It’s a case of “haves and have-nots.” Here’s an informal run down of agencies with special cyber pay authorities, including DoD, DHS, and the VA.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Replicator 2 will be part of the fiscal 2026 defense budget request.
Christopher Skaluba, the executive director in the DoD CDAO, said the office is creating tools to provide data-driven insights on AI workforce needs.
A six-month CR would delay $8.2 billion worth of investments for the Army, limit the Air Force’s ability to fund increases in military pay accounts.
Dovarius Peoples will start as GSA’s deputy CIO on Oct. 6 after spending the last five years with the Army Corps of Engineers.
"It's been a case of borrowing from Peter to pay Paul," NASA's Norm Augustine said. "And Peter's about to run out of money to borrow."
The service recruited 55,300 new soldiers in fiscal 2024, meeting its recruitment target, after it hoped to bring 60,000 recruits in 2022 and 65,000 in 2023.
Senators voted Tuesday to confirm Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Clark for a fourth star and as commander of U.S. Army Pacific.
"The number of vendors is shrinking, the market is concentrating and it's becoming more stratified that the top," Bloomberg Government analyst Paul Murphy said.
"One of the problems is the Defense Department doesn't use the software and data that all first-class enterprises in the world use," Jeb Nadaner said.
NASA and the Defense Department have very different missions. They share the fact that they're stretched thin in some ways, and the nation is the loser.
Army officials are working to inculcate agile principles within their own organizations, but also need a new contract vehicle to buy software from industry.
"We urge the DoD to really focus significant investment on next generation semiconductor technologies," said Liesl Folks.
The new tool sifts through over 30 million applicant files, and uses 1,700 different variables to generate highly refined prospect lists.
Sources say the law enforcement activity included two criminal and one civil subpoena.