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VA Secretary Robert Wilkie speaks at the National Press Club on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2018. (VA photo by Eugene Russell)

VA defends 12% increase for IT in 2021 budget request

Defense

VA EHRs, Puget Sound — The Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle, one of the sites where the VA wants to roll out its electronic health records system. (Veterans Health / Flickr)

New EHR go-live date is July 2020, VA secretary says

Defense

Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley hold a joint press conference at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 2020. (DoD Photo by Army Staff Sgt. Edwin J. Pierce)

Pentagon leaders push for emerging technology R&D increase in 2021

Defense

A student assigned to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, who is in the Special Forces Communications Sergeant course, practices using a PDA-184 computer and an AN/ PRC-117G satellite radio during training at the Yarborough Training Complex at Fort Bragg, North Carolina August 29, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by K. Kassens)

Palantir, BAE score $823M contract to modernize Army’s Distributed Common Ground System

Defense

Gen. Stephen Lyons, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, and Chief Master Sgt. Jason France, USTRANSCOM senior enlisted leader, met with Airmen during a visit to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar on Nov. 16, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John Wilkes)

Transportation Command is looking to CMMC to secure its vulnerable contractors

Emerging Tech

DOD, Department of Defense, Pentagon, military — (DOD / Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)

Pentagon adopts ethical principles for artificial intelligence

Defense

Navy, Marines, military — U.S. Marines with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company watch illumination shells during Exercise Iron Fist 2020 on San Clemente Island, California, Feb. 7. Iron Fist is an annual, bilateral training exercise between U.S. and Japanese forces. (U.S. Marine Corps / Cpl. Patrick Crosley)

The military’s biggest hurdle to modernization? It’s already doing a lot of other things.

Modernization

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., during a meeting with the American Legion in 2018. (Flickr/Jon Tester)

Bill to boost transparency on VA’s IT is moving in Senate

Defense

Adm. Karl M. Shultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard, speaks to attendees at the 2019 State of the Coast Guard address held at Coast Guard Base Los Angeles-Long Beach in San Pedro, California, March 21, 2019. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Benjamin Berkow)

Coast Guard wants a ‘tech revolution’ to dig itself out of IT from the ’90s

Defense