The questions that warfighters ask the most are now answered with data analytics
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
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“Co-creation” boosts commercial technology for dual-use defense applications
Advana is an example – a mission-aligned data platform that integrates commercial innovation and defense-grade engineering.
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AI is transforming pilot training and the aircraft they fly
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
As Taiwan’s new president takes office, report warns of cyber side of China’s ‘long-term’ strategy
"The PRC shows a strategic preference for activities in cyberspace and other domains that gradually bolster its position over an extended period, prioritizing steady progress and cumulative gains over immediate, overt victories," a report about PRC cyber activities by Booz Allen finds.
Booz Allen nabs $630M integration contract for Space Force missile warning, weather programs
The contract, announced by the company today, will support Space Systems Command's Program Executive Office for Space Sensing, which is responsible for the service's missile warning, weather monitoring and "persistent tactical surveillance" programs.
Show Me The Data: The Pentagon’s Two-Pronged AI Plan
“It’s not going to be just about , ’how do we get a lot of data?’" deputy undersecretary Lisa Porter told the House subcommittee. "It’s going to be about, how do we develop algorithms that don’t need as much data? How do we develop algorithms that we trust?"
The End Of The American Way of War; The Cold War Really Is Over
The American way of war — using overpowering industrial might, crushing firepower, and owning the sea and skies — may have come to an end, a top Pentagon official says. For the past two decades, “the Chinese and the Russians have been working to undermine that model,” said Elbridge Colby, deputy assistant secretary of defense […]
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Beacon brings industry into a shared ecosystem to accelerate flight autonomy
Six companies have already signed up for a new flight-test program to mature their autonomy software.
Why DoD’s Year-End Spending Needs to Change
As the end of the fiscal year approaches at the Department of Defense (DoD), teams at most defense organizations are working hard to spend all the funds in the Pentagon’s day-to-day operating budgets, which are available for use only during the ourrent fiscal year. To do otherwise, they fear, would suggest that not all available funds […]
The Laser Revolution: This Time It May Be Real
TYSON’S CORNER: New laser technology looks promising as a way to shoot down Chinese-style massed missiles. But laser projects have overpromised and underdelivered for decades, from Reagan’s Star Wars in the eighties to the Airborne Laser, canceled in 2011. Now proponents must convince the skeptics — particularly in Congress — that this time is different. “Right […]
Sequestration: Don’t Believe All The Hype
Bob Hale regularly demonstrated his better qualities during testimony before Congress, delivering highly complex facts and judgments about the Defense Department’s spending and budgets to the public with a knowing humor delivered with the sort of gravelly voice you’d expect from one of those old country lawyers. Hale served as DoD comptroller from 2009 to 2014, and, before […]