The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, or CDAO, has appointed Daniel Holtzman, a veteran technology leader, as deputy executive director. Holtzman announced his new position in a LinkedIn
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said “building the force of the future†requires recruitment, training and retention of service members as well as provision of healthcare support to uniformed personnel, DoD News reported Thursday.
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The Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general has assessed OPM’s compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act and found that over 18 of its information technology systems operate without valid authorizations. OPM IG said
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Robert Bigelow, founder and president of Bigelow Aerospace, has said President-elect Donald Trump’s administration should implement a twofold increase in NASA’s budget in an effort to support manned missions to the moon
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Kerry Long, program manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, has said humans have the capability to change the future of the cyber domain, C4ISRNet reported Friday. “If you think about it,
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Michael Flynn, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has been appointed national security adviser by President-elect Donald Trump, Politico reported Thursday. “I am pleased that Lieutenant
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House lawmakers have delayed negotiations on a proposed $1 trillion omnibus budget for fiscal year 2017 and plan to vote on a stopgap measure that would run through March 31, Bloomberg reported
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Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work has said the Defense Department has received “superb†support from the Intelligence Community as DoD works to manage its intelligence resources amid security threats, DoD News reported Thursday.
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Raj Shah, head of the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental organization, has said he is optimistic DIUx will continue to operate under the administration of President-elect Donald Trump amid criticisms from Republican lawmakers,
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The Congressional Budget Office has said the increasing costs of weapon systems, operation and maintenance as well as military compensation have become “internal pressures†within the Defense Department’s budget and have “exacerbated†the discrepancy between
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A New York-based contracts group under the Defense Contract Management Agency has achieved a 55 percent reduction in the number of overage cost-type contracts and lowered the dollar value of such contracts by
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