If confirmed, John Phelan — a businessman and co-founder of MSD Capital — would take the helm of the department as it pursues new drones and a hybrid fleet of manned and unmanned systems, among other modernization efforts.
More than 5,000 military personnel from across roughly 35 nations and international groups are embarking on a 12-day, U.S.-led event.
Joy Angela Shanaberger said she wants to scale up Centcom’s innovation efforts.
The Pentagon is adapting to the expanding integration of information systems with operational technologies that control physical assets.
The latest Digital Talon exercise, conducting earlier this month in the Middle East region, included a variety of robotic capabilities that could play a significant role in future conflicts.
Moore said in an email that while she’s sad to leave her team at U.S. Central Command, she’s looking forward to gaining more experience in uniform.
The forthcoming push is part of Adm. Lisa Franchetti’s “CNO Navigation Plan.”
“Some academics, military leaders and politicians believe that establishing a U.S. Cyber Force will address challenges faced by the DOD cyberspace operations community. We disagree,” Alan Brian Long Jr. and Maj. Alexander Pytlar write in this Op-Ed for DefenseScoop.
Most Inspiring Up-and-Comer Schuyler Moore, the chief technology officer for U.S. Central Command, is perhaps an up-and-comer only in that she’s still relatively early on in her career. But in the less than a decade since she graduated from Harvard with her bachelor’s degree in political science, she’s gone on to quickly rise through the […]
Innovation of the Year Task Force 59, launched in 2021, is the U.S. Navy’s first dedicated unit for unmanned systems and artificial intelligence. Operating in the Middle East, it focuses on integrating these technologies into everyday missions. This “digital fleet” includes drones and other uncrewed vehicles working alongside crewed ships. AI helps analyze sensor data, […]
