In light of recent advancements in autonomous technologies, the Department of Defense has made tremendous efforts to understand the role of these tools in warfighting operations and fully harness the benefits autonomy can provide. When implementing these technologies, cultivating a relationship between human operators and new technology is cruc...
Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer of the Department of the Air Force, recently accepted her third Wash100 Award during a meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. In the award’s monumental 10th run, Knausenberger was selected for her dedication to bolstering DAF technological capabilities. Within the past year,...
With the increasing importance of technologies such as the cloud, zero trust architecture and artificial intelligence, the need for modernization has grown, and the U.S. military has made technology transformation a priority to keep up with the demands of the rapidly evolving warfighting landscape. To address these needs, Lauren Knausenberger, chie...
As the nature of threats continues to evolve, novel technologies, such as artificial intelligence, the cloud and numerous others, have grown in priority as the U.S. works to maintain its information advantage. Military service officers and executives who took part in a panel discussion Wednesday at ExecutiveBiz’s Information Warfare Forum sa...
Changes in global activity and geopolitical developments in the last few years have catalyzed a heavy focus on near-peer competition within the Department of Defense. As the DOD shifts away from its primary focus for the last two decades, counterterrorism, and toward the escalating global competition, defense leaders are reshaping their priorities t...
Crucial for interoperability with international allies, mission partner environments are shared communications spaces that allow for ease of collaboration with aligned governments. Joint All Domain Command and Control is the U.S. Department of Defense’s initiative to achieve communications cross-functionality between all of the country’s deploye...
The United States’ space-focused enterprises in the public sector are emerging from big shifts and reorganization more united and cohesive than ever before. For the Department of the Air Force, which encompasses both the Air Force and the Space Force, this new era of unity kicked off with the arrival of Frank Calvelli, assistant secretary...
The current space architecture and methodologies for developing and fielding new space technologies came about before space was a contested arena. Or, perhaps in the time between when space was first a contested environment — the Space Race of the 1950s through the 1970s — and the present day. In the modern climate, nations such...
As the U.S. military pivots toward the escalating peer competition and accelerates its migration to the cloud, its leaders are examining how to leverage cloud computing from operational scenarios all the way to the tactical edge. Expanding the military’s technological capabilities at the edge is going to be paramount in the future fight, according...
The Department of the Air Force has selected five companies to be part of an industry consortium that will define future requirements and develop the digital infrastructure for the Advanced Battle Management System. L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Science App...
