Defense
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A lot of the data that government produces needs to be rated; safe to distribute, controlled but unclassified, or maybe secret and classified. That's simplifying this huge but never-ending task. Now the Defense Department has launched a challenge prize program to develop an artificial intelligence approach to automating some of this tedious task.
April 08, 2022 -
Pockets of DoD have proven they can produce world-class code, but there's a lot of work ahead to make agile development the norm, the department's first-ever chief software officer says in an exit interview.
April 08, 2022 -
The contest is open to hardware and software submissions.
April 08, 2022 -
The U.S. Navy was once enamored with speed
April 07, 2022 -
IBM federal has been many things over the years. Lately, it's been headed by a man with a unique perspective, an Army career officer, then chief information officer of the Navy and of the Defense Department. Terry Halvorsen has seen IT investment and digital transformation from several angles.
April 07, 2022 -
Vice Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan has been tapped by the White House to succeed Commandant Karl Schultz, who retires in June. She talks about her experiences in the Coast Guard
April 07, 2022 -
DoD is coming off a record high year of military suicides.
April 07, 2022 -
Rear Admiral Ron Piret, is commander of naval meteorology and oceanography, navigator of the Navy, and hydrographer of the Navy. He described the 2600 member operation that takes care of all of the Navy's weather, oceanography and meteorology, observations and analyses.
April 06, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, President Joe Biden taps Admiral Linda Fagan as the next commandant of the Coast Guard.
April 06, 2022 -
It has a name but no keel yet, the Coast Guard's next polar security cutter. Shipbuilding is but one issue the Coast Guard is dealing with.
April 05, 2022 -
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and DoD Comptroller Michael McCord represented the Pentagon’s vanguard in defending the $773 billion 2023 budget request to Congress on Tuesday.
April 05, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Justice Department has charged three Army servicemembers for allegedly having a key role in a criminal network that supplied guns to gang members in Chicago.
April 04, 2022 -
While the Biden administration is asking for $773 billion for 2023, that number may not go as far as hoped. DoD says it finished up its planning for 2023 before inflation rates rose and before Russia invaded Ukraine causing oil prices to spike.
April 04, 2022 -
It may take 20 years or more before the Air Force has its pilot shortage situation back to where it is breaking even.
March 31, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a federal judge in Texas has blocked the Navy from enforcing its COVID vaccine mandate against nearly 4,000 sailors who’d filed religious exemptions.
March 31, 2022
