On DoD
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Deborah Loomis, senior adviser for climate change to the Secretary of the Navy, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk more about it.
June 17, 2022 -
DARPA's Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative focuses on fostering an ecosystem favorable to innovative companies, not just individual innovations.
June 16, 2022 -
The Air Force is exploring multiple options to ensure the service gets the products it wants and helps industry where it is struggling along the way. The war in Ukraine, supply chain shortages, COVID and inflation are all throwing a wrench in pricing and contracting.
June 16, 2022 -
The Hosting and Compute Center at the Defense Information Systems Agency is prioritizing the customers over the technology itself.
June 16, 2022 -
The Defense Department’s newest office is being billed as a new and innovative way to approach technology and data in the military, but the office’s contracting department sees itself as a trailblazer as well.
June 15, 2022 -
Here are three news items you may have missed from the recent Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference sponsored by ACT-IAC in Cambridge, Md.
June 15, 2022 -
GAO doesn't opine on whether Huntsville was the right or wrong decision. But the office says the Air Force made some fundamental missteps
June 15, 2022 -
U.S. Cyber Command wants to expand the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. To do that, it’s kicked off a broader survey of machine learning requirements across the Defense Department.
June 15, 2022 -
The Space Force organization is trying to avoid reinventing the wheel by buying technologies already developed by business.
June 14, 2022 -
The Marines Corps awarded GDIT a task order under the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) contract to test out how they can receive Microsoft Office capabilities both on-premise and in the cloud in a classified environment.
June 14, 2022 -
The Defense Department is evaluating its own processes with an eye toward making it easier for small companies to provide innovative solutions.
June 14, 2022 -
Raj Iyer, the Army’s chief information officer, said the Army’s IT and cybersecurity budget request is $16.6 billion in 2023, which is the largest of all DoD services.
June 13, 2022 -
DoD’s approach to its civilian workforce is stale, but its next moves need to be the right ones if it wants to keep bringing in the best.
June 13, 2022 -
The latest lawsuit challenging DoD's COVID-19 vaccine mandate says the Air Force's religious accommodation process is set up to make those exemptions almost impossible to get.
June 10, 2022 -
Mike Madsen, the deputy director of Defense Innovation Unit, said his organization in 2021 published 26 solicitations for commercial solutions for which it received 1,100 proposals. The solicitations on average received 43 proposals each.
June 10, 2022