Boeing taps Dana Deasy, former top Pentagon official, as CIO
Deasy served as the Pentagon's CIO during the first Trump administration.
Pentagon CIO Defends JEDI To Key Senator
The Defense Department has spent over $5.3 million so far administering the stalled JEDI procurement – but that’s not counting the time of DoD lawyers engaged in over a year of legal battles.
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JEDI Delay Doesn’t Derail DoD Cloud: Pentagon CIO
The Pentagon is finding alternative clouds while waiting for JEDI, Dana Deasy said, so it can upgrade them to JEDI as soon as the courts allow.
Pentagon Gives Up Huge Slice Of Spectrum For 5G
An unprecedentedly quick 15-week review identified 100 mHZ of spectrum, now heavily used by military radars, that will be auctioned off in December 2021.
Pentagon Code Library Will Support Multiple Clouds
DoD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy wants people to see the clouds beyond the JEDI contract.
US Risks Losing 5G Standard Setting Battle To China, Experts Say
"We need some coherency around what we're actually doing on the public policy front, and we need some more technical coordination ... so we could at least be at the stage where we're still on the field, versus sitting on the sidelines trying to figure out how to catch up," said Brookings fellow Nicol Turner Lee.
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EXCLUSIVE GPS Fight Erupts As Trimble Accuses Ligado Of ‘Inaccurate’ Claims In FCC Ruling
"Trimble does not have, and never had, a 'coexistence agreement' with Ligado," a company spokesperson says.
DoD Pushes To Reverse FCC OK Of Ligado 5G Network
"The impact is significant, and it's unacceptable," Gen. Jay Raymond told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
EXCLUSIVE: DoD CIO Makes Case For Sticking With JEDI
No current cloud, commercial or military, lets frontline troops access both classified and unclassified data from all over the world, Dana Deasy told Breaking Defense. That makes JEDI unique – and too complex to split up among multiple contractors.
COVID-19: DoD Remote Access Capacity Soars Tenfold
With tens of thousands of military and civilian personnel working from home, IT projects that normally take years to grind through the bureaucracy are now happening in weeks -- but cybersecurity concerns persist.
The Army’s Digital Transformation
AI is reshaping the Army’s approach to cyber, electronic warfare and command and control. At TechNet Augusta 2026, leaders outlined how they’re turning emerging technology into capabilities for the battlefield.
COVID-19: Roper Stands Up Task Force To Assist Industrial Base
"I have mobilized the Department of the Air Force into a wartime acquisition posture," said Roper. "We are at war with this virus."
DoD Adopts AI Ethics Principles — But How Will They Be Enforced?
Writing regulations will take months. Convincing industry and academia to trust the military to handle AI ethically could take years.
Pentagon AI Efforts Disorganized: RAND
The RAND report, commissioned by the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, unsurprisingly recommends more power for the JAIC over future service budgets. Right now AI efforts are so diffuse no one's even sure what's in the 2020 appropriations bill just passed.
US Military Needs Better Data On Itself To Exploit AI
"If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles." Guess which half of Sun Tzu's ancient maxim is the Pentagon's problem?