Khanna is the ranking member of a subcommittee that’s focused on technologies with the potential to threaten US national security.
Established in 2021, the HASC subcommittee oversees an array of new technologies and related strategies that inform modern warfare, including both offensive and defensive cyber-related areas.
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The legislation proposes that if one office in the department officially deems a "cloud-based platform, service, or application" is sufficiently cybersecure to use, then all parts of DoD can accept this ATO.
With AI hype outrunning reality, DoD AI chief Craig Martell told lawmakers his office is "building what we're calling a maturity model" to assess what generative AI really can and cannot do.
As it currently stands, Replicator “is kind of aiming at the wrong problem,” Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute said.
In addition to Heidi Shyu's expanded role, lawmakers have tasked the undersecretary of research and engineering to develop a strategy on how the Pentagon can leverage intellectual property to "enhance" its ability to procure emerging technologies and outpace adversaries.
“I’m confident that the Senate is ready to rapidly confirm a nominee,” Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc., said. “I’ve had many conversations to that effect.”
"I think the hesitancy on our side would be - well, so soon after creating the Space Force, we don’t want to just create a bunch of bureaucracy," Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc., said.
"So JADC2 is large and we hear people wanting to understand what's in JADC2, what's not JADC2," Rear Adm. Susan BryerJoyner said. "If you accept my premise, my hypothesis, that it's about a different way to compete and fight, almost everything is JADC2."
In its mark of the fiscal 2023 defense authorization bill, the House Armed Services Committee’s cyber, innovative technologies and information systems subcommittee says it wants to know what capabilities will be delivered to the warfighter, when they’ll be delivered and how much they’ll cost.
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"If there's one overarching theme of our approach this year, it's to transform where we're heading and focus on technology and innovation and how to start using that better," HASC Chair Smith said in opening remarks.
The new office is slated for October, Pentagon CIO John Sherman said, while also giving updates on the Spectrum Strategy implementation plan and the cyber workforce strategy.
The markup comes at a pivotal moment for the US as it intensifies competition -- while seeking to avoid conflict -- with China, in particular, which senior department officials refer to as the US's "pacing threat."
Emphasizing venture capital, modular open architecture, and software development will help turn neat ideas into battle-ready weapons, acquisition gurus told Congress. But having separate bureaucracies for Research & Engineering and Acquisition & Sustainment may be a problem.