Archive for October 2023
DoD One Step Closer to Zero-Trust Systems for Battlefield Communications
October 20, 2023 The Department of Defense recently announced the winners of the 2023 5G Challenge, which took place in Louisville, Colorado and awarded $7 million in prizes. This year’s event focused on integrating open radio access network (Open RAN) components from multiple vendors to build an inter-connected system for universal use. Open RAN is…
Read MoreDoD’s Manufacturing Innovation Institutes: Changing Lives and Enabling Warfighting Capabilities
October 12, 2023 Dr. Steven Wax, performing the duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology, spent several days in New England visiting two of the Department of Defense’s nine Manufacturing Innovation Institutes. The recent visit included both the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute/BioFabUSA and Advanced Functional Fabrics of America. MIIs were created…
Read MoreDoD Releases New Joint Federated Assurance Center Portal for the Research and Engineering Workforce
October 5, 2023 The Department of Defense (DoD) released the newly updated Joint Federated Assurance Center portal recently. This free resource provides publicly available hardware and software assurance information to assist both public and private research and engineering workforce sectors in building and maintaining reliable, safe, and secure DoD systems. The JFAC, a part of…
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