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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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
South By Southwest festival bars Army, defense industry from ‘sponsoring’ 2025 event
However, an Army spokesperson tells Breaking Defense the service does not believe it is fully banned from all future events, and did not rule out the possibly of attending SXSW in some capacity next year.
Sweden’s top officer on the ‘mental transition’ of joining NATO and Russian concerns
Gen. Micael Byden, Supreme Ccmmander of Sweden's military, sat down with Breaking Defense during a recent visit to Washington.
3 areas the DoD should fix to rapidly integrate new tech
"Delivering greater access, clarity, and confidence to commercial companies would dramatically improve companies’ ability to participate in the federal market, and thereby significantly strengthen America’s defense readiness," write Jeff Decker and Noah Sheinbaum in this op-ed.
It’s time for new incentives for defense primes to invest in startups
"If we are to meet the innovation goals of the NDS, we must incentivize the primes to move beyond the short-term partnership model and encourage them to form more holistic relationships with promising early-stage companies, including investment into operating businesses," writes Chip Walter.
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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.
DIU’s director tried to overcome a calcified defense innovation system. It beat him. Now what?
"DoD, through its neglect, is turning its back on the disruptive opportunities from the commercial and non-traditional innovation sector," warns Bill Greenwalt of AEI.
Army launches new Bring-Your-Own-Device pilot as it aims to leverage commercial capabilities
"Since this is done in a virtualized environment that is hosted up in the cloud through DoD, it is very, very, very secure... We're pretty excited about this and it's taken us a while to get to this point, both from a policy perspective and from a building out of the environment [perspective], but we are right on the cusp of implementation," Lt. Gen. John Morrison said.
Time to start operationalizing wearable technology in the DoD
"Expanding the use of wearable technology in the DoD could have positive implications for both military capability and general health research," write Gabe Arrington and Christopher Mulder.
EXCLUSIVE: Outgoing DIU head ‘frustrated… we’re not supported’ more by big Pentagon
The man charged with innovation at the Pentagon tells Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview that his office suffered from a "benign neglect" from Pentagon leadership when it came to funding.
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Meeting Zero Trust goals while maintaining information dominance
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
Change how OTAs are used to make them an essential tool against China
DoD needs to lower the barriers to larger defense market opportunities that go beyond R&D, extending into the full lifecycle of defense systems, argues Christopher Zember.