Pete Hegseth, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2025 Wash100 awardee, has issued a memorandum directing the secretary of the Army to establish the Joint Interagency Task Force 401, or
The Department of the Air Force concluded the first experiment under the Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming, or DASH, initiative, providing warfighters and software developers with an opportunity to develop prototypes
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The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council has issued new model deviation text as part of the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul, or RFO, initiative in compliance with an executive order and an Office of Management
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Kirk Lawrence, program manager for the Secure by Design initiative at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said implementing Secure by Design principles is the first step in building a threat-resilient digital
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The Catalyst Accelerator has started soliciting applications from U.S. small businesses and startups with dual-use directed energy and electromagnetic warfare technologies for the Fall 2025 Cohort. The accelerator said Friday it is
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The Senate on Thursday voted 53-44 to confirm Billy Long, former congressman from Missouri, as head of the Internal Revenue Service. Politico reported that Long’s confirmation comes amid massive layoffs at the
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The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday passed a bill that would appropriate $831.5 billion in defense funding for fiscal year 2026. Defense Procurement The FY 2026 defense appropriations bill, which was introduced
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Greg Avicola, a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office, said he envisions a Navy strike force built of a “heterogeneous” mix of robotic platforms, Defense One
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MITRE has highlighted the importance of investment and public-private partnerships in research and development to promote invention and drive innovation in the field of artificial intelligence. The nonprofit company said Wednesday the
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The U.S. Army is accelerating the deployment of small uncrewed aircraft systems, or SUAS, to Transformation in Contact, or TiC, brigades as part of the Short-Range Reconnaissance, or SRR, program. Col. Danielle
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Defense One reported Tuesday that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the U.S. intelligence community should shift from building its own technology to depending more on industry for tools that could support its missions.
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