Chris Cleary, the U.S. Navy’s principal cyber advisor, said that data is the fuel driving the implementation of zero trust security architectures, and said agencies moving in that direction need to meet the challenge of identifying data and protecting it. […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking information for a new, $1 billion contract to provide technical analytical support services (TASS), according to a recent request for information.  […]

Earlier this month, U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) conducted a wide-ranging defensive cyberspace operation focused on sweeping for known malware, and intended to “highlight and enhance CYBERCOM’s interoperability with partners.” […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking technical proposals for a new program that aims to develop automated approaches to conducting cybersecurity assessments on computer networks, according to an announcement posted to SAM.gov on Oct. 24. […]

The United States Air Force is moving to shore up its end-user technology support functions following emergence of a “fix our computers” campaign that went viral earlier this year on Twitter and asserted that the Defense Department (DoD) was losing hundreds of thousands of employee hours annually due to computers that don’t work right. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) announced on Oct. 24 the appointment of Army Senior Officer Gen. Joseph A. Papenfus as the newest assistant to the agency’s director. […]

When the National Security Agency (NSA) – whose mission centers on signals intelligence and cybersecurity – tips its cap to the private sector for cyber intelligence, that’s a heady endorsement. […]

The U.S. Army last week updated its 2020 cloud plan to reinforce its objectives of digital modernization and integration of key services into one global cloud environment – cARMY – an Army spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has named Danielle Metz to head its newly established Information Management and Technology (IM&T) Directorate. […]

Matt Benigni, chief data officer at the Army Futures Command (AFC), explained this week that he sees a path forward for further “maturity” in the organization’s digital engineering standards and practices. […]

At the Geo-Resolutions Conference – a joint conference between the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Saint Louis University on Sept. 28 – experts explored geospatial solutions to help combat climate change and expand the GEOINT workforce in the St. Louis region.  […]

The U.S. Air Force has released its final solicitation for a $5.3 billion contract vehicle that will aid warfighters in supporting and enabling the Defense Department’s entire cyber framework. […]

The U.S. Army has awarded SAIC a $757 million contract to help the Army operate a software platform and management system for enterprise IT services. […]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has long been the agency for analysis of imagery and maps within the intelligence community (IC), however, agency officials believe that a key part of that mission is the analysis of the written word. […]

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plans to diversify its applicant pools and reduce the long onboarding hiring process as the agency tries to revamp its hiring practices, an agency official said. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is reshaping how it engages with the military workforce in the consumption and delivery of technology and information technology (IT), a top-level DoD tech official said this week. […]

The National Security Agency (NSA) expects National Security Systems (NSS) owners and vendors to start using post-quantum algorithms by 2035. […]

The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Deputy Director for Digital Innovation (DDI) flagged competition with China, the need to create better artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, and pressures to ramp up digital capabilities as three of the agency’s biggest tech priorities at September 13 event organized by GovExec. […]

The Defense Department said on September 12 that it issued updated guidance for its contracting officers on approaches for addressing inflation under existing firm-fixed-price (FFP) contracts. […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) last week installed Brig. Gen. Christopher Povak as NRO’s new deputy director and commander of the Space Force Element. […]

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Director Scott Berrier concluded the 13th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit by discussing where the Federal agency is in terms of its intelligence supporting cyber warfighting, and where it needs to go. […]

William J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailed some of the most important actions that they are undertaking to deter foreign adversaries in the realm of cybersecurity at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit on September 8. […]

George C. Barnes, deputy director at the National Security Agency (NSA), expressed reserved confidence in the American private sector to maintain a steady technological lead against foreign adversaries at the Cybersecurity Summit hosted by Billington Cybersecurity on September 7. […]

The United States Air Force (USAF) has released a draft version of its Chief Information Officer (CIO) Public Strategy that outlines the service branch’s IT priorities through fiscal years 2023 to 2028. […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has appointed Mike Madsen to serve as acting director starting Sept. 2, when current DIU Director Mike Brown departs, a DIU spokesperson told MeriTalk.  Madsen will remain as acting director until a permanent director is selected. […]

The Department of Defense said on August 30 that technology services provider CACI has won a $5.71 billion blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Air Force to provide enterprise IT services under the Enterprise Information Technology as a Service (EITaas) Wave 1 contract. […]

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $163 million contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to help support and modernize its shore networks, network components, and network service solutions. […]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) plans to select multiple providers of radio frequency (RF) data collected by commercial satellites to provide government analysts access to unclassified data collected by commercial satellites, an agency official said on Aug. 25. […]

Modernizing the military and intelligence community’s top-secret IT network, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS), is a top priority for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), said the agency’s chief information officer (CIO). […]

The Defense Department (DoD) has awarded the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) a contract that could be worth up to $10.6 billion from the U.S. Navy to perform research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) work. […]