After reviewing four major and software-intensive space defense programs within the Defense Department (DoD), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found in a report today that DoD software development approaches aren’t optimized to meet the programs’ needs. […]

An internal U.S. Navy report found that the service branch and its industry partners face a severe barrage of cyberattacks from China, according to an article from the Wall Street Journal today. […]

The U.S. Navy said it has approved the final draft of its Information Warfare Readiness Improvement Plan (IWRIP). […]

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has been awarded the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Atlantic’s Navy Secure Voice Systems contract. […]

On Tuesday, the Department of Defense (DoD) inspector general (IG) released a detailed summary of the agency’s 2018 audit that detailed the departments struggles with its IT systems. […]

A new report from the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General (IG) found weaknesses in cybersecurity defenses for ballistic missile defense systems, putting technical information on the systems at risk. […]

Perspecta announced today that it won a $787 million contract extension from the Department of the Navy for the continuation of IT services. […]

In another example of how far the cyber domain is pervading every aspect of warfare, military units are beginning to add cyber protection testing to vehicles before they hit the road. […]

The Navy’s IT operations have a new sheriff, in the form of a chief management officer whose arrival makes the high-profile Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer a thing of the past. […]

“Ready, fire, aim!” has never had much of a positive connotation, either in financial or military circles, but the Navy’s newest weapon could be changing that, at least somewhat. […]

The Army and Navy recently announced that their Cyber Mission Teams were fully operational, and the U.S. Cyber Command now has all of their planned complement of 133 teams in business. With its people (totaling more than 6,000 service members and civilians) in place, U.S. cyber forces can now look to machines to help carry out effective operations in the cyber domain. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is cooking up big plans for blockchain technology, the digital ledger best known for its support of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The technology’s decentralized, encrypted approach holds promise for a variety of secure functions in addition to financial transactions, from cyber defense and distributed communications to protecting the digital supply chains used by deployed forces for 3D printing. A Navy officer on the Naval Innovation Advisory Council has written that blockchain could “revolutionize” the way military operations over the next decade. […]

MeriTalk compiles a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Here’s what happened this week in the Federal Information Technology community. […]

MeriTalk compiles a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Here’s what happened this week in the Federal Information Technology community. […]

Department of the Navy CIO Rob Foster will be leaving his role this month to become Deputy CIO at the National Credit Union Administration, a Navy spokesman confirmed. […]

MeriTalk compiles a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Here’s what happened this week in the Federal Information Technology community. […]

MeriTalk compiles a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Here’s what happened this week in the Federal Information Technology community. […]

MeriTalk compiles a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Here’s what happened this week in the Federal Information Technology community. […]