Department of Defense

Over budget and under-performing: Department of Defense IT challenges in the spotlight

Costs soar across the DOD as "budget constraints remain a challenge" and agile processes struggle to take root

DARPA

DARPA selects four private partners for algorithmic analysis of "mass casualty" events

DARPA has announced private partners for its ITM programme that will deploy trustworthy AI to save lives in mass casualty events.

Cybersecurity

Pentagon CIOs slapped over cloud security by auditors days before 3TB of emails exposed

Days before the exposure this week of over three terabytes of military emails owing to misconfigured Azure services, the US Department of Defense (DoD)’s Inspector General had warned Pentagon CIOs that their teams were not properly reviewing documentation designed to ensure military cloud security – and running systems with unmitigated

Cybersecurity

Pentagon admits hackers “roam freely” in its IT systems, eyes Zero Trust

"Previous deployments of application and server stacks have had issues..."