Secure comms with allies is hard. The Pentagon wants to change that

The Pentagon wants to simplify its classified networks—so it’s testing out a secure, cloud-based network on a British aircraft carrier in the Indo-Pacific, a top defense tech official announced Thursday. The Defense Department has been working on a new initiative designed to sketch out possible ways to collapse or reduce the number of secure networks the military has to use to communicate with allies and partners, Leslie Beavers, the Pentagon’s principal deputy chief infor