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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, presides over the Indo-Pacific Command Change of Command, held at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, April 30, 2021. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase)

Pentagon leaders emphasize role of emerging technologies in battle

Emerging Tech

The U.S. Air Force’s 10th Wideband Global Satcom communications satellite (WGS-10) atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket lifts off on Friday, Mar. 15, 2019 from Space Launch Complex-37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Air Force brings Hack-a-Sat back for second year

Defense

Jeannette Evans-Morgis delivers remarks during the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space STEM Expo. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams)

Army planning open-architecture guidelines for contracts

Modernization

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Army looking for modernized enterprise data platform

Emerging Tech

Mr. David Spirk speaks to an audience during the USSOCOM Data Engineering Lab grand opening ceremony in Tampa, Fla., Sept. 25, 2019. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Barry Loo)

DOD’s data initiatives accelerating with new administration, CDO says

Modernization

Brett Goldstein, Neil Degrasse Tyson and Mike Brown receive a brief from an Airman at an MQ-9 Reaper display at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Sept. 12, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Haley Stevens)

DIU’s Mike Brown pushed ‘unethical’ contracting and hiring, former CFO alleges

Defense

Chief Navy Counselor John MacPherson, from Parish, N.Y., conducts virtual recruiter development boards, subscribing to a teleworking directive as COVID-19 preventative measures. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Diana Quinlan/Released)

DOD to allow personal phones to access ‘DOD365’ platform

Defense

Heidi Shyu, the assistant secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), toured a CERDEC lab along with CERDEC Director Henry Muller, CERDEC Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate Director John Willison, and CECOM Deputy Director Gary Martin to learn more about the center’s Hardware/Software Convergence initiative at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., June 16. CERDEC is modernizing and modularizing C4ISR and Electronic Warfare components so that there is a standard interface to better and more quickly facilitate the integration, compatibility and interoperability of new capabilities for the Army’s various platforms. (U.S. Army CERDEC photo by Kristen Kushiyama)

Former Army acquisition chief tapped to be DOD CTO

Modernization

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Martin Johnson, 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, marshals Capt. Thomas Graham, 4th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, to the flightline at Balad Air Base. Graham and Johnson are deployed from Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Joshua Garcia, Released)

Air Mobility Command works to modernize the flightline

Cyber