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Pentagon weapons tester wants to delay fielding of new Army tactical network tools January 15 1st. Lt. Michael Austin, platoon leader for Attack Co., 1-503rd Inf. Regt., 173rd Airborne Brigade, uses the Nett Warrior End User Device to report information to his company commander through the integrated tactical network (ITN) during a live-fire exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany, in 2018. The exercise helped inform ITN basis of issue and inform ITN design decisions. (Spc. Joshua Cofield/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense’s weapons tester recommended that the Army delay...

Navy CIO 2021 priorities: Don’t return to pre-COVID IT practices January 13 The Navy CIO doesn't want the service to fall back into pre-pandemic IT habits. (MC2 Kaila V. Peters/Navy) WASHINGTON — In 2020, the year marked by telework due to COVID-19, the U.S. Navy learned that it could move rapidly on IT projects. The service doubled its bandwidth in weeks. It built two new sites for its virtual private networks. It quadrupled its telework capacity. After the service did in weeks what Navy Chief Information Officer Aaron Weis said would normally take years, he wants to ensure that th...

Military intelligence agency wants to understand customers’ needs better The Defense Intelligence Agency chief information officer released a new customer-centric strategy. (sdecoret/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The chief information office of the Pentagon’s military intelligence arm has a new strategy to improve its understanding of customers’ needs. The Defense Intelligence Agency CIO four-year strategy aims to improve the relationship with its intelligence customers after stakeholders provided feedback that said the office didn’t understand their needs or what skills the office...

Reports had warned about supply chain hacks January 12 The SolarWinds breach shows the risk the U.S. Department of Defense faces from supply chain threats. (cybrain/Getty Images) WASHINGTON – Twice in the last four years, the national security community warned that hacks through IT suppliers posed grave threats to defense and intelligence agencies. Last month, those warnings proved prescient after suspected Russian hackers infiltrated federal agencies through a contractor’s software. While intelligence officials said Jan. 5 the hack is an espionage campaign, confirming Russia as the...

Defense Logistics Agency finds improvements through robotic process automation December 29, 2020 The use of bots at the Defense Logistics Agency has contributed 200,000 hours of work. (ipopba/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense’s logistics arm leads the federal government in deployment of robotic process automation tools, according to a new report from the federal RPA community of practice. In the last two years, the Defense Logistics Agency, the DoD’s combat logistics support agency, has deployed 96 robotic process automation automations, tools that automate...