The new group, created by the fiscal 2019 defense authorization bill, will review the ethical considerations of using AI for defense purposes.

The White House urges against closing DISA, as the 2019 House NDAA proposes, but it supports the bill's push for increased oversight on DOD's JEDI cloud procurement.

The committee is calling on the DOD to take a deeper look at how it can leverage emerging technologies in next year’s authorization bill.

If the Pentagon wants to fund its $10 billion commercial cloud acquisition, it has some questions to answer about the contract's single award.

The legislation also calls to limit department senior executive service CIO roles to just five starting in 2021.

The so-called “Amazon for government” plan included calls for a system to allow federal agencies to purchase directly from e-commerce retailers.