The US and its allies managed to block a move by China to open up the 6 GHz band Beijing uses for 5G mobile wireless communications to global use — a move that would have empowered Chinese telecom firms such as Huawei.
By Theresa HitchensNew Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
Amazon recently launched the first two prototypes for its Project Kuiper; OneWeb now has all 634 satellites it needs to provide global internet access.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I think everyone agrees that if there’s a reasonable cost-based argument that paying for use does make sense,” industry analyst Tim Farrar said. But “I think Elon has made that more difficult rather than less difficult because you don’t normally negotiate your weapons contracts on Twitter.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“Undersea cable infrastructure is ripe for sabotage,” said Karen Jones, one of the authors of the study.
By Theresa Hitchens
The sixth ABMS onramp “was going to be in partnership with Australia, and allies and partners, in the Pacific Rim,” Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said, but “just due to the budget constraints, we had to pull the plug on that.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Like JEDI, DEOS is a multi-billion dollar cloud program held up for months by protests from losing bidders. This morning, the Pentagon reaffirmed General Dynamics as the winner, but cut the contract’s estimated value nearly in half.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“Rather than imposing specific requirements, SPD-5 affords all government stakeholders a policy framework to implement prudent practices to enhance resilience, including specific efforts to work with the commercial space sector overall and promote information sharing. That’s an improvement from the status quo,” Andrew D’Uva, US industry chair of the Space Force/NSA’s Commercial Space INFOSEC Working Group (CSIWG) says.
By Theresa Hitchens
Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
Amazon’s new protest to the Pentagon isn’t about getting the Defense Department to change its mind, experts say. It’s really a signal to the judge in the long-running court battle over the JEDI contract.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
A judge is letting the Pentagon redo part of the flawed procurement. Amazon says the redo is itself is fatally flawed.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
While the judge has paused the trial to let the Pentagon redo part of the cloud computing competition, acquisition guru Bill Greenwalt warns any victory for either side will be “pyrrhic.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
President Trump fired the Pentagon Inspector General last week. Was the real reason the IG’s attempt to investigate White House interference in the JEDI contract?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
While the Defense Department IG said the award to Microsoft was fair, it was not allowed to ask vital questions about pressure from the Trump White House. That could trigger a congressional investigation, one expert told us.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
ABMS is essentially the first effort by the Defense Department to “build the Internet of Things for the military,” Will Roper, head of Air Force acquisition, says.
By Theresa Hitchens
What went wrong and what happens next? CSIS experts Mark Cancian & Andrew Hunter dive deep into JEDI.
By Mark Cancian and Andrew Hunter