• Pentagon aims to accelerate acquisition of new tech through software-contracting change

    Pentagon aims to accelerate acquisition of new tech through software-contracting change
    The Pentagon must default to rapid acquisition processes when buying software, from business systems to weapons components, the defense secretary said in a Thursday memo. The move is a “big deal,” one expert told Defense One, because it will push the Defense Department to stop spending considerable money and time trying to build its own software and instead go to the marketplace for products that might already exist. “While the commercial industry has rapidly adjusted to a
  • This AI startup wants to give federal workers a taste of the intel community

    This AI startup wants to give federal workers a taste of the intel community
    Tech-curious federal workers can now test drive the geodata search engine created by AI-startup Danti already used by some defense and intelligence agencies.  The cloud-based platform, which can be retooled for various classification levels, is already used by the Space Force’s data analytics effort, called the Tactical Surveillance Reconnaissance and Tracking, or TacSRT, program, as well as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrat

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