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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.” -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
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