General Dynamics [GD] Information Technology (GDIT) will look to increasingly leverage Silicon Valley and smaller companies’ innovations in new technology areas, specifically automation, as government customers face tighter research and development budgets, company officials said Tuesday. GDIT†...

The Pentagon’s new artificial intelligence center has delivered its first product, a predictive maintenance tool for UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, the department’s chief information officer (CIO) said Tuesday. DoD CIO Dana Deasy told attendees at a General Dynamics [GD] Information Technology ...

Despite some additional detail about cyber hacking by Russia during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, there were no surprises in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report last week given what was already uncovered by the intelligence community, the top cyber security official at the Department ...

The Air Force has selected five companies to jointly develop capability upgrades for U.S. Cyber Command’s (CYBERCOM) new joint warfighting platform, a service spokesperson told Defense Daily, adding the new capability has reached its first milestone to offer 10 new tools for cyber units. Maj. ...

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has received a two-year, $24 million deal to deliver cyber enterprise capabilities for the new joint warfighting platform its currently building for U.S. Cyber Command, the company announced Thursday. The Air Force, working as the acquisition lead, selected Northrop Grumman ...

The Department of Defense has determined Amazon [AMZN] Web Services and Microsoft [MSFT] are the two vendors capable of meeting the minimum requirements for the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing program, with a contract award now expected in mid-July, a Pentagon ...