The Defense Department wants to explore Large Language Models for everything from paperwork to war plans – without being misled by hallucinations or having sensitive information sucked up by commercial LLMs hungry for training data.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Modernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s five-year plan includes the ambitious goal to build a global network “unconstrained by bandwidth [and] impervious to denial” by hostile forces.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. “It’s great to have internet day to day in peacetime,” said Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, “but it’s more imperative to have it when bullets are flying.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
By Breaking Defense
“Right now we’re going through dealing with some of the security challenges,” Steve Wallace told Breaking Defense. “So I’m hoping the first half of this calendar year. The sooner … the better.”
By Jaspreet Gill
Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Sherman set the tone early in the year by telling Breaking Defense a major focus over 2023 would be aiming for baseline, targeted zero trust within four years.
By Jaspreet Gill
“What this does today … is that it provides the ability to bring a number of different information feeds, a number of different data sources together in one picture,” Kevin Laughlin, deputy director for the program executive office for spectrum, told reporters.
By Jaspreet Gill
AI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
While DoD is seeing adoption of AI across the department, Steven Wallace added that DISA is trying to better understand the ethical use of the technology.
By Jaspreet Gill
DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner also provided an update on the Pentagon’s sprawling cloud effort, saying 13 task orders have gone out, totaling some $200 million.
By Jaspreet Gill
In March, DISA announced Booz had produced a prototype of Thunderdome and laid “a zero-trust technology foundation.”
By Jaspreet Gill
Updating policy related to identity, credentialing and access management, or ICAM, will be a key step when integrating partners into CJADC2, according to a DISA official.
By Jaspreet Gill
“Workforce 2025 is, at its heart, a strategy designed to enhance the skills and talents of current employees while ensuring DISA onboards new talent and invests in the professional development of both throughout their careers,” DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner said.
By Jaspreet Gill
“We decided to go with J codes for the fact of better aligning with our combatant commands, better aligning with the Joint Staff, and as a Combat Support Agency, it just makes sense,” Lt. Gen. Skinner said.
By Jaspreet Gill
In a sign of how ubiquitous AI has become recently, DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner began his keynote not speaking himself, but with a generative AI that cloned his voice and delivered the start of his remarks.
By Jaspreet Gill
