Boeing taps Dana Deasy, former top Pentagon official, as CIO
Deasy served as the Pentagon's CIO during the first Trump administration.
Deasy served as the Pentagon's CIO during the first Trump administration.
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.
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.
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.
DoD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy wants people to see the clouds beyond the JEDI contract.
"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.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
"Trimble does not have, and never had, a 'coexistence agreement' with Ligado," a company spokesperson says.
"The impact is significant, and it's unacceptable," Gen. Jay Raymond told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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.
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.
"I have mobilized the Department of the Air Force into a wartime acquisition posture," said Roper. "We are at war with this virus."
Writing regulations will take months. Convincing industry and academia to trust the military to handle AI ethically could take years.
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.
"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?