The small but potent Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has reached its stride, as it enters its eighth year in business. The DIU uses a technique known as "other transaction authority" to quickly get new technology prototypes built for military purposes.
TRADOC looks to a more nuanced synthetic training experience to prepare soldiers for battle.
A panel of federal and industry experts describe each of their approaches to achieving a zero trust architecture to improve the security of systems and data.
Raj Iyer’s last day as the Army’s chief information officer is Feb. 10, after which he plans to return to industry but continue to support the service’s transformation efforts.
FEMA brings back a familiar face to be its new CIO while HHS, the Navy and GSA fill key technology leadership roles.
The long-awaited "go-live" of (IPPS-A) marks the first time the active Army, the Army National Guard and Army Reserve have used a single system for all of their pay and personnel functions.
The Army recently appointed its first ever lead trial counsel, a Senate-confirmed one-star general. Her job will be to prosecute cases of murder, rape and sexual assaults.
Margaret Boatner, the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform, said the service will hire as many as 10 experts to help acquisition offices and vendors improve their management of intellectual property.
The Army is planning a significant multiple-award ID/IQ to tie the communication advancements it's achieved at the tactical edge into a more manageable structuring of its tools and the data they produce.
Percipient.AI alleges NGA and prime contractor CACI are ignoring a law requiring agencies to buy commercially available products.
Raj Iyer has been the Army’s chief information officer November 2020 and has focused on 13 lines of effort to modernize technology and change the culture.
The federal government is facing the same talent crunch as private sector organizations. Particularly with pending government retirements, it is more important than ever for agencies to build effective team environments that empower employees and offer career roadmaps that will strengthen retention and commitment.
Paul Puckett, the former director of the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA) in the Army’s CIO office, said the cloud is not only demonstrating value, but are also fundamentally changing the way that the Army looks at requirements, organizational alignment and incentive structures.
The Army expects it'll take about a year to get everyone on the virtual desktop capability.
The Army is asking industry — and itself — whether it truly needs to own and maintain 350,000 high-end tactical radios. Buying simpler radios and leasing the more advanced ones are among the options on the table.