Emil Michael, the Department of Defense’s under secretary of defense for research and engineering—its unofficial chief technology officer—has taken on the role of acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, Defense News
The Department of Defense announced on Tuesday the release of a guidebook that offers best practices for planning, implementing and evaluating a modular open systems approach, dubbed MOSA, and provides recommendations when
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Katie Arrington, former South Carolina state lawmaker and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been appointed to perform the duties of the Department of Defense’s chief information officer. In a LinkedIn post published
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has started canceling 585 non-mission-critical or duplicative contracts worth about $1.8 billion combined following a review of nearly 2,000 professional services contracts. VA said Monday the contract
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President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will make an additional $100 billion investment in its U.S. advanced chip manufacturing operations, bringing TSMC’s total American investments to approximately
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The Department of Defense has released a playbook designed to help software development managers, mission owners and developers improve the cybersecurity of applications hosted in cloud environments. The Cloud Security Playbook, cleared
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William “Mac” McHenry, senior adviser to the director at the Defense Innovation Unit, said rightsizing the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense requires a strategic approach. The first step in implementing
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The Federal Communications Commission has approved proposed rules that would update the competitive bidding rules for the AWS-3 spectrum bands as part of efforts to bring unused 5G-grade spectrum to the marketplace.
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The Government Accountability Office has called on the secretary of the Navy to develop a ship industrial base strategy that aligns with the National Defense Industrial Strategy. In a report published Thursday, GAO made
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President Donald Trump has released an executive order directing agency heads to work with Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, team leads to develop a centralized technological system to record payments issued
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Pete Hegseth, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2025 Wash100 awardee, has issued a draft memo directing DOD to adopt the Software Acquisition Pathway, or SWP, to speed up software
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