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With a new initiative to build unmanned systems, the Pentagon wants to scale up fast with smaller, cheaper design.
President Joe Biden’s decision to allow allies to train Ukrainian forces on how to operate F-16 fighter jets — and eventually to provide the aircraft themselves — seemed like an abrupt change in position but was in fact one that came after months of internal debate and quiet talks with allies. Biden announced during last week’s Group of Seven summit in Japan that the U.S. would join the F-16 coalition. But over the past three months, administration officials shifted toward the view that it was time to provide Ukraine’s pilots with the training and aircraft needed for the country’s long-term security needs. This is according to two officials familiar with the deliberations.
In pilot projects, relatively-straightforward software changes have let Navy computers boot as much as 18 times faster than they did before. Officials say they want to deploy what they've learned as quickly as possible, but some changes will take time.
The new supplemental pay rates are expected to help the NSA and other defense intelligence components compete with the private sector.
In today's Federal Newscast: California lawmakers want more passport offices in their state. A losing bidder again protests a 10-year $65 billion DoD health care contract. And a CISA hiring spree, lands more than 1,300 new employees in just the past two years.
The Army’s new CIO wants to codify regulations for new software and data capabilities as he plans for new data platform contracts next year.
You're heard of the term cancel culture: getting rid of people with unpopular opinions. It's not all that new. The popular new movie Oppenheimer re-enacts the revocation of the scientist's security clearance in the 1950s, because of his opposition to the hydrogen bomb. What about today?
A report on sexual assault and harassment at the military academies recommends better access to mental health care and restructuring peer leadership.
The Army’s expanding technical specialties require leaders with the knowledge to train its young soldiers while keeping them up to date.
In today's Federal Newscast: The FBI is getting a new leader to take on insider threats. The Defense Department mobilizes resources to help in Hawaii. And the saga of the CIO-SP4 contract continues.
Lily Zeleke, the deputy chief information officer for the information enterprise at DoD, said the move to the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability is as much about taking advantage of enterprise services as it is about not breaking mission outcomes.
Venice Goodwine replaces Lauren Knausenberger, who departed in June, as the Air Force chief information officer.
Intelligence agencies are bringing more of a top-down focus to open-source intelligence (OSINT).
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.