Colin Demarest
Colin Demarest was a reporter at C4ISRNET, where he covered military networks, cyber and IT. Colin had previously covered the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration — namely Cold War cleanup and nuclear weapons development — for a daily newspaper in South Carolina. Colin is also an award-winning photographer.
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Former CYBERCOM boss Nakasone to lead Vanderbilt defense institute
The move follows a yearslong stint overseeing elite military hackers and global intelligence collection.
Why Martell left Lyft for Pentagon’s top AI job
“So when the deputy secretary of defense calls you up and says, ‘We would like you to take this job,’ you have to think really hard about why you wouldn’t take the job, and not the other way around.”
Army verifies info-sharing abilities with forces joining Project Convergence 22
The U.S. Army said a communications test known as COMMEX 1B was a success, replicating and informing the scale and scenarios of Project Convergence in far-flung laboratory and field settings.
Palantir’s Karp is first western CEO to visit Zelenskyy amid invasion
“We are actively working not only on the digital blockade of the Russian Federation, but also to attract top international companies to Ukraine,” a Ukrainian minister said. “This is one of our priorities today.”
Pentagon’s AI, data office fully operational as leadership posts filled
Artificial intelligence, data and analytics have an influential new home at the Department of Defense.
Ukraine war shows danger of unencrypted communications, says US Army secretary
“When soldiers use unencrypted comms, that makes them targetable,” the Army secretary said. “And I think we are going to have to think about that.”
Time is now to reconsider autonomous weapons rules, Horowitz says
Michael Horowitz regards directive 3000.09 as “the world’s first policy statement on autonomous weapon systems,” a “remarkable document in many ways.”
Air Force’s Haugh confirmed as US Cyber Command deputy
In 2019, he said the U.S. was “engaged in power competition with adversaries in all domains today,” further describing intelligence as “the fuel that commanders require to maneuver in response.”
AI less about ‘killer robots,’ more about Pentagon transformation, Groen says
“Implementation in the department, of course, is always a challenge,” the director said, “as new technology meets legacy processes, legacy organizations and legacy technology.”
Marine Corps seeks ‘information command’ in Force Design 2030 update
“We believe that in a conflict with a peer adversary, first moves may be in space and cyber, so we must enable our” forces “to integrate with, and have access to, those capabilities now,” reads the update.
