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The Pentagon’s plan for re-competing its maturing and widely used enterprise data and analytics platform — Advana — is designed around funding up to $15 billion in contracts to a diverse range of companies over the next 10 years, Chief Digital and AI Officer Radha Plumb announced on Wednesday at an industry day in Virginia.
There’s still much to unravel and resolve, however, around how the overarching acquisition process will pan out and the number of vendors that might be involved, three senior CDAO officials told DefenseScoop during the event.

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — As part of sweeping changes to its overall cyber enterprise to better posture itself against a China threat, the Air Force is elevating the role of warfighter communications.
Officials have teased in the past the split of the intelligence and cyber directorate on the Air Staff at the Pentagon — known as the A2/6 with “2” being intelligence and “6” traditionally referring to cyber, IT and communications.

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An Army colonel fired in October as the garrison commander for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, was found not guilty of drunk driving and disorderly charges that prompted his relief of command.
A federal jury acquitted Army Col. Anthony Bianchi of the two more serious charges he faced after being arrested last July for driving through West Point’s Thayer Gate without stopping for military police.The jury found him guilty of running a stop sign, one of his attorneys told Task & Purpose on Wednesday.

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Space Force’s acquisition arm is working to ensure there is “no loss of capability” in its space-based missile warning and missile-tracking program following the removal of RTX subsidiary Raytheon from the effort earlier this year, according to the program’s executive officer.
Space Systems Command (SSC) dropped Raytheon from the Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking — MEO (MEO MW/MT) program in May due to significant cost growth, slips in launch schedule and unresolved design challenges experienced by the company.

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A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken revealed that Iran has sent close range ballistic missiles to Russia, prompting expanded sanctions on the country. Blinken said that he expects the missiles to be used against Ukrainian forces within weeks.

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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti on Wednesday laid out a new initiative called Project 33 that includes a goal of scaling robotic and autonomous systems across the fleet by 2027 so that the sea service will be ready for a potential war against China.
The forthcoming push is part of her “CNO Navigation Plan,” which acknowledges that officials “cannot manifest a bigger traditional Navy in a few short years.”
“The Chairman of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has told his forces to be ready for war by 2027 — we will be more ready,” Franchetti wrote.

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