industrial ecosystem. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking for education providers in the cybersecurity and technology arenas to apply to the agency’s Cyber Workforce Qualification Program to receive accreditation through the Defense Department. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking for industry’s insight to help create a digital platform that will enable the agency  to manage contracts seamlessly, easily, and effectively, according to a new open call put out by DoD on Dec. 28, 2023. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) laid out new guidance on Dec. 22 covering how digital engineering practices should be implemented and used for developing and sustaining defense systems at the Pentagon. […]

The Defense Department (DoD) on Dec. 26 published its latest proposed overhaul of the agency’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 program that would set three levels of cybersecurity compliance for defense industrial base (DIB) contractors, and allow for contractors to perform security self-assessments at some of the lower requirement levels. […]

With the new year upon us, here’s a round-up of some of the biggest tech and cybersecurity policy moves at the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2023 that have set the stage for the Pentagon’s IT priorities in 2024. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Digital Service (DDS) has announced that its Hack the Pentagon program has launched a continuous bug bounty program that will expand to the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) assets and beyond. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced it is looking to provide a minimum viable capability (MVC) of Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities – to the Joint Force by the end of the year. […]

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – a Department of Defense (DoD) component – has awarded Northrop Grumman a $700 million contract to provide a cloud and sensor solution to deliver faster intelligence to warfighters. […]

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. […]