Carley Welch's profile photo

Carley Welch

Washington, D.C., United States

Journalist at Freelance

Networks and Digital Warfare Reporter at Breaking Defense

Networks and Digital Warfare Reporter @BreakingDefense, past: Politico & The Messenger | email: cwelch at breaking media dot com

Featured in: Favicon themessenger.com Favicon msn.com Favicon flipboard.com Favicon rvamag.com Favicon breezejmu.org Favicon breakingdefense.com Favicon newsbreak.com Favicon realcleardefense.com Favicon dealbreaker.com Favicon thewash.org

Articles

  • DARPA aims to make defense firms 'much, much harder' to hack with 'formal methods' push

    1 week ago | breakingdefense.com | Carley Welch

    WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the launch of what the agency is calling a “mini” cybersecurity capstone program today, to push the defense industrial base (DIB) in ways that “make it so that we don’t lose our next serious conflict.”“We haven’t had a major hack that’s had national security consequences. It hasn’t happened in the past, so it’s not going to happen in the future, right?

  • Army Seeks Hefty Boost in Network Funding in DoD Procurement Proposal

    1 week ago | realcleardefense.com | Carley Welch

    The "tactical network communications” portfolio saw a jump of over $488 million compared to last year.

  • Army seeks hefty boost in network funding in Pentagon procurement proposal

    1 week ago | breakingdefense.com | Carley Welch

    WASHINGTON — As the Army rushes to modernize its IT and communications networks, the recently revealed Pentagon procurement budget shows the service wants to pour hundreds of millions more into related portfolios. The biggest increases were seen in the “management initialization and service” portfolio, with a jump to $244 million from $49 million last year.

  • Senate Republicans 'very close' to deal to protect key DoD spectrum in reconciliation language

    2 weeks ago | breakingdefense.com | Theresa Hitchens |Carley Welch

    WASHINGTON — After months of intra-party wrangling, Senate Republicans are “very close” to a deal in their version of the budget reconciliation package that prohibits the auctioning to commercial telecommunications firms of a key band of the electromagnetic spectrum currently reserved for use by military air and missile defense radars.

  • Planet Labs inks 'seven-figure' deal with NATO for AI-enhanced surveillance capabilities

    2 weeks ago | breakingdefense.com | Carley Welch

    WASHINGTON — Planet Labs, a satellite imagery and data company, announced it was awarded a seven-figure contract to deliver artificial intelligence/machine learning-enhanced surveillance capabilities for NATO’s “strategic areas of interest.” Planet will supply NATO with “a specialized platform solution” that leverages its PlanetScope Broad Area Monitoring suite — a slew of capabilities that utilize high-resolution daily satellite monitoring and other data and analytic tools to detect any...

Contact details

Emails

[email protected]

Socials & Sites

Try JournoFinder For Free

Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.

Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →

X (formerly Twitter)

Followers
348
Tweets
652
DMs Open
No
Carley Welch
Carley Welch @carley_welch_
18 Jun 25

RT @martinmatishak: Asked about @US_CYBERCOM/@NSACyber dual-hat, Joint Chiefs Chair Caine says he can "can argue both sides of that one ...…

Carley Welch
Carley Welch @carley_welch_
17 Jun 25

DARPA announced the launch of what the agency is calling a “mini” cybersecurity capstone program today. Its goal is to push the defense industrial base to adopt formal methods to reach cyber resiliency. https://t.co/iDgxkZFUld

Carley Welch
Carley Welch @carley_welch_
16 Jun 25

RT @MikePesoli: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests.