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Defense Department

06/06/2024

VIEWPOINT: Pentagon Brings Clarity to Buy American Requirements
On Feb. 15 the Defense Department issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to implement Executive Order 14005, “Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers.”
Defense Department

04/05/2024

Vital Signs 2024: U.S. Defense Industrial Base Still Facing Headwinds
During the last 35 years, six U.S. administrations have worked tirelessly to deter peer conflict.
Battlefield Communications

04/03/2024

JUST IN: Air Force Advancing Command, Control in Middle East Fight
While the Defense Department is shifting focus to the Indo-Pacific, action is taking place today in the Middle East where Central Command is conducting defensive — and sometimes offensive — action against Iranian proxies. That action is testing and proving technologies and concepts of the Defense Department’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, said the commander of Air Forces, U.S. Central Command.
Battlefield Communications

02/02/2024

Reaching Pentagon’s CJADC2 Goals to Require ‘Bridging Solutions’
The Defense Department has a vision: take each service’s sensors and shooters, tie them all together in a seamless network that lives on a combat cloud and employ artificial intelligence to make decisions quicker than opponents can. The vision is known as Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, and despite the “joint” in the name, the Army, Navy and Air Force are pursuing their own programs.
Emerging Technologies

10/02/2023

Pentagon, Industry Partnerships Vital to Leverage 5G, FutureG Tech
The possibility of a military conflict in the Indo-Pacific has exposed weaknesses in the Defense Department’s 5G network, spurring research and development to push beyond into 6G, officials said.
Defense Department

08/07/2023

Companies Ask if Pentagon's Innovation Ecosystem Is Getting Out of Hand
For years, technology companies and defense officials lamented that the Defense Department’s acquisition system — built for procuring battleships and bombers — was too complicated and cumbersome to acquire commercial technology.
Electronics

07/25/2023

JUST IN: U.S. Semiconductor Industry Could Face Tech Worker Crisis by 2030
By 2030, the United States is projected to face a shortage of 67,100 technicians, computer scientists and engineers throughout the semiconductor industry and 1.4 million across the U.S. economy, according to a new study.
Defense Department

01/24/2023

Troops Need Training on Information Threats, Official Says
Misinformation and disinformation pose a serious threat to all levels of the armed forces, a Defense Department official said.
Emerging Technologies

01/04/2023

Pentagon Leveraging 5G To Fight in Electromagnetic Spectrum
5G has become a staple in the everyday lives of many. But for the Pentagon, the communications technology has become a key enabler for another more critical function — the ability to harness the electromagnetic spectrum for operations.
Acquisition

12/01/2022

I/ITSEC NEWS: Valley of Death Isn’t 'That Big of a Problem,' Military Official Says
The Defense Department’s so-called “Valley of Death” is in fact an important step in ensuring warfighters receive the technologies and capabilities they need, officials said.