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Cybersecurity

06/02/2025

CMMC: Defense Industry Gears Up For Cybersecurity Program Implementation
Shortly before the start of the new year, the final rule for the Defense Department’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program went into effect, over five years since the program was created.
Defense Department

01/07/2025

Army, Pentagon Explore AI’s Potential to Transform Acquisition
The Army recently announced a new pilot project to explore potential applications of generative AI for the service’s acquisition activities. At the same time, the Defense Department as a whole is making a concerted effort to put advanced capabilities not only into the hands of warfighters but also those buying their equipment.
Emerging Technologies

07/24/2024

Testing Top of Mind as U.S. Lags China In Hypersonics Race
Hypersonics are seen as an important technology in the ongoing strategic competition with China and Russia. Several organizations in the United States are working to build up the testing infrastructure that can help accelerate the development of these high-speed systems.
Defense Department

07/22/2024

BREAKING: New Arctic Strategy Calls For Updated Cold-Weather Tech
The Pentagon’s new Arctic strategy released July 22 calls for the services to field robust sensors, communications links and unmanned systems that can function in the region’s harsh environments.
Defense Department

07/22/2024

Context Key for Medical Trauma Training, Study Finds
ARLINGTON, Virginia — What’s the best trauma simulation technology for military medical training? That’s a question the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation explored in a study.
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.