Space Force, DIU open the door wider to commercial technologies

The Space Force is making sure its commercial space strategy isn’t just another document that sits on the shelf. Using its own strategy, released in April 2024, in conjunction with…

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Cloud Exchange 2025: IDC Government Insights’ Max Claps on cloud gains, AI and continuing challenges

Federal agencies are deepening their reliance on cloud computing, moving beyond initial adoption to leverage automation, multicloud orchestration and artificial intelligence integration for enhanced operational efficiency and security. This evolution,…

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Cloud Exchange 2025: Air Force’s Keith Hardiman on reducing cloud complexity, introducing FinOps

The Department of the Air Force is revamping its cloud strategy to accelerate cloud adoption and build out hybrid and edge computing environments. It expects to release the revised strategy…

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Cloud Exchange 2025: FedRAMP’s Pete Waterman on rapid, incremental innovation

The update to the cloud security program known as FedRAMP is taking an approach that is mostly foreign to government. After a decade of frustration — what seemed like never-ending…

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Cloud Exchange 2025: National Guard Bureau’s Kenneth McNeill on integrating secure military capabilities into emergency response

The National Guard’s Project Homeland — an initiative to integrate homeland defense into the Pentagon’s ambitious Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control framework — is bridging the gap between local…

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