Defense
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Human migration patters, the billowing drug trade, allies nervous about China, it's all picked up the pace for the U.S. Coast Guard.
April 04, 2023 -
Pilot training outside of the cockpit, in a simulator, is known as synthetic training. It's getting more sophisticated and realistic.
April 04, 2023 -
DoD hasn't yet weighed in with an official position on whether a notional "cyber force" should become a new seventh branch of the armed services, despite years of Congress asking.
April 03, 2023 -
The Defense Department wants to expand its budget for mental health care, and the services are starting new programs to prevent harmful behavior.
March 31, 2023 -
Army leaders expect soldiers in 2040 to have greater technical abilities than their predecessors, and that will involve different training methods.
March 30, 2023 -
MHS Genesis, DoD’s new EHR, is now live at 75% of DoD’s clinics and hospitals, with 160,000 users and 6.1 million beneficiaries in the system. But officials believe its future benefits extend far beyond replacement of legacy systems
March 30, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: After eight years of double and triple billing DoD for genetic tests, LabCorp pays a $2.1 million settlement. An IRS watchdog says the agency's uncollected taxes estimate in not clear enough. And House Democrats want to create another investment option for TSP participants.
March 29, 2023 -
The Defense Department is looking at 2025 as a milestone to make better use of artificial intelligence.
March 28, 2023 -
The Biden administration is setting a high bar to improve customer experience across government, but the VA’s National Cemetery Administration is already at the top of the charts, according to one scorecard.
March 27, 2023 -
Dave Lago, a product manager for DISA's Hosting and Compute Center, said the Vulcan tool set includes several commercial software capabilities to help DoD modernize software.
March 24, 2023 -
Since January, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has been running a highly classified version of a very popular consumer platform. DISA completed functional testing of what it calls DOD-365-Sec, a secure version of Microsoft Office 365, a cloud-hosted suite of common products.
March 24, 2023 -
Cloud computing is not a simple matter when working across thousands of miles of complicated geography, especially when there’s no guaranteed network connection. We talk with three Army colonels about pilots aimed at achieving tactical cloud.
March 24, 2023 -
Improving Defense business systems though cloud technologies is a big goal for DoD, but it’s not as though the concept is unproven. Here’s what two program managers who were early cloud adopters have learned so far.
March 24, 2023 -
The National Security Agency is continuing its cloud journey across multiple fronts, including the Hybrid Compute Initiative, which aims to align compute solution to mission. We get details from Deputy CIO Jennifer Kron during the DoD Cloud Exchange.
March 24, 2023 -
It’s not enough to adopt and blend a variety of cloud presences. The on-premise environments must also behave like the cloud, USSOCOM’s chief technical officer explains to Tom Temin during the 2023 DoD Cloud Exchange.
March 24, 2023
