Artificial Intelligence
DARPA Thinks Insect Brains Might Hold the Secret to Next-Gen AI
They’re small, efficient and capable of basic reasoning, and researchers want artificial intelligence tools to do the same.
Emerging Tech
Air Force Turns to GSA Pilot for DevOps Platform
The Air Force is using GSA’s Commercial Solutions Opening pilot program to speed through the acquisition process.
Digital Government
Defense Companies Starting to Feel Effect of U.S. Government Shutdown
Firms working for NASA, DHS, and other shuttered federal agencies are taking hits to their cash flow.
Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon Seeks a List of Ethical Principles for Using AI in War
An advisory board is drafting guidelines that may help shape worldwide norms for military artificial intelligence — and woo Silicon Valley to defense work.
Digital Government
America, Meet Your (Acting) Secretary of Defense
With no military experience and just a year and a half in government, the former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan has yet to develop a foreign-policy vision of his own.
Digital Government
Editor’s Favorites of 2018
As we say goodbye to 2018, Nextgov's executive editor revisits some of our most impactful and important stories from the previous year.
Digital Government
Your Favorite Stories of 2018
Nextgov readers have great taste and according to our most-read stories of 2018, that includes a hankering for the administration's major tech policies and a touch of scandal.
Digital Government
Hard-Nosed Pentagon Negotiator Removed From Job; Racked Up Huge Travel Costs
Shay Assad also backed a controversial plan to slow payments to defense contractors.
Modernization
Pentagon Completes First App Migration to MilCloud 2.0
The Defense Department is beginning to move applications to its milCloud 2.0, its next-generation on premise cloud solution.
Modernization
Pentagon to Connect Experimental Background Check App To Other Systems By Year’s End
The Defense Department is testing its nascent app on 1,000 security clearance applicants ahead of an October deadline to take over all investigations work.
Digital Government
The Pentagon Doesn’t Know All the Software on Its Networks—And That’s a Problem
The Defense Department faces “unnecessary” risk without a complete software inventory, according to the agency’s inspector general.
Cybersecurity
Poor Security Could Leave U.S. Defenseless Against Missile Attacks
The details of the nation’s ballistic missile defense system are vulnerable to inside and outside threats, the Defense Department inspector general found.
Digital Government
Amazon Intervenes in Oracle’s JEDI Lawsuit
A judge ruled that Amazon Web Services has standing in Oracle’s case against the Defense Department regarding its massive cloud contract.
Ideas
The Divide Between Silicon Valley and Washington Is a National-Security Threat
Closing the gap between technology leaders and policy makers will require a radically different approach from the defense establishment.
Digital Government
Pentagon to Take Over All Security Clearances in Nine Months, Officials Say
The move will mean absorbing the National Background Investigations Bureau and its 2,000 employees.
Modernization
GAO Dismisses IBM’s JEDI Protest
With the U.S. Court of Federal Claims addressing a similar case, the Government Accountability Office dismissed IBM’s protest.
Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon Needs a Faster Buying Process to Adopt Artificial Intelligence
The Defense Department needs a startup mentality for the emerging tech, agency CIO Dana Deasy said.
Modernization