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The Defense Department’s chief information officer will kick off a new program this week that aims to overhaul cumbersome bureaucratic mechanisms and streamline its ability to rapidly approve new software capabilities for warfighters.
Under the Software Fast Track (SWIFT) program, the Pentagon will use artificial intelligence to replace legacy authority to operate (ATO) and Risk Management Framework (RMF) processes when buying new software. Acting DOD CIO Katie Arrington signed a memo authorizing the new effort, and it will officially launch May 1, she said.

The U.S. military services face no shortage of challenges in adopting artificial intelligence to drive better mission outcomes — and one of the biggest things holding them back is that their personnel really don’t understand what AI is and what it can do for them, a panel of senior officials said Tuesday.
“It’s not that people are afraid of the technology — they just don’t understand how the technology can work for them,” Colin Crosby, data leader for the U.S. Marine Corps, said at the UiPath on Tour Public Sector event, produced by FedScoop.

The Marine Corps will add new capabilities to its fleet of MQ-9 Reaper drones later this year, including a smart sensor system, according to an official leading the effort.
The service is pursuing technologies for its Marine Air-Ground Task Force unmanned expeditionary (MUX) family of systems, including medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) drones.
Among the in-the-works tools are airborne network extension capabilities, electronic warfare pod, maritime domain awareness pod, detect-and-avoid system, proliferated low-Earth orbit command and control, and smart sensors, according to Lt. Col.

Today marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s second presidential administration. We asked five foreign policy and national security experts: What has surprised you most about Trump’s first 100 days? Read more below. Kori Schake Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies American Enterprise Institute The biggest surprise of Trump’s second term is the administration’s over-estimation of American power. They seem not to realize that other states and actors have moves available to them other than capitulation to U.S.

The UK is looking to improve its defence storage capacity to drive efficiencies and secure against supply chain threats.

In the military, rank-and-file service members have a portion of their pay withheld to cover the cost of meals at on-base dining facilities. The thinking, presumably, is that it streamlines the process of feeding troops: you pay in, you get to eat. But like so many things in the nation’s biggest bureaucracy, an error or mix-up on something small can gum up the works on much bigger things.

On January 19, 2017, the U.S. Army announced SIG Sauer’s P320 variant as the winner of the Modular Handgun System trials. The full-size and compact variants were adopted as the M17 and M18, respectively, by the Army. In 2019, the Marine Corps ordered the M18 and began equipping Marines across the fleet with the new pistol. On February 14, 2023, an incident occurred aboard Camp Foster, Okinawa, involving a Marine-issued M18.
The Marines adopted the M18 as their standard issue sidearm (U.S.

Rheinmetall has enhanced its maintenance operations for defence vehicles in both the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia.

The US Army has engaged Near Earth Autonomy to spearhead a programme to advance and deploy an optionally piloted system.

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The House and Senate Armed Services Committees want to pour billions into shipbuilding — including $1.8 billion for eight landing ships medium and $4.