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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a press gaggle with media members after meeting with troops and U.S. Border Patrol agents to assess the operational control of the U.S.-Mexico border, El Paso, Texas, Feb. 3, 2025. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza)

Hegseth hints at program cuts during talk with troops

The Pentagon chief said he's prepared to "take a lot of arrows" for being disruptive.
Feb 7, 2025 By Jon Harper
Michael Bloomberg, Defense Innovation Board chair walks to meetings for the DIB in the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2022. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders)

Tech and talent are the keys to defense modernization

"In many cases, the capabilities that the department needs already exist. The difficulty lies in adopting and scaling them," Michael Bloomberg, chair of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation…
Jul 25, 2024 By Michael Bloomberg
Principal Deputy DoD CIO Ms. Leslie Beavers & team traveled to Spangdahlem Air Base and was hosted by COL Ryan Ley, 52d Fighter Wing Dep CDR, where they viewed technologies being trialed that showed functional proof of concepts for Zero Trust on Operational Technology. Source: @DoD_CIO Twitter

What DOD’s new Fulcrum IT strategy means for warfighters

In an exclusive interview, Principal Deputy CIO Leslie Beavers detailed the new plan — and revealed where the department will go from here.
Jun 25, 2024 By Brandi Vincent
WASHINGTON, D.C. – APRIL 19, 2018: A stone version of the Great Seal of the United States embellishes the exterior of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Lawmakers launching new Defense Modernization Caucus

The bipartisan caucus will be focused on championing policy and funding priorities.
Mar 21, 2024 By Brandi Vincent
TOPSHOT - A TV crew films the damages on the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald at its mother port in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo on June 18, 2017. A number of missing American sailors have been found dead in flooded areas of a destroyer that collided with a container ship off Japan's coast, the US Navy said on June 18, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Kazuhiro NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)
TOPSHOT – A TV crew films the damages on the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald at its mother port in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo on June 18, 2017. A number of missing American sailors have been found dead in flooded areas of a destroyer that collided with a container ship off Japan’s coast, the US Navy said on June 18, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Kazuhiro NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)

In wake of fatal collisions, Navy accelerates software-defined radar deployments on surface ships

The Navy is replacing aging and legacy navigation radars across its surface combatant fleet with a software-configurable technology called Next Generation Surface Search Radar (NGSSR).
Apr 18, 2023 By Brandi Vincent
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Recovering DOD innovators

Brian Beachkofski, former commander of the Air Force's Kessel Run; Brian Masters, former director of cloud and AI enablement for Army's XVIII Airborne Corps; Meagan Metzger, CEO…
Oct 12, 2022 By DefenseScoop Staff
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