Health IT

Who's minding the store on DOD-VA health systems collaboration?

As the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs work in parallel to implement the Cerner health record systems, Congress is worried about a single point of accountability.

Defense

Debate building around $10B JEDI procurement

Concerns around the Defense Department’s management of services for the pending Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure bubble up as award protests mount. 09/14/2018 Read More
Cybersecurity

CYBERCOM building up in-house acquisition capacity

U.S. Cyber Command's contracting office is in its "infancy" with a handful of staff and is looking to expand while showing Congress it knows what it's doing. 09/13/2018 Read More
Unmanned Systems

Why it’s so hard to reach an international agreement on killer robots

There is fundamental disagreement over whether increasing the autonomy of weapons is always bad. 09/12/2018 Read More
AI & Analytics

DARPA kicks off $2B AI initiative

The “AI Next” campaign aims to transform computers from specialized tools to partners with contextual reasoning capabilities. 09/11/2018 Read More
Defense IT

DISA announces Encore III small business awards

The Defense Information Systems Agency makes 20 awards against its $17.5 billion Encore III contract for broad enterprise IT services. 09/10/2018 Read More
Emerging Tech

DOD makes third round of IAC MAC awards

The Defense Department makes its last awards against a potential nine-year, $28 billion technology R&D contract. 09/10/2018 Read More
Identity Management

The end of CAC? Don't hold your breath

The Defense Department's common access card will continue to be a major component of the Pentagon's evolving identity management strategy, DOD CIO Dana Deasy said. 09/07/2018 Read More
Emerging Tech

Army IG school seeks to simulate whistleblower investigations

To better train military inspectors general, the Army wants role-playing simulations that will enhance investigative skills in whistleblower reprisal inquiries. 09/07/2018 Read More
Unmanned Systems

Army looks into laser-powered drones

Researchers are developing a way to generate electricity for drones by beaming a laser onto a photovoltaic cell. 09/05/2018 Read More
Defense

DISA pulls MilCloud migration RFI

The Defense Information Systems Agency withdrew a request for information on rapid cloud migration after just two days. 09/04/2018 Read More
Cloud

JEDI deadline pushed to Oct. 9

The Pentagon has relented somewhat on its full-steam ahead approach to the big-ticket cloud computing infrastructure contract, giving interested parties three more weeks to put together their bids. 09/04/2018 Read More