Industry News
Developments we are watching across the fields SimIS works in, with a short note on why each one matters.
Senators Jim Banks and Kirsten Gillibrand introduced S. 5601, the Insider Threat Reporting and Security Guidance Act of 2026, on September 29, and it went to the Senate Armed Services Committee. The bill would give the...
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Cyber AB CEO Matthew Travis told Federal News Network what the accreditation body asked for in its response to the CMMC reform RFI, concentrating on changes the department could make without new rulemaking. The central...
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Department of War CIO Kirsten Davies signed guidance on "Accelerated Mission Software" on August 31, and it took effect September 8. The 37-page instruction encourages components to use AI to speed software delivery...
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Department of War CIO Kirsten Davies says the CMMC Reform Task Force received more than 1,100 responses to its RFI, totaling over 10,000 pages, and more than half of respondents supported pausing Phase 2. Her clearest...
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Joint Interagency Task Force 401 published its 2026 Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Quick Reference Guide on September 8, and it's free to download. The guide sets a common technical baseline for sensors, command...
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NETCOM’s commander is asking industry to build a full digital twin of the Army network for training, testing and vulnerability discovery, and said to start small and grow it. That is a modeling and simulation requirement...
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Phase 2 — the third-party C3PAO assessment requirement due November 10, 2026 — is suspended pending a 60-day reform task force, and officials left open that the program could be cancelled outright. Phase 1...
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GAO assessed $49 billion across 23 of the department’s most expensive Middle Tier of Acquisition programs. Eighteen of forty entered the rapid prototyping pathway with immature technologies between 2018 and 2025, seven...
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A new Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager consolidates all ground vehicles, all small air vehicles and almost all sea vehicles under one office reporting to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. This is structural rather than...
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GAO finds the 2025 DOT&E workforce cuts left staff carrying more programs than they can handle and without expertise in some warfare areas. Action officers also told GAO the services could use the Middle Tier of...
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Booz Allen ran more than 2,800 trials across roughly 450,000 lines of code, testing four Chinese coding models against one U.S. model. Three of the four produced significantly more vulnerable code when given a U.S....
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