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When a part is needed for a plane in the Air Force, it usually comes through the 448th Supply Chain Wing in the Air Force Sustainment Center. Ensuring that all those parts get to their destinations, and that they are not tampered with or sabotaged, calls for a good deal of risk management.
Read more“The key theme, and really everything that’s coming out of the executive order is about resiliency,” said Christine Barnhart, senior director at Infor for supply chain strategy. “The order is about how we make our supply chains less fragile and more resilient. It’s not so much about isolating us from the rest of the world, but really taking out some of the risks, and making sure that we’re able to be self-sustaining at least for a period of time.”
The past 18 months have thrown a wrench in many of the military’s plans, but the supply chain is one that has taken a particularly hard hit. Army Materiel Command had a handful of backups that caused issues for the supply chain during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Defense Logistics Agency is in charge of moving $40 billion worth of goods around the world per year, but when COVID hit and supply chains started moving in fits and starts, the organization had to start changing to get goods delivered on time. Rear Adm. Doug Norton, director of logistics operations for DLA, said DLA worked closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to find ways to deliver quickly in emergency situations.
Matthew Isnor, who leads cyber workforce development in DoD’s CIO’s office, said a new policy expands the number of job categories in the cyber workforce.
That new White House guidance on agency use of artificial intelligence embodies guardrails, but also a few opt-out scenarios.
DHS also named a director for its AI Corps, a new initiative aimed at recruiting 50 AI experts to lead high-priority projects across the department.
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is one of the federal government’s newest HISP agencies.
A 100-day implementation plan for the Army’s acquisition community aims to resolve the issues that might get in the way of AI adoption
NTSB’s Michael Anthony and AmeriCorps’ Andrea Gibbons and Linda Southcott detail their TMF-funded efforts to improve digital services.
ACF, HUD and other agencies collaborate to help make access to services less daunting to people at their most vulnerable and trying to recover from a disaster.
The ISS National Lab recently announced a new funding opportunity for in-space production applications.