Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman, a 2023 Wash100 awardee, wants to fast-track the provision of top-secret cloud capabilities to warfighters as the tools are critical for ground forces operating on the battlefield. Sherman said on Thursday at DefenseScoop’s DefenseTalks that the Pentagon never had the enterprise cloud capability arising from the $9 […]
The Department of Homeland Security issued a request for information on May 5 for a cloud-enabled biometric identity and system requirement validation system. According to the RFI posted on SAM .gov, the DHS Office of Biometric Identity Management wants a tool that can perform multiple functions, such as serving as a centralized collaboration of in-house […]
The U.S. Air Force has given $1.8 million to a team composed of Air National Guard airmen and a U.S. Army civilian from the U.S. Special Operations Command for a solution that collates phased aircraft maintenance data to provide workers, warfighters and officials with a common, real-time view of information. The software was pitched to […]
Microsoft considers the accelerated and secure handover of three chips developed through the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes secure design capability a major milestone in the semiconductors and microelectronics industry. Microsoft helped develop the chips within its mission-critical Azure Government cloud infrastructure in compliance with the supply chain requirements of the Department of Defense. BAE Systems and […]
The U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office has designated a piece of artificial intelligence-powered software as its first Condition Based Maintenance Plus and predictive maintenance system of record. The Predictive Analysis and Decision Assistant is an AI software toolkit developed by the RSO and C3 AI that brings technologies and information infrastructure to facilitate CBM+ […]
The Department of the Army’s science board is conducting market research to identify available products, science and technology research, operational concepts and other innovations that can support the evaluation of datasets for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. The Army is interested in methodologies and techniques that should be used for data set protection and […]
The Department of Defense intends to take an active defense stance when it comes to keeping its commercial cloud networks secure by checking internal security, scanning internet protocol addresses and red teaming to look for vulnerabilities on various systems. Recent cybersecurity incidents have kept the DOD on a high alert despite the rigorous security checks and […]
The Department of the Air Force is looking to migrate its software development platform to the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, the Pentagon’s multi-cloud program. Lauren Knausenberger, the Air Force’s chief information officer, said at the recent AFCEA TechNet Cyber conference that the move would be beneficial because Platform One is meant to provide services to […]
The Department of Labor has partnered with Stanford University for an artificial intelligence prototyping project as part of the modernization road map for the unemployment insurance system. The launch of the project in May is one of the milestones under the $2 billion American Rescue Plan Act UI Modernization program, which aims to make the […]
Booz Allen Hamilton said its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, made a strategic investment in responsible artificial intelligence company Credo AI. The investment will allow Booz Allen to integrate Credo AI’s governance software platform, bringing responsible AI into model development, testing, deployment and monitoring pipelines and ecosystems. The deal would also help AI […]
