Senate confirms Coast Guard’s new top admiral, other key DoD officials
Senators confirmed a new Pentagon comptroller and director of operational test and evaluation, among others.
Senators confirmed a new Pentagon comptroller and director of operational test and evaluation, among others.
Sherman will serve as the next Dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
“Those are the next steps that are going to be most challenging because ... people are messy, right?” Navy cyber advisor Scott St. Pierre said. “Everybody’s like, ‘No, that’s mine. I don’t want to touch it.’ ... What we really need to do is help everybody understand that we’re all in this together."
"Anybody who leads knows that the hardest thing to do is change culture,” Mark Gorak told Breaking Defense. "And I think we have to do that in order to retain the force we have.”
In an exclusive interview with Breaking Defense, DoD Chief Information Officer John Sherman shares his top priority areas for fiscal 2023.
“We’re no longer at a point where we have to necessarily grab new technology to solve our problems,” Air Force Chief Information Officer Lauren Knausenberger said.
"A lot of people when they think of space-based capabilities, they always forget the ground segment," Mike Dean, the Pentagon's top SATCOM official, said.
The memorandum pushes agencies to adopt zero-trust architecture implementation plans, cloud technologies, multifactor authentication and encryption.
It is unclear how quickly the two men can go through the nomination process, given current politics on Capitol Hill.
“You’re not looking at my mission needs,” Brig. Gen. Crall told an audience of contractors. “If ‘there’s an app for that,’ does the app work when you’re disconnected?” Crall asked. “Does the app work when you haven’t had food for three days and you’ve been cut off?”
The military space sector is evolving fast. Get the latest from Space Force and industry officials on what’s next for acquisition, policy and training in a new Breaking Defense eBook.
"We’re getting ready to make a big announcement, coming out in weeks," acting deputy CIO Thomas Michelli. "Watch this space. Stay tuned."
"The major challenge for the US is China," CNA analyst Larry Lewis said. "They are approaching the use of AI just like the US approached going to the moon in the sixties."
UPDATED: Adds Changes To Air Force Space Command CAPITOL HILL: Principal DoD Space Advisor. Gone. Air Force’s new A-11 space staff. Kaput. Defense Space Council. Dead. And that’s really just the beginning of what the Senate and House Armed Services Committees hath wrought to national security space in the National Defense Authorization Act. The […]
WASHINGTON: The Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is taking a “very serious” look at to making the electromagnetic spectrum a formal “domain” of military operations, a top aide to the Pentagon’s chief information officer told me this morning. The move would elevate the ethereal realm of radio waves and radar to the same […]