Lauren Knausenberger, the Department of the Air Force’s chief information officer, spoke at a Billington Cybersecurity event about the service’s progress on zero trust implementation and future plans. She said that she expects “to have a central image employing our zero trust end point solution” and complementary automation before she vacates the CIO position in […]
The secretary of the Department of the Air Force said there are plans to incorporate 1,000 unmanned aerial vehicles in its fleet as drone wingmen. Speaking at the Air and Space Forces Association’s AFA Warfare Symposium on Tuesday, 2023 Wash100 winner Frank Kendall shared that two collaborative combat aircraft will be paired with 200 Next-Generation […]
The Department of Defense has announced a total of $2 million for the latest funding round of the Defense Education and Civilian University Research partnership. Six teams composed of faculty members from civilian and military universities will undertake research projects set to last three to four years each. DECUR, a program under the Minerva Research […]
Raytheon Technologies will serve as the lead systems integrator for maritime upgrades to the U.S. Navy’s relocatable over-the-horizon radar, which will be used to detect from up to 3,000 kilometers away ships and aircraft aiming to smuggle drugs into the United States. Specific tasks include the installation of digital receivers, high-power transmitters, tracking capabilities and […]
An official from the Department of the Air Force said data modernization is a significant undertaking because of the size of the organization. Aaron Bishop, the chief information security officer at the DAF and a speaker at the Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual CIO Summit, said one challenge for the department is the vast number […]
Department of Defense officials said generative artificial intelligence could ease red tape and take over time-consuming tasks. Speaking at a Billington Cybersecurity-hosted event, Lauren Knausenberger, the chief information officer at the Department of the Air Force, shared that a generative AI-powered chatbot like ChatGPT could find files, answer frequently asked questions and perform other clerical […]
Boeing will develop an E-7A battle management and command-and-control aircraft prototype for the U.S. Air Force under a potential $1.2 billion contract. The modernized battlefield management aircraft called Wedgetail was originally built for the Royal Australian Air Force. According to Andrew Hunter, Air Force acquisition chief and a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, Wedgetails would […]
U.S. Army Gen. James Dickinson, commander of U.S. Space Command, discussed ongoing efforts to increase the number of space situational awareness data-sharing agreements with allied countries and the commercial and education sectors. He told attendees of the third annual SPACECOM Legal Conference in Colorado that 169 such partnerships are currently being maintained, of which 129 […]
The International Trade Administration has appointed Gerald Caron as chief information officer, a position that had been vacant since January 2022 when then ITA CIO Rona Bunn moved to the private sector. Caron, a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, held the CIO and assistant inspector general for information technology roles at the Department of Health […]
Research from the Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate revealed that some facial recognition systems met performance thresholds for all demographic groups while others had varying results. According to the directorate’s 2022 biometric tech rally research, identity systems that handle groups of people have been improving. Still, some systems are having difficulties in […]
