Defense
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The Defense Department has been spending an increasing amount of its budget on maintenance and support costs to keep its aging fleets of aircraft at a certain level of mission readiness. However, costs keep rising as the lifecycle of aging weapons platforms gets extended, budgets struggle to keep up with inflation ultimately raising potential risks to mission readiness.
August 15, 2023 -
Venice Goodwine replaces Lauren Knausenberger, who departed in June, as the Air Force chief information officer.
August 15, 2023 -
Looking for ways to make the acquisition process more accessible for innovators, National Technology Alliance seeks to network industry, capital and government.
August 14, 2023 -
Intelligence agencies are bringing more of a top-down focus to open-source intelligence (OSINT).
August 14, 2023 -
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.
August 14, 2023 -
The American Federation of Government Employees filed a request with the Federal Labor Relations Authority to begin investigating the viability of union recognition at Ramstein Air Base.
August 11, 2023 -
The Biden administration is trying to address some more immediate spending needs through a supplemental request that will come up before Congress can pass the 2024 budget.
August 11, 2023 -
Biden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster borderThe Biden administration is asking Congress to provide more than $13 billion in emergency defense aid to Ukraine and an additional $8 billion for humanitarian support through the end of the year.
August 11, 2023 -
Defense officials say the organization aims to make sure DoD takes a coordinated, responsible approach to adopting generative AI for military applications.
August 10, 2023 -
Congress looks for new ways to fund innovation for DoD with public-private partnerships as it continues authorization of the Office of Strategic Capital.
August 09, 2023 -
Immigration courts have become what my next guest calls the dumping ground for the nation's systemic immigration failures. And that's caused enormous backlogs on the immigration court dockets.
August 09, 2023 -
The “AI Cyber Challenge” announced today will be a two-year effort with involvement from leading companies Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
August 09, 2023 -
Three organizations representing tech and software companies banded together to make sure Congress hears their concerns about the acquisition process.
August 09, 2023 -
“Cross domain solutions” have long been a critical piece of securing those networks, with the technology serving as a sort of gatekeeper to keep out malware and other threats. But with agencies increasingly adopting cloud services for even classified data, the nature of the “cross-domain solutions” is evolving, too, according to John Meyer, vice president and general manager of software ventures at Arcfield.
August 08, 2023 -
Buy-American and not-buy-from-China rules have raised concerns from contractors. Meanwhile the FTC proposes new rules on contractor mergers that look practically unworkable.
August 08, 2023
