The Pentagon is expected to release in the coming weeks new strategies for cyber and artificial intelligence, respectively, according to a Defense Department official.
The Pentagon is expected to release in the coming weeks new strategies for cyber and artificial intelligence, respectively, according to a Defense Department official.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis recently named U.S. Strategic Command chief Gen. John Hyten the sole person responsible for overseeing nuclear command, control and communications, Hyten said at a July 13 Mitchell Institute conference.
The Government Accountability Office has denied General Dynamics Mission Systems' protest of the rejection of its proposal for the Army's Distributed Common Ground System Increment 1, Capability Drop 1.
The Government Accountability Office has denied General Dynamics Mission Systems' protest of the rejection of its proposal for the Army's Distributed Common Ground System Increment 1, Capability Drop 1.
A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort aimed at achieving seamless multidomain operations demonstrated its capabilities in a series of flight tests with Lockheed Martin over the past year, the company said this week.
Air Force operators will now receive the first EC-37B Compass Call in 2023, not 2022 as the service expected earlier this year, a BAE Systems spokesman said this week.
The U.S. military’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will be crucial to scaling AI and machine learning across the department and into operations, as well as attracting talented engineers to work with the Defense Department, according to DOD officials.
The first two direct-commissioned officers for the Army's Cyber command have taken the oath of office at Ft. Benning, GA, and up to five more may be joining their ranks through the service's pilot program.
The Pentagon chief information officer says his office is reviewing the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure acquisition strategy, but he declined to set a new date for releasing the final solicitation.
As President Trump meets this week with fellow NATO leaders in Brussels, former State Department cybersecurity coordinator Christopher Painter says the alliance continues to work well together on cybersecurity amid larger political tensions and a general scaling back of U.S. initiatives on the issue.
The joint force is looking for institutional and operational reform in a new approach to information warfare, according to a draft joint concept obtained by Inside Defense.
The Air Force's secretive Common Mission Control Center -- viewed as a key piece of the service's multidomain command-and-control push -- is on track to reach early operational capability next year and initial operational capability in 2020, a service official tells Inside Defense.
In its mark of fiscal year 2019 defense spending legislation, the Senate Appropriations Committee is recommending an additional $100 million to speed advanced sensor development for the Air Force's Space-Based Infrared System follow-on effort.
The White House is yet again at odds with the Senate over a provision in the annual defense authorization bill laying out a policy for offensive cyber operations, after the same language was stripped out of last year's legislation during conference negotiations.
A new acquisition strategy and baseline for the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System Block 40/45 upgrade program will be completed later this summer, an Air Force spokesman recently told Inside Defense.
Army Secretary Mark Esper says the service will take a more decentralized and commercial approach to its acquisition strategy for network modernization going forward, eyeing "compatible and scalable" systems.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this fall plans to choose a single vendor for its Hallmark program -- an effort to mature a space battle management command and control testbed to verify new software and tactics and improve joint space operations.
Congressional appropriators want to increase funding for the military's artificial intelligence pathfinder, even as Pentagon officials debate how to move forward after Google announced it would drop out of the project once its contract ends.
An influential Army advisory panel is delving into the science and technological underpinnings needed to team soldiers with robots for combat operations, a sweeping study that aims to recommend options to synchronize research and development of needed sensors, communications and artificial intelligence technologies to produce game-changing capabilities for ground and air service components.
House lawmakers are pushing the Defense Department to shore up its policies on contractor cybersecurity, as Congress weighs legislative options in the wake of a hack into a Navy contractor's sensitive undersea warfare data.
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