The three new contracts come on top of last month’s equal award to OpenAI, bringing the Chief Digital & AI Officer’s investment in cutting-edge commercial “frontier AI” to a total of $800 million.
"We recognize this is a time of heightened risk,” Pentagon cyber official Katie Arrington told Breaking Defense. “DoD encourages the DIB [Defense Industry Base] to raise their cybersecurity posture.”
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
Lt. Col. John Hall, DISA's point man on the Pentagon's massive cloud project, told Breaking Defense that having all four cloud providers at Impact Level-6 helps prevent vendor lock and keeps the companies "honest."
Inside the Pentagon, the air-gapped module will be used by the Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office (RSO) "to bring the maintenance digital ecosystem to Airmen in austere and forward deployed locations," the tech giant says.
Wiz's focus on cloud security means it would likely play a part in the DoD’s JWCC Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability initiative.
Washington could do more to incentivize tech companies to distance themselves from China, but CEOs should examine how they'd react to a fight in the Pacific, CSET's Sam Bresnick and Emelia Probasco argue.
Six companies have already signed up for a new flight-test program to mature their autonomy software.
The investment by Australia and the United States into funding the new Google internet cables means the Pacific islands can avoid becoming integral parts of China's global data collection.
The Biden administration also unveiled a new executive order targeting US investment in Chinese AI, quantum and microelectronic tech.
According to a DISA spokesperson, each big-name JWCC vendor received an equal task order, with the value of $3.8 million for some early testing of the concept.
Cyber attacks on Ukraine surged in early 2022, but Russian hackers haven’t sustained that intensity, says a new report from Google's Mandiant researchers.
Explore how networked warfare, AI, and 3D-printed drones are reshaping US Indo-Pacific strategy.
In the network world, 2022 saw the return of the (non) JEDI, the bumpy road to JADC2 and real-world lessons from the cyber dimension of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
JWCC is a multi-vendor, multi-cloud follow up to the infamous single-source Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, which was worth up to $10 billion and canceled in 2021.
"I think what people will find is that this type of advancement, going from ground-to-space, changes the whole space economy," Aalyria's CEO Chris Taylor said. "I think it's going to be monumental."
Google's addition is somewhat surprising since, in recent years, the company has pulled away from DoD work due to internal pressure on executives from its workforce. The apparent omission of IBM is also notable.