The Senate on Thursday confirmed Katherine Sutton, a cyber policy and technology expert, as the assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy. The upper chamber voted 51-47 to confirm Sutton and other
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The National Institute of Science and Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, or NCCoE, is soliciting public comments on a draft white paper that seeks to guide organizations in preparing for post-quantum
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George “Wes” Street, a 30-year veteran of the counterintelligence community, has been confirmed as director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center. Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, welcomed him after the U.S. Senate
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The State Department has released the America First Global Health Strategy, a framework aimed at strengthening U.S. leadership in global health while prioritizing American safety, economic resilience and international partnerships. The strategy
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President Donald J. Trump has signed a deal with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer to collaborate on efforts to advance artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy technologies. Michael Kratsios, director
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The U.S. Marine Corps has selected first-person-view, or FPV, platforms from Auterion, ModalAI, Neros and Nokturnal to move to the next stage of the Defense Innovation Unit’s Project G.I. The proposed solutions
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The Naval Research Laboratory has collaborated with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Northrop Grumman‘s SpaceLogistics to demonstrate a robotic spacecraft developed to service and extend the life of space-based satellites. Thermal Vacuum
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Four U.S. senators have proposed a bipartisan bill that seeks to address price gouging by defense contractors and improve transparency in maintenance contracts. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., introduced
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Savannah River National Laboratory has named Dana Hewit as its deputy laboratory director for operations. Hewit, who previously led the Office of Integrated Performance Management at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will officially
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The Federal Aviation Administration and MITRE have unveiled a benchmark to facilitate the assessment of large language models, or LLMs, for aerospace tasks. ALUE Benchmark MITRE said Wednesday the Aerospace Language Understanding
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