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The Pentagon is trying ‘to be less hard to work with’ for tech companies
The Pentagon is attempting “to be less hard to work with” on data and IT projects, its chief digital officer said recently.One way is to hold a series of industry days, starting in mid-July, Chief Digital and Artificial…
Defense One Radio, Ep. 157: Tech Summit: The Pentagon’s Maynard Holiday
Defense One Radio, Ep. 157: Tech Summit: The Pentagon’s Maynard Holiday - Defense One
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China is turning to private firms for offensive cyber operations
Recent leaks and other revelations about Beijing’s use of hacking companies are shedding light on how privatization with Chinese characteristics is changing the government’s intelligence operations.In February, 577 documents stolen from the…
Homeland Security tests AI waters with tools for intel analysts
Intelligence analysts at the Homeland Security Department are experimenting with cloud-based AI tools on sensitive but unclassified data to help make their jobs easier—but there will always be a human in the loop, Avery Alpha, principal…
The US can improve Egypt’s security at minimal expense. It should do so, post-haste
Egypt is prime real estate in a bad neighborhood. On its eastern border, it has the Gaza war, and is struggling to contain the combat while dealing with popular opinion which is horrified by the scale of destruction in Gaza yet fearful…
Supercomputer cloud services greenlit by Pentagon’s innovation office
Troops in the field may soon have supercomputers at their fingertips, thanks to a Pentagon project that’s set to move from prototype to product.For 18 months, software companies Rescale and Parallel Works have worked to show that they can…
The D Brief: Taiwan leaders on China; Patriots to Ukraine?; Moscow’s Africa disinfo; Gaza pier…
Taiwanese officials don’t see war with China as inevitable or unavoidable even as Chinese military aircraft and ships cross the median line of the Taiwan Strait nearly every day in an apparently growing campaign of harassment.“They are…
War with China not inevitable, Taiwan government officials say
TAIPEI, Taiwan—While Chinese military aircraft and ships cross the median line of the Taiwan Strait every day in a growing campaign of harassment, the island does not see war with China as inevitable or unavoidable, top government officials…
Army tests next-gen long-range fires capability in Pacific
“Everything went fantastic” when the U.S. Army fired its new long-range missiles from its prototype uncrewed missile launcher at a target off the coast of Palau, the first such launch outside the continental United States, a U.S. Army…
African governments express rising alarm about Russian disinformation
African defense leaders have “consistent” and growing concerns about the destabilizing effects of Russian disinformation, the commander of U.S. Africa Command said Thursday at the Africa Chiefs of Defense Conference in Botswana. “That…
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