Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced hundreds of thousands of Federal employees to remote work environments, zero trust was mainly a concept in the minds of cybersecurity experts that had not been fully actualized. But as telework has become the new normal, enabling zero trust capabilities is a key goal for various agencies. […]
The Defense Department (DoD) is putting in place additional workplace restrictions for the Pentagon Reservation area over the Thanksgiving weekend – effective at 5:00 a.m. EST on Nov. 26 – due to the increased spike COVID-19 cases in the National Capital Region. […]
The U.S. Army has appointed Raj Iyer as its new CIO, according to a LinkedIn post from Iyer. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) confirmed late Friday that it awarded the Intelligence Community (IC) Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) Cloud Service Provider (CSP) contract to multiple vendors. […]
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced that Matthew Kozma is the new CIO for the Intelligence Community (IC). In his new role, Kozma will advise the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on information management, technology, and assurance, including IT infrastructure and investment priorities across the IC’s 17 agencies […]
The United States Air Force (USAF) is turning to wearable devices to support its COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. […]
As 5G wireless service innovation becomes more critical in various IT sectors, the opportunity to revolutionize Defense Department (DoD) operations, particularly developing Smart Bases, has become more apparent, military officials said today. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has selected Dave McKeown as its new CISO, a DoD spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The Defense Department (DoD) is launching a new mobile app that will have the capability to connect service members, their families, and survivors to everyday resources to help with their well-being. […]
What if moving an entire network to the cloud was easy? […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a Nov. 5 report that the Department of Defense (DoD) has made progress in establishing valid and reliable cost baselines for its enterprise business operations, but still needs to refine and formalize its reform efforts. […]
In the Information Age, newly named director of the Defense Department’s (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Lt. Gen. Michael Groen wants to make sure that the U.S. warfighter is prepared to take on challenges and be equipped with the technology to do so. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking information on technology and estimated costs required for establishing a Department of Defense (DoD) Public Safety Communications (PSC) ecosystem. […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative basic or applied research concepts to detect airborne SARS-CoV-2 pathogens. […]
The Senate on Oct. 26 confirmed Maj. Gen. Robert J. Skinner as the next head of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking “revolutionary” research ideas, according to an Oct. 27 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). […]
The U.S. Army is working with Fitbit on wearable technology that has pre-symptom COVID-19 diagnostic capability, the company said. […]
The Defense Department’s (DoD) new Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Strategy released last week marks a shift in the Pentagon’s views of spectrum from separate considerations of warfare-directed and general management uses, to a “unified treatment of these activities as Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO),” said Defense Secretary Mark Esper in the strategy document. […]
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has won the $4.4 billion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) contract that will streamline the Defense Department’s (DoD) office applications and move the armed services further into the cloud, the company confirmed today. […]
John Sherman, Principal Deputy CIO at the Department of Defense (DoD), said Oct. 28 that the Pentagon is making progress with IT modernization activities for the parts of the agency known as “the Fourth Estate” – offices that are not military services or intelligence community agencies. […]
Defense Department (DoD) Deputy Chief Data Officer James Cully today emphasized the importance of keeping an open mind about how to work greater data capabilities into technology solutions as the Pentagon moves forward to execute on its data strategy released earlier this month. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Oct. 24 officially launched its new electronic health record (EHR) system at VA facilities in the Pacific Northwest and Las Vegas. […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is looking for innovative ways to determine recording locations of audio and video data. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is canceling its audit of corrective actions taken by DoD in response to cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified during operational testing and evaluation of acquisition programs, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and FBI issued a joint cybersecurity advisory on Oct. 22 to warn operators of state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) government networks that they may be targeted by Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced it is investing $197 million to advance microelectronics technology and strengthen the American microelectronics industry. […]
The milCloud 2.0 environment offers Department of Defense (DoD) mission partners a range of benefits for data storage by leveraging vendor technology, an all-flash storage architecture, and a welcome level of familiarity, experts explained during MeriTalk’s milCloud 2.0: Powering the Future of Cloud Storage webinar on October 20. […]
Officials from the Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) said this week that two of their top concerns for further improving supply chain security are getting better end-to-end visibility of supply chains and integrating more threat intelligence into the picture. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking to move its databases and entire operational system for biometric surveillance capabilities into an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment. […]
Count Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., as a “no” vote at this point on at least one aspect of the Defense Department’s (DoD) request for information (RFI) issued last month that solicits public input on a range of issues involving the Pentagon’s plans to deploy 5G wireless services. […]