Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber News and Analysis

The latest defense networks & cyber news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

Fewer Threats, More Bandwidth: DISA Awards $199M For Cloud Browsing Leaving the browser and its history in a virtual environment spread across any number of servers makes it harder for adversaries to target the military's actual computers or tablets.

New ACC Head Kelly Wants AI ASAP To Sift Data, Speed Targeting "We absorb more data that we can process, that's just a non-negotiable fact," says Gen. Mark Kelly.

Tankers, Transports Need Real-Time Threat Data To Survive: AMC As Air Mobility Command looks to connect its aircraft to high-speed battle networks like ABMS, it is still struggling to get its KC-46 tankers working properly.

Kill Chain In The Sky With Data: Army's Project Convergence Over the southwest desert, drones large and small are autonomously avoiding anti-aircraft threats while feeding real-time targeting data over an AI network to troops on the ground.

Navy's New Unmanned Fleet Likely To Hunt Chinese & Russian Subs Tracking and harassing submarines will likely be a key job for the new generation of networked, unmanned ships.

JAIC Wants AI 'Victory Gardens' Across DoD Instead of the Joint AI Center building everything in-house, the JAIC is creating technical and contracting tools to help any Defense Department organization launch its own AI projects.

Ligado Exemplifies Broken US Spectrum Management: Industry Experts "There's a lot of inefficiencies in the process. But it's basically a fight, with each community pressing its case to its own regulatory body," says Jennifer Warren, Lockheed Martin's vice president for technology, policy and regulation.

Many Government Employees Are Now Working From Home [Sponsored] Poly enables them to have as much impact from their kitchen table as from their desks in the office.

Target Gone In 20 Seconds: Army Sensor-Shooter Test This fall's first Project Convergence exercise aims to feed targeting data from satellites to artillery so fast that gunners can unleash precision fire in much less than a minute. And that's just the start.

NSA Prepares Unclassified Threat Reports — From Home "In small ways we're redefining who we are as an agency," said Wendy Noble, executive director of the NSA.

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