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.
John Sherman leaving CIO post at end of June
Sherman will serve as the next Dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Navy officials call for more ‘shared cyber responsibility,’ better handling of ‘crapload of data’
“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."
How DoD is thinking ‘outside the box’ to solve its cyber workforce challenges
"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.”
JWCC, zero trust, user experience & a new cyber talent strategy: DoD CIO sets FY23 priorities
In an exclusive interview with Breaking Defense, DoD Chief Information Officer John Sherman shares his top priority areas for fiscal 2023.
Time to ‘block and tackle’: Draft strategy outlines Air Force’s future digital environment through 2028
“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.
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Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
DoD launching efforts to clean up messy SATCOM ground segment
"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.
Biden signs memo to secure DoD, IC national security systems
The memorandum pushes agencies to adopt zero-trust architecture implementation plans, cloud technologies, multifactor authentication and encryption.
Biden Taps Sherman For Pentagon CIO, Guertin For OT&E
It is unclear how quickly the two men can go through the nomination process, given current politics on Capitol Hill.
Cloud Computing, Armageddon, & How Not To Sell IT To DoD
“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 state of play in military space
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.
Pentagon Rolls Out Major Cyber, AI Strategies This Summer
"We’re getting ready to make a big announcement, coming out in weeks," acting deputy CIO Thomas Michelli. "Watch this space. Stay tuned."
Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Created Under DoD CIO
"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."
‘Extraordinary’ National Security Space Changes, 7-Year V-22 Multiyear In NDAA
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 […]
VCJCS Mulls Newest Domain: Electromagnetic Spectrum
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 […]