Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. David Egts is chief technologist at Red Hat U.S. Public Sector. It’s been said 80 percent an organization’s budget is spent “keeping the lights on” with ongoing operations and maintenance. That leaves only 20 percent left over for innovation. Based on conversations I’ve had with government agency leaders, this […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Defense Department officially opened its second experimental tech unit, DIUx 2.0, in Boston, while announcing a faster agile tech development capability and new prototype work. Although the Pentagon’s Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) in Boston has been working on a number of technology development efforts for […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. WASHINGTON, July 18, 2016 — On Aug. 4 in Las Vegas, seven computers will compete in the first all-machine cyber defense tournament, the result of a multiyear effort by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to bring autonomy to the problem of making computers secure. Mike Walker, program manager […]

Relevant links can be found at the bottom of this post. The Senate’s plan to reorganize the Defense Department still needs the approval of the House before it can reach the President and today may have moved the bill one step closer. A triumvirate of former Pentagon officials gave the House Armed Services mostly positive reviews […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. 6/24/2016 – WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Lt. Gen. John Thompson, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander, is behind a competition that may yield ideas large and small, resulting in changes to the ways the multi-site center works — for the better. Between now and July 16, all […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. Jack Wilmer, vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Development and Business Center, spoke about the security, culture, and business process challenges associated with migrating applications to the commercial cloud during the fifth annual MeriTalk Cloud Computing Brainstorm. The event, held June 15 at […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of  this post. 6/9/2016 – WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — A team in the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is searching far and wide for innovative, cost-effective solutions to critical national technology concerns. The Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) program selects promising new technologies that can be quickly inserted into military systems, […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. 6/1/2016 – WASHINGTON (AFNS) — The Air Force released a flight plan directing development activity as a result of a yearlong study focused on developing capability options to ensure joint force air superiority in 2030 and beyond. According to the unclassified version of the Air Superiority 2030 Flight Plan, released May […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. By Sean Lyngaas May 23, 2016 A request for proposals for the second version of the Defense Department’s on-premise cloud computing environment is coming in about two weeks, the department said in a contracting notice. The Department of Defense rolled out milCloud, as the in-house cloud service […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. 5/16/2016 – WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — A few months ago, I was reading the book “How We Got to Now,” by Steven Johnson, and noted in one section many parallels with the materiel work we do in our Air Force. The book described a team of multinational engineer, machinist, […]