DISA plans to first achieve federated ICAM connection within the Army, followed by the Department of the Navy and Department of the Air Force.
By Carley WelchHow advanced sensors are shaping the battlefield
Ground platform situational awareness is critical as vehicle crew survivability depends upon it.
This year Breaking Defense spoke with top cyber and network experts and officials reflecting on the ways the Pentagon is striving to make the IT space more robust.
By Carley Welch
“Don’t do [AI] just to say that you have it,” said DISA CTO Steve Wallace. “We’ve seen a lot of vendors who claim to have it, and when you peel back the onion, there’s not a whole lot of depth.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In our latest eBook you’ll find the updates from the US Army on two pilot programs and DISA focusing on a key priority.
By Breaking Defense
“We still buy IT as if it was a weapon system,” John Hale, chief of cloud services at DISA, said, adding that he sometimes felt he’s “banged [his] head against the wall.”
By Carley Welch
DISA chief Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner said the agency hopes to bring “nearly 100,000” users to DODNET within months of a planned fall push.
By Carley Welch
The Defense Department wants to explore Large Language Models for everything from paperwork to war plans – without being misled by hallucinations or having sensitive information sucked up by commercial LLMs hungry for training data.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
As the world reexamines defense priorities, the world looks to UAS like MQ-9B
A new chapter is beginning in U.S.-UAE defense cooperation, opening the door to further collaboration.
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s five-year plan includes the ambitious goal to build a global network “unconstrained by bandwidth [and] impervious to denial” by hostile forces.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. “It’s great to have internet day to day in peacetime,” said Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, “but it’s more imperative to have it when bullets are flying.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
By Breaking Defense
“Right now we’re going through dealing with some of the security challenges,” Steve Wallace told Breaking Defense. “So I’m hoping the first half of this calendar year. The sooner … the better.”
By Jaspreet Gill
Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Sherman set the tone early in the year by telling Breaking Defense a major focus over 2023 would be aiming for baseline, targeted zero trust within four years.
By Jaspreet Gill
“What this does today … is that it provides the ability to bring a number of different information feeds, a number of different data sources together in one picture,” Kevin Laughlin, deputy director for the program executive office for spectrum, told reporters.
By Jaspreet Gill
While DoD is seeing adoption of AI across the department, Steven Wallace added that DISA is trying to better understand the ethical use of the technology.
By Jaspreet Gill
