Gen. Paul Stanton acknowledged that he's taking over at an "unprecedented period of significant change in an unsettled word," one that has an "insatiable appetite for data."
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.
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
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.
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.
"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.”
The director of the Defense Information Systems Agency laid out 14 areas where industry can help the agency.
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
COLORADO SPRINGS: The head of Space and Missile Systems Center hinted at what he calls a re-architecting of what many believe to be one of the military’s most stovepiped organizations, calling for faster acquisition and major changes to how the Pentagon decides what weapons it’s going to buy. “Some of you may have heard the US has […]
[UPDATED with Central Command statement on Twitter/YouTube hack] CRYSTAL CITY: There’s a new cyber sheriff in town — and none too soon. When the Pentagon’s social media accounts get hacked, as they did today, it’s acutely embarrassing. When the military’s internal networks get hacked, however, it’s potentially lethal. But the Defense Department doesn’t have a single organization […]