Army Col. Richard Leach, director of intelligence at the Defense Information Systems Agency, said that artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies present advantages and threats to cybersecurity. Speaking at the Digital Protection Summit on Thursday, Leach said the growth of remote work during the global pandemic provided hackers with a new opportunity to access an […]
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., has raised potential areas for artificial intelligence legislation to further regulate the technology’s adoption. Speaking at the recent Federal News Network’s AI and Data Exchange webinar, Warner described President Joe Biden’s AI executive order as broad and needs further legislation like the proposed Federal AI Risk Management Act of 2023 that […]
The Missile Defense Agency has completed the first Knowledge Point review of Lockheed Martin’s progress on the Next Generation Interceptor program, part of a ground-based missile defense network designed to protect the United States against long-range missile threats. According to Lockheed, KP1 was accomplished ahead of schedule in November following the program’s All Up Round […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate evaluated counter-unmanned aerial system technologies during two live demonstrations held in the summer of 2023. The first demonstration, held in July at Camp Grafton South in North Dakota, focused on drones that can be taken down using kinetic mitigation systems, which include lasers, projectiles, nets and […]
Frank Calvelli, assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration, said that the U.S. Space Force is looking at automation and expanding into other orbits as a way to address threats associated with using ground stations. Speaking at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Calvelli said he […]
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Astronautics Corporation of America a Phase 1 cybersecurity research contract to better understand the scope of aviation-related data and the underlying architectures that support the transmission and use of data. The contract will see Astronautics’s avionics cybersecurity assurance group working on identifying, categorizing and characterizing the data and data […]
Task Force Lima, a new unit handling the Department of Defense generative artificial intelligence adoption, is finalizing the release of a digital testbed for defense community trials and experiments on various AI solutions. U.S. Navy Capt. Manuel Xavier Lugo, the task force commander, said during a recent Chief Digital and AI Office event that the […]
Craig Martell, the Department of Defense’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, has emphasized that industry partnerships are crucial to acquiring high-quality data amid ongoing efforts to adopt automated solutions. The DOD’s data, analytics and AI adoption strategy places high-quality data, which Martell defines as “discoverable, accessible and available,” at the foundation of the department’s […]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is seeking feedback on how open-weight artificial intelligence models affect the U.S. economy, national securities and communities. According to the NTIA, open-weight AI models allow developers to build on existing work, therefore broadening AI tools’ capabilities and availability to smaller organizations and individuals. Through its request for comments, the […]
The Federal Trade Commission is soliciting public comments on its new proposed rules to protect consumers from malicious artificial intelligence-generated government and business impersonation tactics. The new proposals would add protections to the consumer safeguards that the FTC earlier lined up in its notice of proposed rulemaking issued in October 2022. The proposed rules for […]
