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Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones

Vox

Ukrainian drones have made much of the Black Sea a no-go zone for Russia ’s navy — despite the fact that Ukraine has virtually no navy of its own — and in recent days, drones have been able to reach deep into Russian territory. That’s pretty modest within the Pentagon’s $850 billion budget request.

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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today

CIO Business Intelligence

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases. Top 10 business needs driving IT spend.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. But in other areas, IT teams will look to increase budgets and spending. But by 2027, the analyst firm expects that to rise to at least 40%.

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Air Force CDAIO Eileen Vidrine on leading top-flight AI operations

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is transforming the ways in which we do virtually everything. With the appointment, Vidrine rejoined the department after serving as the senior strategic advisor for data to the federal CIO in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a post she held since January 2022.

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Biden Signs Infrastructure Bill with $1.9B Support for Cybersecurity Efforts

SecureWorld News

Cyber Response and Recovery Act of 2021 : The budget grants $100 million over five years to respond to cyber incidents, according to language in the bill. 70612): $1 billion will be distributed between 2022 and 2025 to pay salaries, administrative costs, and other expenses. Here are a few of the ambitious ways the U.S.

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A refocus on the hybrid working technology experience is now critical to employee satisfaction and retention

CIO Business Intelligence

IDC also predicts 65 per cent of G2000 companies will consider online presence to be at parity to real life across their engaged workforce by 2025, with 30 per cent of those same organisations adopting immersive metaverse conferencing tech by 2027.”

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Space nuclear power is nearing critical mass as the final frontier’s next frontier

GeekWire

At least that’s the way a panel of experts at the intersection of the space industry and the nuclear industry described the state of things this week during the American Nuclear Society’s virtual annual meeting. “In order to do significant activity in space, you need power.

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