Jane Rathbun has been tapped to serve as the Department of the Navy’s chief information officer (CIO) on a more permanent basis, officially dropping the “acting” title as of Oct. 29. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is “very excited” about its recent request for information from industry about a key part of DoD’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities – a defense official said on Nov. 2. […]

In step with President Biden’s executive order on AI released earlier this week, the Department of Defense (DoD) is also taking steps to accelerate the adoption of agile artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks told reporters during an on-camera press briefing on November 2. […]

As the Department of Defense (DoD) is moving toward greater utilization of digital engineering, the agency is looking to increase collaboration within the DoD and across the Federal government through creation of the annual Federal Digital Engineering Forum (FEDDEF). […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) hosted its second technology demonstration to assess and fast-track technologies it considers critical for its Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) effort, the department announced last week. […]

Are you a current or former service member or government employee with knowledge of UFO-related incidents? If the answer is yes, the Pentagon wants to hear from you. […]

A newly introduced bill would require the Department of Defense (DoD) to add more artificial intelligence programs and perform more tasks around regulating AI models implemented at the department. […]

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., is urging the Pentagon’s Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) unit to take an offensive stance against the Chinese hacking group who breached the State Department, Commerce Department, and House of Representatives emails earlier this year. […]

Top officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are getting first use of the department’s secret-level version of Microsoft 365 delivered in an Impact Level 6 (IL6) cloud environment – and aptly named DoD365-Secret – a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

After a year of planning, military service branches and defense agencies have submitted their zero trust security implementation plans to the Department of Defense (DoD) zero trust team for evaluation, according to the department’s zero trust lead. […]

Today, witnesses at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing agreed that the Department of Defense’s (DoD) newly announced ‘Replicator’ initiative is a step in the right direction, but raised a similar concern: can the DoD execute this ambitious plan in its two-year timeframe? […]

Federal agencies are increasingly adopting edge computing, citing its transformative power to enable field agents and military personnel to make faster decisions and respond to crisis situations, experts said. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) are keeping people and end users at the center of new technology initiatives, top officials from those agencies said on Tuesday. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is going to release the evaluation criteria for Continuous Authorization To Operate (cATO) next week, according to George Lamb, the director of cloud and software modernization in the DoD’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking for industry to help provide the Air Force Installation Contracting Center (AFICC) with new “integrated realistic training environment” capabilities, according to a recently published contract opportunity. […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has made it clear that Federal agencies can and must dutifully monitor whether their contractors comply with the E-Verify program that focuses on verifying the legal eligibility of employees to work in the U.S. […]

Federal contractors and their employees are gaining extensive new whistleblower protections under a new regulation devised by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council, the Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), and NASA. […]

Sanja Basaric, the artificial intelligence program lead at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is departing from her role this week to head over to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). […]

The Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), and NASA are looking to implement new revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to standardize cybersecurity requirements for government contractors. […]

Defense Department (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman said today that he is considering issuing strong, formal guidance to military service branches to get moving faster on the long-sought goal of reducing technical debt throughout the military and particularly on the IT and cybersecurity fronts.   […]

The U.S. defense enterprise is in a strategic predicament; the challenge for the Department of Defense (DoD) is no longer why or when innovation is needed, but instead how to innovate. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) on Sept. 20 announced its first set of awards under the CHIPS Act totaling $240 million to establish eight microelectronics commons innovation hubs. […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Department of Defense (DoD) needs to do better in mitigating the effects of restrictive practices by cloud service vendors – from choice of provider to the cost of cloud services – as it moves its data and software to the cloud. […]

The Defense Department (DoD) needs to do a better job at tracking and reporting cloud computing data transfer user fees, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report out this week. […]

The Pentagon submitted its proposed rule to implement the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program to the White House for review in July and is now gearing up for the next phase of the rulemaking process: industry comments. […]

Comply-to-Connect began in 2013 as the Department of Defense’s (DoD) program to help the service branches prevent unsecured devices from connecting to the DoD network. Long before that, in the mid-to-late 1990s, Michael Overstreet served as an Air Force information warfare officer working on cyber defense. Now, Overstreet is director of systems engineering at Cisco, and in this recent interview, he discusses how Comply-to-Connect has evolved – and how it today uses zero trust principles to protect access to the DoD network and data. […]

Top defense and intelligence officials shared this week the trends that worry them the most when it comes to the constantly evolving cyber threat landscape and what their top priorities are on the horizon given current world events and emerging cyber threat trends. […]

The Department of the Air Force on Aug. 31 issued a broad agency announcement (BAA) on the development of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to support the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has plans to establish a user experience portfolio management office and hire a senior official to lead the office, a DoD spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is teaming up with the U.S. Space Force in a newly issued solicitation focused on creating a “tactically responsive” space system prototype that can be deployed and utilized within 24-hour notice. […]