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January 16, 2024
in Government Technology, AI Strategy, Defense Technology, Innovation Management
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Accelerating Clean Energy Tech Manufacturing: DOE Opens Applications for MAKE IT Challenge Facilities & Strategies Tracks

DOE Invites Applications for $30 Million MAKE IT Clean Energy Tech Manufacturing Challenge

The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a notable opportunity for prospective developers in the realm of clean energy technology. As part of a $30 million challenge known as the MAKE IT Prize, the DOE seeks to expedite the production of crucial components for clean energy solutions on a domestic level. The original article can be found here .

January 16, 2024
in Government Technology, AI Strategy, Defense Technology, Innovation Management
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Nokia Launches Specialized Federal Division to Cater to U.S. Defense Needs

Nokia Unveils Federal Division Focused on U.S. Defense Requirements

Nokia, a global leader in telecommunications and consumer electronics, has announced the launch of a new division tailored to support the unique needs of U.S. federal agencies. This move aligns with the technology industry’s growing interest in national defense applications, data strategies, information warfare, and incorporating AI into defense strategies. The original article can be found here .

January 15, 2024
in AI Strategy, Defense Technology, Government Technology, Innovation Management
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Navigating the Impact: Understanding Sections 9 and 10 of the Executive Order on AI for Government Contractors

Aligning AI Strategies: A Look at the Executive Order Section 10

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been a forefront technology within the federal government’s operations. Now, a fresh narrative has emerged―Section 10 of the Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence directs federal agencies on developing and using AI uniformly in their activities.

January 11, 2024
in AI Strategy, Defense Technology, Government Technology, Innovation Management
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Early 2024: Senate Commerce Chair Cantwell to Introduce Comprehensive AI Legislation

A New Stance on AI: Insights into Senate Commerce Chair Cantwell’s Upcoming Legislation

The path to a comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) legislation is set to take a significant turn, thanks to initiatives by Senate Commerce Committee Chair, Maria Cantwell. According to sources cited by FedScoop, Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington, is expected to introduce an array of bipartisan bills tackling various facets of AI.

January 11, 2024
in AI Strategy, Defense Technology, Government Technology, Innovation Management
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Reevaluating Strategies: Navy’s 4th Fleet Highlights the Need for Command Center Upgrades for Unmanned Operations

Unmanned systems command has certainly been a focal point for the Navy’s 4th Fleet, but as these technologies advance, the challenge of managing them effectively grows. Rear Adm. Jim Aiken recently shared insights into the progress and pitfalls experienced in combatting this issue.

January 11, 2024
in Government Technology, Defense Technology, Innovation Management
6 min read

A Data Standard Is an Institutional Contract

The Department of Defense’s release of Assistance Data Standard Version 1.0 sounded like a specialized acquisition-system update. It was more consequential than that.

Contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, research transactions, and prototype agreements encode how the Department allocates resources, structures incentives, shares risk, and moves technology toward mission use. When those instruments are represented inconsistently across systems, the Department loses the ability to see its own portfolio, compare outcomes, trace modifications, and learn which acquisition mechanisms work.

A data standard is therefore not merely a technical schema. It is an institutional contract about meaning.

January 10, 2024
in AI Strategy, Defense Technology, Government Technology, Innovation Management
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AI at the Spectrum Edge: The Real Lesson of JCREW

The Navy’s Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare system is a useful case study in applied artificial intelligence because it places computation where ambiguity, latency, and consequence converge: the electromagnetic spectrum at the tactical edge.

The practical problem is not simply detecting a signal or generating more jamming power. A protection system must determine which signals matter, allocate constrained sensing and electronic-attack resources, respond quickly enough to defeat a threat, and avoid unnecessarily disrupting friendly communications. The environment changes continuously, and an adversary is actively attempting to deceive or overwhelm it.

AI’s value in this setting is best understood as attention and resource orchestration under uncertainty.

January 10, 2024
in AI Strategy, Defense Technology, Government Technology, Innovation Management
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AUKUS Needs an Alliance-Native AI Engineering System

AUKUS Pillar II is often described as a portfolio of advanced technologies: artificial intelligence, autonomy, cyber, electronic warfare, quantum technologies, hypersonics, and undersea capabilities. The list is impressive, but the strategic challenge is not to advance each technology independently. It is to make three sovereign defense enterprises capable of learning and operating together at software speed.

AI makes that requirement unusually demanding. A model cannot be separated from the data, software, compute, mission context, human decision process, and evaluation evidence around it. An algorithm that performs well on one nation’s platform may fail when paired with another nation’s sensors, communications, doctrine, or operating environment.

The decisive AUKUS capability is therefore not a shared model. It is an alliance-native AI engineering system through which data, models, platforms, tests, and operational lessons can be combined without erasing national responsibility.