Shaun Waterman
Reporter, Editor and Content Strategist at Freelance
Reporter on cyber & emerging tech threats. Fmr BBC, one-time Newsweek, always a Unipresser, ex-POLITICO. I'm the daddy now. Likes etc ≠ approval. DM for Signal.
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1 week ago |
airandspaceforces.com | Shaun Waterman
The Department of Defense is pushing ahead with a plan to automate and streamline the system it uses to ensure that software running on military networks is secure, and will start implementation next month, acting Chief Information Officer Katie Arrington said May 7. Arrington signed a memo two weeks ago “directing the development of a Software Fast-Track , or SWFT, Initiative” to speed up the process by which the Department of Defense certifies software to run on its networks.
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1 week ago |
airandspaceforces.com | Shaun Waterman
The Air Force and other military services are deploying artificial intelligence tools in their IT networks and Security Operations Centers where personnel monitor cyber threats, officials said May 6—but they are leveraging the emerging technology cautiously even as some say it is the very nature of warfare. Col John W. Picklesimer, commander of the 67th Cyberspace Wing, said AI is more than just a buzzword.
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1 week ago |
airandspaceforces.com | Shaun Waterman
The launch last month of Orbital Watch, the new Space Force program to share declassified U.S. government threat intelligence with private sector satellite operators and other commercial space companies, comes amid increasing concern about Chinese and Russian development of anti-satellite weapons. Officials said the program will eventually become a sort of Neighborhood Watch for space—a clearing and distribution house for orbital threat data from both the government and private sector.
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1 week ago |
airandspaceforces.com | Shaun Waterman
Editor’s Note: This is the final episode in a three-part series exploring the opportunities and challenges facing the Trump administration’s changes to how the Pentagon buys software. Part 1 is available here, and Part 2 is available here.
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2 weeks ago |
airandspaceforces.com | Shaun Waterman
There are many use cases for different kinds of artificial intelligence in the Space Force, but the service is moving cautiously towards adoption, hampered in part by a disconnect with vendors, officials said May 1. At the ACFEA Northern Virginia chapter’s Space Force IT Day in suburban Virginia, Lt. Col. Jose Almanzar had a blunt answer when asked how the unit he commands, the 19th Space Defense Squadron, is using AI. “To make a long story short, we’re not,” he said.
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ICYMI: The most important of my 3-part series on the DoD's #Software Acquisition Pathway for @ASForcesMag was the 3rd. It looked at concerns that, in its rush to embrace software innovation, @DeptofDefense might open the door to waste, fraud and abuse. https://t.co/Ko1sW5oeLC
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