Cybersecurity
NTIA Wants Feedback on Software Transparency Plan
One high-profile expert raised the ever-looming workforce challenge in suggesting the juice might not yet be worth the squeeze.
Podcasts
Critical Update: How to Develop Apps for Supercomputers that Don’t Exist Yet
The Energy Department will soon launch machines capable of completing a quintillion calculations a second.
Artificial Intelligence
Air Force, Space Force Projects Will Speed Object Identification, Security Implementation
One project will use generative AI to identify space objects and another will use automation to improve the security compliance process in Space Force software development.
Modernization
Software and startups top priorities for DOD tech chief pick
Heidi Shyu, who previously served as the Army's assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, debuted her priorities to modernize the military with a strong emphasis on software during her Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on May 25.
Podcasts
Critical Update: Do You Know What’s In Your Software?
In the wake of several major cybersecurity incidents, the government wants to shore up its software supply chain. Two experts explain the merits of some approaches and why there’s no silver bullet.
Emerging Tech
Lockheed, Air Force Software Factory Helps Field New Strike Planning Aid System
The contractor built new DevSecOps pipelines for Rogue Blue software factory in Nebraska.
Ideas
Modernizing Container Security Is Essential to Secure Application Development
Most traditional security tools agencies rely on aren’t designed to effectively show what’s going on inside of a container.
Ideas
How Design Thinking Can Improve Public Sector IT
With its push to provide faster, more predictable and higher quality software, public sector IT organizations may have discounted the need for design.
Modernization
How the Army Software Factory Preps Soldiers for Future Battlefields
Program lead Maj. Vito Errico said the project is focused on helping the Army figure out how to organize product teams for the future force.
Cybersecurity
DOD expands bug bounty program to public networks, systems
The vulnerability disclosure program, which was started from the Defense Digital Service's 2016 Hack the Pentagon initiative, was initially restricted to public-facing websites and applications.
Podcasts
Critical Update: What Platform One Brings to the Pentagon’s Software Game
Air Force Chief Software Officer Nicolas Chaillan and industry experts explain how Platform One is eliminating barriers to entry for DevSecOps teams.
Modernization
Air Force to Field Kessel Run Command and Control Product
The service wants feedback on a suite of tools called Kessel Run All Domain Operations Suite, or KRADOS, to continue developing it.
Modernization
HASC chair calls for new incentives to reduce defense costs
Divesting of legacy systems to make way for new technologies is expensive and at the heart of the Defense Department's budget debate. But could new incentives for contractors make a difference?
Ideas
How Do You Retire Technology and Limit Risk?
The challenge is that while many get excited about the new software when it’s installed, too few make long-term plans for removal at software end of life.
Modernization
DOD’s Deputy CIO Wants to Change the Conversation on IT
Danielle Metz, leader for the information enterprise, discusses the misconceptions about the office of the CIO, the ongoing Fourth Estate Network Optimization project and the importance of software modernization.
Podcasts
Critical Update: The Programmers of Public Service
Meet two federal software developers: One at the start of their career and the other nearing the end.
Modernization
Supply chain risk: Addressing a multitude of single points of failure
As recent attacks have demonstrated, supply chain risks extend to the software and update process as well.
Ideas
From COBOL to Cloud: DOD’s Digital Journey
Migrating big systems can be a huge project. But technologies are standing by to help you achieve it.
Modernization
The Air Force Is Making an App That Basically Does What a General Does
The nascent app aims to generate options, recommendations, and mission orders.
Cybersecurity