“I’m convinced we’re going to be able to do some great things,” Craig Martel told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview. “But they’re going to be hard things. It’s going to be a challenge.”
By Jaspreet GillModernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
The office of the chief digital and artificial intelligence will be responsible for scaling up data, analytics and AI to enable faster and better decision-making “from campaigning to conflict.”
By Jaspreet Gill
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Defense Digital Service and Chief Data Officer will now report a new Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence officer
By Andrew Eversden The Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) and the office of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) would all report up to a new individual, tentatively named the Chief Data & AI Officer.
By Aaron Mehta
“We cannot afford a ‘next time we will do better’ mentality,” said one Defense Digital Service participant. “I strongly believe a proactive approach is critical, which means finding potential problems and addressing them before they are realized.”
By Brad D. Williams
The Pentagon’s digital elite wants to rapidly develop new techniques and technologies to detect, hack, and jam enemy drones – with wide potential applications for Joint All-Domain Command & Control.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
At stake is not just a $10 billion IT contract, but an information age weapon.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
The famously hoodie-clad founder of the Defense Digital Service defends his legacy as he prepares to hand over the helm.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
WASHINGTON The massive and troubled $10 billion cloud contract the Pentagon has been pursuing has run into another snag. DoD revealed Tuesday it has obtained “new information” pointing to potential of conflicts of interest in the competition, already widely criticized for favoring Amazon Web Services. Pentagon spokesperson Elissa Smith confirmed to Breaking Defense that “new…
By Paul McLeary
HackerOne, Synack, and newcomer Bugcrowd split up to $34 million.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“I just had a general who came to my office,” said Chris Lynch, head of DoD’s internal hoodie-wearing geek squad, the Defense Digital Service. “The problem was the entire mission was being run out of Excel.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. In a world where knowledge increasingly matters more than physical power, US troops can’t quickly access vital information in a labyrinth of often incompatible and inaccessible databases. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure — archly acronymized as JEDI — aims to fix all that.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
A project called Hack the Air Force is paying “white hat” hackers over $130,000 for finding weak points in its websites, the service announced this morning. It’s the Defense Department’s third “bug bounty” – a high-profile initiative of Obama’s last Defense Secretary, Ashton Carter, that’s survived under Trump. [CORRECTED FIGURES} Hack the Pentagon found 138 unique,…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
President Donald Trump’s six latest nominees to lead the Pentagon provide some hope for those who have long been frustrated with the Defense Department’s roadblocks to procuring innovative technologies. From the Boeing executive who spent time on the company’s successful commercial side who’s been picked for Deputy Defense Secretary, to the House Armed Services aide who crafted the…
By Elana Broitman