The Pentagon must default to rapid acquisition processes when buying software, from business systems to weapons components, the defense secretary said in a Thursday memo. The move is a “big deal,” one ...

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) today released its annual review of noteworthy research and development projects from the previous fiscal year. The 2025 SEI Year in Review highlights some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. service members participate in a cybersecurity exercise, Cyber Yankee, in Connecticut in 2023. (Sgt. Matthew Lucibello/U.S.

Reliable, fast, working, and user-friendly software is the basis of our everyday lives — something we all take for granted. The military can’t always say the same thing. A new memo endeavors to ...

Caliburn Technologies launch coincides with Pentagon shift to Software Acquisition Pathway, offering commanders a secure 'digital hitch ball' to adapt payloads at the speed of relevance. Backed by ...

Almost every system used by the Department of Defense (DoD) depends on software. This dependence is not a new development, but the criticality of software has grown markedly over the past few decades.

The Department of Defense is at grave risk of being caught flat-footed by the next software vulnerability. When an adversary discovers it, the Pentagon may not know which systems are exposed until ...

DOD needs to balance expediting its software acquisition process with a better system for gauging prospective vulnerabilities and mitigating harm in the event of an attack, the author of this op-ed ...