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  • 1 day ago | airandspaceforces.com | Shaun Waterman

    A new fast-track approval process for software on Defense Department networks will use AI tools to radically shorten a process that currently takes months or years, Acting Pentagon Chief Information Officer Katie Arrington said April 23.

  • 1 week ago | airandspaceforces.com | Shaun Waterman |Greg Hadley

    Hickham Air Force Base in Hawaii is testing novel energy technology to provide electrical power and hydrogen fuel in the kind of isolated and austere outposts the Air Force will need in the Pacific theater for its new Agile Combat Employment way of warfare. The technology, developed by a majority veteran-founded startup based in Houston, employs wind and solar power to use electrolysis to make hydrogen from water in the atmosphere.

  • 1 week ago | airandspaceforces.com | Shaun Waterman

    Military software developers are using generative AI-powered coding assistants to help them modernize decades-old legacy codebases, officials said this week.  And the Department of the Air Force Bot Operations Team (DAFBOT), part of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, says it is leading the way.

  • 2 weeks ago | airandspaceforces.com | Shaun Waterman

    Defense IT contractors who can demonstrate an assured supply chain and secure coding practices will soon be able to get fast track approval to have their products operate on DOD networks, radically shortening a process that often takes months or years at present, Pentagon Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer said April 10.

  • 2 weeks ago | airandspaceforces.com | Shaun Waterman

    To employ autonomous weapons systems like pilotless aircraft and other artificial intelligence-powered innovations, the U.S. military will have to overhaul not just its strategy and tactics in every domain, but also the way it tests its technology, according to the Defense Department’s first ever AI chief.

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Shaun Waterman
Shaun Waterman @WatermanReports
10 Apr 25

Defense IT contractors who can show an assured supply chain and secure coding practices will soon be eligable for fast track approval to have their products operate on @DeptofDefense networks, Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer told @AFCEANOVA. https://t.co/5tPf433sWW

Shaun Waterman
Shaun Waterman @WatermanReports
10 Apr 25

The DoD's 1st ever AI chief sez the U.S. military "is not well postured yet" to do test & evaluation on modern #software like #AI that needs constant updating. @CNASdc scholar @natsec_wallin, says user acceptance is a challenge. My story @ASForcesMag https://t.co/zoQJ1XyX4f

Shaun Waterman
Shaun Waterman @WatermanReports
10 Apr 25

Excited to be at the @AFCEANOVA Innovation IT day this morning with speakers incl @DeptofDefense Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer, @SpaceForceDoD Commercial Satcom chief Jared Reece and reps from the service software factories and innovation shops – fascinating line up! https://t.co/VwUncJhBux