AI and machine learning are supercharging the Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to protect Americans from dangerous narcotics. From improving crime scene reconstruction and determining the origin of drug precursors, AI is helping
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a 2025 Wash100 Award winner, has issued new guidance aimed at unifying its arms transfer and security cooperation enterprise to improve efficiency, strengthen burden-sharing with allies and partners,
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The Department of Defense began the phased rollout of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, or CMMC, program today, Nov. 10, marking the end of its voluntary phase, MeriTalk reported Thursday. The CMMC program
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The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking commercial proposals to develop adaptive, high-volume production technologies for space systems to address constraints in the U.S. supply chain. According to a commercial solutions opening, DIU
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The Department of Defense has released a “revised” strategy to strengthen U.S. Cyber Command’s workforce and operational readiness, introducing new organizations focused on talent management, advanced training and innovation, Breaking Defense reported
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U.S. Space Operations Command, or SpOC, has been redesignated as U.S. Space Force Combat Forces Command, aligning the organization’s name with its mission to develop combat-ready space forces for the U.S. and
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The U.S. Army is testing artificial intelligence-aided target recognition as part of its Next Generation Command and Control, or NGC2, prototype, a move aimed at speeding up decision-making and fire missions on
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The Department of the Treasury has launched a department-wide audit of contracting activity valued at approximately $9 billion, focusing on potential misuse of the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program and
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 11 quantum computing companies to advance to the next phase of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, a long-term program designed to determine whether any quantum
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Purdue University and BWX Technologies have formed a strategic collaboration to accelerate research and workforce development focused on next-generation nuclear manufacturing, including small modular reactors—a.k.a. SMRs—and microreactors. The partnership was formalized on
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