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Soldiers from the Old Guard test the second iteration of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) capability set during an exercise at Fort Belvoir, VA in Fall 2019. (Army)

Army delays $22B IVAS headset program

Defense

The NATO flag. (Getty Images)

Kessel Run adds NATO as a user for refueling software

Defense

U.S. Army soldiers discuss network issues during a brigade-wide field training exercise at Yakima Training Center, Oct. 21, 2013. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Chris McCullough)

Army expects Project Convergence to involve 5,000 personnel during 2021

Defense

707th Communications Squadron client system technicians update software for computers that will be used on Air Force networks at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Alexandre Montes)

The Air Force remakes a squadron into a cyber-focused unit

Defense

Staff Sgt. Jacob Rascon, right, and Sgt. David Hendrixson, both assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), analyze prototyped cyber field equipment during Cyber Quest 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. TaMaya Eberhart, 55th Combat Camera)

Army’s first phase of unified network ’18-24′ months away

Defense

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Louis Burge, Army National Guard (ARNG) Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army (IPPS-A) Build and Sustainment Manager, went to the National Guard Bureau to hang a banner in recognition of IPPS-A reaching live status. ( Staff Sgt. Benjamin D Applebaum)

Army delays update to its largest HR system

Defense

Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center director, conducts a press briefing about the DOD’s efforts to adopt and scale artificial intelligence capabilities, from the Pentagon, Washington D.C., Nov. 24, 2020. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jack Sanders)

JAIC chief wants AI progress to be ‘slow and incremental’

Emerging Tech

KANDAHAR, KANDAHAR PROVINCE – JUNE 06: A soldier stands on an M-ATV, the heavily-armored successor to the Humvee, at a US Army base in Kandahar province June 06, 2010 in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The M-ATV and other mine-resistant vehicles have almost completely replaced the venerable Humvee for transporting American forces around in Afghanistan, using innovations like thicker, irregularly-shaped windows to help protect troops from deadly roadside bombs and other explosions. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Army CDO pushes tech companies to be more interoperable with one another

Defense

Navy — A sailor aboard the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) mans the rails as the ship departs Naval Station Rota, Oct. 30, 2020. (U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Will Hardy)

Navy looks to keep modernization momentum gained during COVID-19 response

Cyber