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USAF adds competitive career categories for cyber, space
The Air Force is trying to improve training and talent retention by adding seven new competitive career categories for officers that will include cyber, intelligence and space.
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Navy could add new cyber leadership slot
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer says adding a new assistant secretary for cybersecurity and tightening contractors' security practices are top priorities for 2020.
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Filling the federal cyber talent pipeline
The Cybersecurity Talent Initiative aims to jumpstart cyber careers by placing university graduates in federal agencies.
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JEDI cloud deal comes down to AWS and Microsoft
A Defense Department probe into conflict of interest relating to its $10 billion cloud buy didn't find anything to derail the solicitation. An award could be coming in mid-July.
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National Guard seeks weekend cyber warriors
The National Guard wants to increase cybersecurity capacity by attracting exiting servicemembers and full-time private-sector professionals.
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DOD cloud migrations put some legacy systems on the back burner
The Defense Department is putting migration of legacy systems on hold as it moves forward with an interconnected cloud environment.
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ARL wants anticipatory AI to adapt to soldiers' needs
Brain activity could be harnessed to optimize a performance of a human-machine team, according to an ARL researcher.
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ARL explores AI-enhanced drones for the battlefield
The Army Research Laboratory is working on incorporating artificial intelligence into drones and thermal recognition tech to give warfighters increased situational awareness.
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DISA's milDrive delivers personal cloud storage
Defense Department users can now get Dropbox-like storage and file sharing and syncing services for unclassified data from their laptops and mobile devices.
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Supply chain security: the subcontractor risk
While large defense contractors typically have robust security measures in place, the smaller and medium-sized companies they subcontract with do not, making them prime targets of nation-state hackers.
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DARPA wants AI to learn like a child
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to build an automated language acquisition system that learns language the way children do -- extracting meaning from hearing sounds while observing the environment.
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DOD's AI work hindered by 'grave misperceptions'
Like every other technology used by the Defense Department, artificial intelligence will be evaluated for legal, ethical and moral concerns, DOD's AI chief says.
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IARPA seeks security footage for better algorithm training
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity wants 960 hours of annotated video data to help it train computer vision algorithms for law enforcement and public safety.
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SecDef says cyber is top modernization priority
In March 26 testimony to Congress, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan pointed to cyber modernization as a key element of DOD's $750 billion top-line budget request.
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Navy awards $446M market research contract
Three firms are chosen for a $446 million blanket purchase agreement for IT research and informative services to defense agencies.
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Army looks to put ground-penetrating radar on drones
Mounted on unmanned aerial and land vehicles, the lightweight radar-on-a-chip technology could expand the military's ability to map the shapes, sizes and features of objects in the environment.
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FY 2020 budget would slash JRSS procurement spend
The Joint Regional Security Stacks program’s buying budget could be cut in half to $88 million.
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Machine learning on the fly
The Real-Time Machine Learning Grand Challenge aims to create processors that can interpret and learn from data in real-time with the energy efficiency of the human brain.
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How a single update to acquisition law can support cloud adoption
Government desperately needs a better way to buy cloud services. The Section 809 panel's call to create a new contract type for consumption-based solutions is a great start.
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