Navy, General Dynamics lay the keel for newly renamed USS District of Columbia
The keel laying is an important, albeit largely ceremonial, event in the submarine's path forward to its first patrol in 2030.
DoD Launches New Zero-Trust Security Portfolio Office; CIO Talks Priorities
The new office is slated for October, Pentagon CIO John Sherman said, while also giving updates on the Spectrum Strategy implementation plan and the cyber workforce strategy.
The questions that warfighters ask the most are now answered with data analytics
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
Secretary Austin Approves Spectrum Superiority Strategy Implementation Plan
"Today's EMS Superiority Strategy combined our electromagnetic warfare and spectrum equities for the first time ever,” said Vice Chairman John Hyten. "The Strategy's I-Plan sets us on a path to dominate the future battle space. We are determined to get there and achieve spectrum superiority in all domains."
To Transform Tech, DoD Must Stop Being An ‘Innovation Tourist:’ Report
The current approach "is more akin to innovation tourism—with the DoD sampling the local fare of the United States’ various tech hubs—than a bona fide strategy for bringing emerging technologies into the department," the report notes.
Tech Innovation, Spectrum Strategy Among House Markup Priorities
The markup comes at a pivotal moment for the US as it intensifies competition -- while seeking to avoid conflict -- with China, in particular, which senior department officials refer to as the US's "pacing threat."
IT Modernization Strategy, Spectrum Plan Imminent: DoD CIO
Rep. Langevin criticized the 2022 budget overview for its brevity, opacity, and appearance as "nearly a carbon copy" of the 2021 document. "If DoD were a high school student, I would have called [the 2022 budget overview] plagiarism."
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Powering the future: Securing America with domestically made microelectronics
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
Rep. Langevin Presses SecDef On Cyber, EW Priorities
"The Department of Defense officially recognizes five domains of warfare," Rep. Langevin said. "For four of those domains, the senior civilian is a service secretary. Cyber has a deputy assistant secretary, which is four rungs lower than the other warfighting domains. Why does this make sense?"
Experts Tell Congress How To Turn Innovation Into Reality
Emphasizing venture capital, modular open architecture, and software development will help turn neat ideas into battle-ready weapons, acquisition gurus told Congress. But having separate bureaucracies for Research & Engineering and Acquisition & Sustainment may be a problem.
Lawmakers Want Economic Recovery Plan For Cyber ‘Day After’
“One thing the pandemic has taught us is the unthinkable can happen,” said Sen. Angus King, co-chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
Army Plans To Halt WIN-T Buy; Shuffle Network $$
WASHINGTON: After almost a decade of reporting on the Army’s crucial networks, I’d thought they’d started to get things right. Boy, was I wrong. At a hearing this afternoon of the House Armed Services air and land subcommittee, the Army left lawmakers shaking their heads when they announced they plan to shut down the controversial […]
Modern Tech in Indo-Pacific Operations
Explore how networked warfare, AI, and 3D-printed drones are reshaping US Indo-Pacific strategy.
The Laser Revolution: This Time It May Be Real
TYSON’S CORNER: New laser technology looks promising as a way to shoot down Chinese-style massed missiles. But laser projects have overpromised and underdelivered for decades, from Reagan’s Star Wars in the eighties to the Airborne Laser, canceled in 2011. Now proponents must convince the skeptics — particularly in Congress — that this time is different. “Right […]
Hill Hurts Innovation, Just Like DoD – But We Can Change: Forbes, Langevin
WASHINGTON: “We have the presumption we’re going to have the competitive edge when it comes to technology,” said Rep. Randy Forbes, “[that] just because we’ve had it in the last several decades that somehow or other we’re destined to have it in the future.” That’s a dangerous mistake, Forbes said Thursday at the Carnegie Endowment, […]