Cybersecurity, Privacy, & AI
DoD Planning to Address Compute ‘Bottleneck’ That Could Hinder AI Proliferation
DefenseScoop - The Pentagon is preparing to take additional steps to address a major bottleneck that could limit the military’s ability to proliferate artificial...
Pentagon Eyes 3-Year Cyber Training Requirement, Overriding New Army Policy
DefenseScoop - The Pentagon plans to require service members to complete cybersecurity training once every three years, a move that will scrap an annual...
Pentagon Leaders Love Agentic AI. But It’s Giving Cyber Criminals Nation-State-Like Powers
Defense One - Pentagon leaders say workers are using new agentic AI tools to compress weeks of work into hours. But the same tools...
Pentagon Workers Vibe-Code 100,000 AI ‘Agents’ to Use on Unclassified Networks
Breaking Defense - Military personnel and Defense Department civilians have used a version of Google Gemini’s Agent Designer to create over 100,000 semi-autonomous AI...
DoD Components Face ‘Aggressive’ Timeline for Maven Smart System Transition
DefenseScoop - Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg’s March 9 memorandum sets an ambitious deadline for Pentagon and military leaders to transition the Maven Smart...
War Department’s DIB Cybersecurity Program Seeking New Industry Partners to Strengthen Defense Supply Chain Security
ExecutiveGov - The Department of War’s Cyber Crime Center, or DC3, is expanding its Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Program to enhance protection of critical...
Pentagon to Designate Palantir Maven AI as Program of Record
GovCon Wire - The Department of War has issued a letter stating that Palantir’s artificial intelligence platform, Maven Smart System, will become an official...
DoD Cyber Crime Center Official Warns Industry About AI-Boosted Cyberattack ‘Kill Chain’
DefenseScoop - A senior Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center official is seeing the quantity and sophistication of digital attacks increase, a trend that...
DoD ‘Confident’ It Can Replace Anthropic’s Claude Within Six Months, but Some Warn Transition Won’t Be Easy
Federal News Network - Emil Michael, the Defense Department’s under secretary for research and engineering and chief technology officer, said he is “pretty confident”...
DoD to Evaluate “External” CMMC Risks
Federal News Network - The Government Accountability Office is recommending the Defense Department do a better job managing a range of “external factors” that...
Pentagon, IC Want Industry to Provide an ‘Evaluation Harness’ to Standardize Testing of AI Systems
DefenseScoop - The Defense Department and Intelligence Community are on the hunt for an “evaluation harness” to test vendors’ AI technologies for government use....
War Department Issues Cyber Developmental Test & Evaluation Manual
ExecutveGov - The Department of War has released DOW Manual 5000.103, establishing policy and procedures for cyber developmental test and evaluation, or cyber DT&E, across...
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