Creating decision advantage for defense agencies through a platform approach
Key elements for enabling data-driven decision advantage across the U.S. Defense Community.
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Pentagon seeks open-source software for 5G, 6G networks
The Defense Department will hold an online industry day for interested vendors May 7, issue a Request for Prototype Proposals in early June, and award contracts by mid-September, said Thomas Rondeau, the Pentagon’s director for “FutureG.”
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Cybersecurity skills don’t come from a manual, but from practical hands-on training
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
Oracle teams up with Singapore defense agency to pilot air-gapped cloud platform
“Through this pilot collaboration with Oracle, we will harness advanced cloud and AI technologies to digitalise and transform our operations," Chief Executive of Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency Ng Chad-Son said.
Don’t blow the budget on ChatGPT: Army CIO sounds alarm on big bills for GenAI
“Let’s not have a bazillion flowers blooming in this space,” said Leonel Garciga. “That gets expensive very fast, and it gets really hard to protect our data.”
NATO agency unveils first-of-its-kind tech strategy for multi-domain operations
The strategy introduces the NATO Digital Foundry, a project that will provide opportunities for NCIA, industry, not-for-profit organizations and other NATO stakeholders to collaborate on new technologies.
NATO CIO: Alliance-wide classified cloud system is in the works
“The very fact of collocating the data in the same instance, or within the same environment or infrastructure, is very, very helpful," Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer, NATO's CIO, said.
Michigan: Arsenal of Democracy for dangerous times
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
Full house: Google to be final JWCC partner authorized for Secret-level cloud work in 2025
Lt. Col. John Hall, DISA's point man on the Pentagon's massive cloud project, told Breaking Defense that having all four cloud providers at Impact Level-6 helps prevent vendor lock and keeps the companies "honest."
Five Eyes officials say they want a shared Top Secret cloud, someday
“Not only would this cloud be a top secret cloud, but it would be classification agnostic as well, because the data is all tagged, because all of my users all have the correct digital identities, I can store all the data in the cloud," said Brig. Gen. Eric Vandenbeg of the Canadian Department of National Defence.
Take off ‘handcuffs’ and make DoD information technology buying more ‘agile,’ DISA official says
“We still buy IT as if it was a weapon system," John Hale, chief of cloud services at DISA, said, adding that he sometimes felt he's "banged [his] head against the wall."
Hypori secures $4.1M contract for Department of the Air Force’s virtual mobile software
Hypori will grant 10,000 virtual licenses across the Air Force and Space Force, after helping the Army with a somewhat bumpy IT transition of its own.
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Supercomputers on demand: Rescale, Parallel Works ramp up for DIU cloud contract
“You click a big button and in two minutes, you get one of these [high-powered computing] systems ready to go," Matthew Shaxted, co-founder and CEO of Parallel Works, told Breaking Defense of a new DIU initiative.
Google Cloud unveils new appliance to bring cloud, AI to ‘tactical edge’
Inside the Pentagon, the air-gapped module will be used by the Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office (RSO) "to bring the maintenance digital ecosystem to Airmen in austere and forward deployed locations," the tech giant says.
Google parent company seeks $23 billion cloud computing acquisition: Reports
Wiz's focus on cloud security means it would likely play a part in the DoD’s JWCC Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability initiative.
Army teases pilot generative AI program to start in July
One of the hopeful uses of the new LLM is for the government to create contracts at a quicker rate.