The funding aligns with the Defense Department’s AI efforts, notably the AI and Data Acceleration initiative announced last year by Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks.
By Jaspreet Gill“So if you don’t have an integration layer like that, then you have to go find all of the data sources yourself… This is something we don’t have yet in the department,” Lt. Gen. Michael Groen told Breaking Defense.
By Jaspreet Gill“Cybersecurity must be built into system design, and the human defender should be included early on in cyber defense engineering and programmatic priorities for both system usability and training,” according to the Pentagon’s chief tester.
By Jaspreet Gill“It’s getting that data talent into the combatant command, knowing that it’s going to be there so that they can begin understanding what they have and what’s within the art of the possible there,” Dave Spirk, the Pentagon’s chief data officer, said.
By Andrew EversdenActing DoD CIO John Sherman said Microsoft and AWS will likely be invited to bid on JWCC, and DoD will also look at the capabilities of other US-based cloud service providers, such as Google, IBM, and Oracle.
By Brad D. Williams