WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s top IT official provided an update July 30 on a wide range of ongoing initiatives underway at the department as it continues to grapple with a remote workforce amid the coronavirus pandemic. Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy highlighted several ongoing projects related to artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing, while also discussing the department’s Commercial Virtual Remote Environment that’s allowed nearly 1 million Department of Defense employees to collaborate while working from home. Here’s a roundup of what Deasy told reporters: Cloud developments The Defense Department has struggled for more than a year to procure its […]
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A high level delegation from the Pentagon visited the offices of the Federal Communications Commission Friday to make an in-person, classified case for why the Defense Department believes the commission’s approval of Ligado Networks spectrum plan will cause major harm to the Global Positioning System, C4ISRNET has learned. The delegation was led by Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist, the department’s number two official. He was joined by chief information officer Dana Deasy, as well as Lt. Gen. Brad Shwedo, the Joint Staff’s head of C4 and cyber, and Lt. Gen. David Thompson, vice commander of U.S. Space Force, plus technical […]
Unlike a May 6 public hearing from the Senate Armed Services Committee, this briefing will feature representatives from the FCC. Source link
Several groups want the National Academy of Sciences to review testing data at the heart of the question on whether Ligado’s planned use for spectrum will interfere with GPS. Source link