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U.S. Pacific Command’s new directorate will team up with DIU to advance some of its vital technology-driven initiatives.
A DoD project to develop new technology for the combatant commands will prioritize the Indo-Pacific Command.
With a new initiative to build unmanned systems, the Pentagon wants to scale up fast with smaller, cheaper design.
Lily Zeleke, the deputy chief information officer for the information enterprise at DoD, said the move to the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability is as much about taking advantage of enterprise services as it is about not breaking mission outcomes.
Melissa Vice, the director of the Department of Defense’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program, said the 12-month voluntary pilot with defense contractors found vendors faces similar challenges as the department in securing their networks.
The proposed House and Senate NDAA bills have language to create new oversight and accountability for defense contractors.
Danielle Moyer, the executive director of the Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, said during her first few months on the job, she created a review team to figure out how to shorten the timeline to award contracts.
A plan to have the intelligence community and the Defense Department share secret cloud services takes both organizations closer to a goal of interoperability.
National Security Innovation Capital is maturing as an investment fund with more hardware startups in its portfolio, and ambitious plans to expand its reach.
Robert Smith, the director of Department of the Navy’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, said the goal is to accelerate new or better capabilities to the sailor and marine.
Raj Sharma, the founder and CEO of the Public Spend Forum, said agencies are more willing to provide Phase 2 SBIR funding to promising technologies over the last four years.
Contractors and investor offer suggestions for how to improve DoD acquisition but getting ideas implemented may not be easy.
OPM and DCSA are making policy and technology changes are part of the implementation of the Trusted Workforce 2.0.
In an effort to adapt to modern acquisition policy, the Army is revamping its acquisition workforce.