Tag: Defense

(USA) Exclusive Interview: Lockheed’s CEO Wants His Company to Connect All the Pentagon’s Weapons (Defense One)

Marcus Weisgerber writes for Defense One: The Pentagon should start electronically connecting its most important weapons first as it builds a broader strategy to...

USA – The single vendor requirement ultimately doomed the DoD’s $10B JEDI cloud contract (Ron Miller, TechCrunch)

When the Pentagon killed the JEDI cloud program yesterday, it was the end of a long and bitter road for a project that never seemed...

USA – Air Force Wants to Build DevSecOps Enclave for Secure Processing (Mila Jasper, Nextgov)

The Air Force wants to build a multi-level security network to enable secure processing for the Defense Department’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept,...

USA – A Catch-22 Is Keeping Telemedicine Off the Battlefield (Patrick Tucker, Nextgov)

Say telemedicine, and you might imagine two-way video or perhaps haptic sensors and augmented reality—features that need enormous bandwidth. A Catch-22 Is Keeping Telemedicine Off...

USA – Pentagon Cancels JEDI Cloud Contract (Mila Jasper, Frank Konkel, Defense One)

The Defense Department is canceling the embattled Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, officials announced Tuesday. Pentagon Cancels JEDI Cloud Contract - Defense One GLOWIMAGES VIA GETTY...

USA – How JEDI’s Ghost Will Bring Bitter Rivals Together (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Now that the Defense Department has canceled its signature $10 billion enterprise cloud computing contract, what’s next for the military’s cloud needs? How JEDI’s Ghost...

TechInnovation/Defense/USA – The Convergence of Man and Machine, But Better (Yi Se Gwon, Defense One)

The Department of Defense is moving toward a future when many processes now done by hand will be done automatically by artificial intelligence and...

USA – Air Force tests new approach for assigning cyber missions (Mark Pomerleau, Defense News)

The Air Force’s 67th Cyberspace Wing is experimenting with a new method for doling out tasks to defensive cyberspace operators. Air Force tests new approach...

USA – Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract delayed by Microsoft, Amazon feud (Andrew Eversden, Defense News)

The Department of Defense announced Tuesday it canceled its contract with Microsoft for an enterprise cloud to bring decisive data to the battlefield, a...

USA – Huntington Ingalls to buy Alion Science and Technology for $1.65 billion (Joe Gould, Defense News)

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Tuesday an agreement to buy Alion Science and Technology for $1.65 billion in cash from Veritas Capital ― the latest...

USA – Raytheon wins $2B contract for new nuclear cruise missile (Valerie Insinna, Defense News)

Raytheon Technologies will get up to $2 billion to develop the U.S. Air Force’s Long Range Standoff Weapon system, a new nuclear-capable, air-launched cruise...

TechInnovation/Defense – Nobody wins as DoD finally pulls the plug on controversial $10B JEDI contract (Ron Miller, TechCrunch)

After several years of fighting and jockeying for position by the biggest cloud infrastructure companies in the world, the Pentagon finally pulled the plug...

Defense/Military/China – China displays land, sea, air combat robots at expo (Liu Xuanzun, Global Times)

China introduced some of its latest achievements in military intelligent technology by displaying advanced land, sea and air combat robots at an expo in...

USA/Defense – Marines explain vision for fewer traditional amphibious warships (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

U.S. Marine Corps AAV-P7/A1 assault amphibious vehicles assigned to Combat Assault Company, 3rd Marine Regiment, unload service members during an amphibious landing demonstration as...

USA/Defense/TechInnovation – Pentagon to reveal JEDI cloud computing contract’s future in coming weeks (Joe Gould, Defense News)

(Peggy Frierson/U.S. Army)  As the Pentagon mulls whether to scrap the so-called JEDI cloud computing contract worth potentially $10 billion, it will decide what’s next within a...

Germany/Defense – German government ups the pressure in $1.1B Poseidon purchase petition (Sebastian Sprenger, Defense News)

(Petty Officer 3rd Class Juan Sua/U.S. Navy) German government officials are asking for lawmakers’ approval to buy five P-8 Poseidon maritime-surveillance and submarine-hunting aircraft from...