Maj. Gen. Jeth Rey, Director, Network Cross-Functional Team, Army Futures Command, discusses data centricity for the Army of 2040 at AUSA Global Force Symposium & Exposition 2023 on May 28, 2023 in Huntsville, Alabama. (U.S. Army Photo by Patrick Hunter) Army to get new top uniformed network official Maj. Gen. Jeth Rey was nominated to be the Army’s next deputy chief of staff, G6. By Mark Pomerleau
A network diagram of Slingshot Agatha data depicting the relationships among satellites within multiple, real-world, foreign constellations (Slingshot Aerospace image) DARPA harnesses AI to keep tabs on space weapons, spy satellites on orbit AI By Mikayla Easley
Sgt. Victor Sanchez, a fire direction coordinator assigned to Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 258th Artillery Regiment, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the New York Army National Guard, operates an advanced field artillery tactical data system to calculate aiming data to relay to the howitzer teams during an air assault artillery raid on Fort Drum, N.Y. on June 9, 2017. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Alexander Rector) Edge compute-as-a-service? The Army is curious Tech By Mark Pomerleau
House appropriators propose more than $1.3B for DIU, other tech acceleration initiatives By Jon Harper
Navy’s Acting CTO, Justin Fanelli and Active CDO, Duncan McCaskill How the Navy is reducing workforce friction to improve mission outcomes
Meet the 2024 DefenseScoop 50 Awards winners Now in their second year, the DefenseScoop 50 awards honor the most influential people and projects across the defense technology community. By DefenseScoop Staff
Navy’s Justin Fanelli on how the technology sector can help the U.S. military contend with the evolving threat landscape By Scoop News Group
(Source: Scoop News Group) Defense leaders on accelerating mission with AI and security By Scoop News Group
Joseph Larson, III, deputy chief digital and AI officer for the DOD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office speaks on a panel at Google NEXT. Task Force Lima spurs movement in the DOD to understand generative AI By Scoop News Group
Dr. Wanda Jones-Heath on how DOD’s mission will evolve thanks to emerging technologies By Scoop News Group
Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner on what technologies will have the greatest impact on DOD’s mission By Scoop News Group
The latest on the Pentagon’s major cloud acquisition, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability By DefenseScoop Staff
Bryan Thomas, Managing Director, Department of Defense, Google Public Sector How differentiating cloud provider’s capabilities will be a boon to defense agencies By Scoop News Group
The U.S. Naval Observatory celebrates the 150th birthday of one of its most important telescopes By DefenseScoop Staff
U.S. Army Specialist Melvin Robertson, a signal support systems specialist, attached to Task Force Wolfhound participates in electronic warfare training in Djibouti, Africa on Feb. 9, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joseph P. LeVeille) Army units won’t all receive the same electronic warfare systems — and ‘that’s OK,’ officials say
Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. The CAOC is comprised of a joint and coalition team that executes day-to-day combined air and space operations and provides rapid reaction, positive control, coordination, and de-confliction of weapon systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joshua Strang) Combatant commands poised to scale targeting capabilities via Palantir’s Maven system
Tactical radios are driving force behind the Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) suite of communications and networking hardware and software that provides voice and data communication capabilities to tactical units, and were employed by the 25th Infantry Division throughout the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) 24-01 exercise, held at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in November 2023. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army/Sam Brooks) Army developing next generation of command and control for all units, echelons
Staff Sgt. Kristoffer Perez, Cyber Electromagnetic Activities section, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, points toward a nearby objective during the final day of training with his section’s new equipment at Fort Riley, Kansas. (Photo by Sgt. Michael C. Roach, 19th Public Affairs Detachment) Army examining what electronic warfare means in the future, ‘tranching’ capabilities to units
Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract to prototype the Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team system on Strykers. (Lockheed Martin photo) Army plans to split up signals intelligence, electronic warfare platform
A woman walks under a sign of big data analytics US software company Palantir at their stand ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 22, 2022. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) Palantir lands $480M Army contract for Maven artificial intelligence tech
Weapons cargo bound for Ukraine is loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III during a security assistance mission at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Sept. 14, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Marco A. Gomez) Inside the ‘whole-of-government’ approach to watchdogging US assistance to Ukraine
Andrew Hunter, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, speaks during the panel discussion “Answering the Warfighters’ Needs” at the Air and Space Forces Association 2023 Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colo., March 7, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Eric Dietrich) Air Force aims to field new moving target indication capability in 2027
U.S. Army Soldiers, assigned to the 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, and the Artificial Intelligence Integration Center, conduct drone test flights and software troubleshooting during Allied Spirit 24 at the Hohenfels Training Area, Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Germany, March 6, 2024. (U.S. Army photo by Micah Wilson) Army lays out strategy for new $1B contract vehicle for modern software development
U.S. Space Force 1LTs Brandon Wilkinson, (left) and Nicholas Stawinski (right), Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) operators for the 4th Space Operations Squadron, observe their monitors at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, April 8, 2022. (U.S. Space Force Photo by Dennis Rogers) Space Force getting cloud-based, classified environment for industry collaborations
Satellite rendering (Millennium Space Systems) SDA restructuring ground support program for experimental sats to focus on fire-control missions
Inside U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade, Maryland. (Josef Cole / DOD / U.S. Cyber Command) House bill directs Pentagon’s network defense arm to become subordinate unified command