‘Don’t bid on JEDI,’ employees tell Microsoft

In this second iteration, sponsored by BAE Systems, the tech bootcamp program will be accepting companies with "commercially viable" anti-drone technologies like sensors and computer vision to "identify" and "mitigate" unmanned systems.

A new guide aims to help leadership distinguish between substance and hype.

A new joint letter reinforces "both departments’ commitment to ensuring the successful transition from a legacy patient-data system to a modernized one that will continue to support active-duty service members, Veterans and their families."

"At the end of the day, it’s people that are going to make us successful," Brig. Gen. Richard Angle says. One avenue is direct hire authority.

The Pentagon's No. 2 called on the defense community to support the brand-new command as it works to modernize the military's approach to great-power competition.

The company is the second to file a pre-award protest against the $10 billion contract solicitation.

The report lays the blame on "nascent understanding" of cybersecurity by key officials and says the Pentagon has only recently set its priorities to meet the challenge.

The tech giant removed itself from competition for the DoD’s hotly contested cloud contract, citing ethical concerns about the use of artificial intelligence.

The team will be built around seven "core team" companies: Leidos, Guidehouse, Accenture, Henry Schein Inc., AbleVets LLC, MicroHealth and ProSource360.

Agency officials offered details on the $152.2 million in contracts they recently awarded as part of a new research & development pilot program.

Ethical hackers uncovered more than 150 vulnerabilities, netting more than $151,000 in awards during the two-week cyber challenge.

A tsunami of data is driving the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's embrace not only of AI, but also its pursuit of more data scientists.

CSRA, now a subsidiary of General Dynamics IT, will provide commercial cloud capabilities from multiple services providers, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, to the Navy at Impact Levels 2, 4 and 5.

AT&T won the first of the two awards worth $87.4 million through an other transaction agreement (OTA). Microsoft received the second, another OTA worth $34.4 million.

The DOD announced Tuesday the selection of a bilateral team of researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom for the Bilateral Academic Research Initiative.

The service sponsored HACKtheMACHINE this past weekend in Seattle to gather the best and brightest in tech to take a look at some of the Navy's biggest digital challenges.

Michael Brown will assume the role that Raj Shah left in February.

AFWERX is running a challenge to get ideas that will shape the second iteration of Pilot Training Next, an initiative designed to help the service train new aviators faster but with the same quality.

Officials said they created a new council to find new acquisition methods for IT modernization, supply chain operations and cost efficiencies.

When agencies buy commercial capabilities, Bezos said, they "keep improving kind of ‘auto-magically’ without any effort."

It's unclear how the proposed network would interact with and complement existing programs.

"We're in a new world, and security is the standard, it's the expectation, it's not something that's above and beyond what we've done before," Patrick Shanahan said.

NGEN-R is set to be one of the largest federal IT contracts in 2018.

“In the past situations, what we’ve seen historically is that when everyone is responsible, no one is responsible," said GAO's Carol Harris. "I think that’s what has led us to where we are today."

Futures Command leaders addressed concerns from lawmakers in a hearing Thursday.

The goal is to get the technology into its "third wave," where it begins to adapt to changing situations more in the way human intelligence does.

According to Dana Deasy, the Pentagon's common access card isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Intelligence leaders want analysts to see AI as a "powerful sidecar," but its adoption is not without its hurdles.

The Pentagon has extended the deadline for proposals for its $10 billion JEDI commercial cloud acquisition by about three weeks.

DISA wants a contractor to help it save time and money moving agencies to milCloud2.0.

The secretary of Veterans Affairs said “from here on out, DOD and VA will be joined from the hip" on EHR implementation.

DOD Mobility Portfolio Manager Jake Marcellus talks to FedScoop about DISA's expansion of its unclassified mobile service offerings.

Gen. John Murray will lead Army Futures Command after receiving a fourth star. It's the latest move by the military to grow its presence in the Texas capital.

Dana Deasy said the Pentagon is embarking on the third wave of AI, when "computers will no longer be seen as tools but instead as a partner."

The five-year education partnership agreement will "enable CMU students and employees to enjoy access to state-of-the-art facilities and equipment—and new innovative, technological methods."

The Department of Defense’s key agency for combating weapons of mass destruction obtained a series of core IT services in the potential five-year contract.

Michael Conlin stepped into the role this summer.

Leidos secured a bridge contract to provide Air Force and DOD installations in the National Capital Region with IT and telecommunications services.

The Hack the Marine Corps program launched Aug. 12 with a live hacking event in Las Vegas.

Working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, DISA issued a request for information asking for industry feedback on the types of metrics federal agencies should include in commercial cloud SLAs.

For the past year the team has been building two internal tech products — Assembly and Hunting Party.

The new chief of staff encouraged personnel to “come armed” with ideas on how to improve DISA’s relationship with its mission partners.

The Enterprise Storage Solutions (ESS) III is a $639 million follow-on contract for "on-demand storage capabilities" across the Defense Department.

"Though DIU will continue to experiment with new ways of delivering capability to the warfighter, the organization itself is no longer an experiment," said the deputy secretary of Defense.

Experiments at up to 20 of 187 bases globally will "leverage commercially owned and operated IT services at those bases to learn and adjust before transitioning to the rest of the AF starting in 2020."

BAE Systems will be tasked with developing tools that identify and fight off threats on networks that are too big and complex to defend using traditional cybersecurity tools.

DOD's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud acquisition "virtually assures DOD will be locked into legacy cloud for a decade or more," the company argues.

"These geolocation capabilities can expose personal information, locations, routines, and numbers of DoD personnel, and potentially create unintended security consequences and increased risk to the joint force and mission," says the new guidance.

"I think probably the most important thing you can expect from the Army is a clear-eyed and sober dialogue with you and in collaboration on the 'how,'" Bruce Crawford said.

“We’re watching closely JEDI and what the DOD is doing there,” Adm. Karl Schultz said.

The cost for the service is now $4.31 per device, per month, down from $7.54.

A trio of software and technology companies will supply the Department of Defense with cybersecurity and data protection solutions through 2023.

The Department of Defense is looking to refresh its high-performance computing capabilities in a new $240 million contract.

The company will be helping the DOD deal with the "unprecedented amounts" of reconnaissance data that exist in our modern world.

The Army issued a request for information in search of potential cybersecurity, risk management and cybersecurity system engineering services in the cloud.

The agency added another $1.1 billion to its ongoing $4.3 billion contract.

After months of delays and contentious debate among industry, DOD issued the final request for proposals Thursday for its JEDI contract.

Mahlock was the first African-American woman nominated to serve as a brigadier general in the Marine Corps, and now she's the Corps' first female CIO.

DOD has been working to bring trust certificates and encryption across its public domains up to speed with industry standards for the past two to three years, Deasy wrote in a July 20 letter.

“We are unwaveringly in support of our law enforcement, defense and intelligence community," Teresa Carlson said.