FCW (August 20, 2019) John Sherman, the intelligence community’s CIO, announced Aug. 20 that the IC is looking to establish a new program office with full-time, in-person access to subject matter experts in order to help the IC develop new IT capabilities.
Fed Tech (August 22, 2019) As the intelligence community has moved more of its business and mission operations in the cloud, agency CIOs have had to overcome several obstacles, including the ingrained culture of resistance, but they are confident the long-term impact of moving to cloud will be valuable.
FCW (August 23, 2019) In a new report, the General Services Administration’s Office of Inspector General says the agency may not be getting the best deal for its customers when it fills spot orders via NASA’s SEQP governmentwide acquisition vehicle for technology.
FCW (August 26, 2019) An official with the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), says increased breaches and cyberattacks are causing private infrastructure providers to increasingly participate in the agency’s cyber threat information sharing efforts.
Fifth Domain (August 27, 2019) Col. John Transue from the Army’s Cyber Center of Excellence recently described several capabilities that the Army has already approved requirements for in an effort to provide its units, commands and installations with new critical defensive cyber tools and platforms.
FedScoop (August 27, 2019) Air Force Deputy CIO Bill Marion told an audience at the Air Force Information Technology & Cyberpower (AFITC) conference in Alabama Aug. 27 that all the military services are doing a much better job of not starting from scratch on their own but are instead working both with commercial vendors and …
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Fifth Domain (August 29, 2019) The Army is working with the Pentagon to build a more secure development environment for its defensive cyber tools. As part of this, the Army’s Big Data Platform, which is essentially a hybrid cloud environment allowing for storage, computation and analytics across a variety of networked sensors, is expected to …
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By John Wood, Chairman As part of our mission to advocate for greater innovation in government technology circles, the Alliance for Digital Innovation (ADI) recently wrote federal CIO Suzette Kent to urge accelerated release of the final Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) 3.0 policy. We cited several reasons this updated policy is needed and should be …
FCW (August 22, 2019) The current model of how federal agencies manage cybersecurity risk will change dramatically in the next five years, with some agencies embracing shared services, said Chris Krebs, director of the DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Kreps said the current model, which tasks all federal agencies with taking care of their …
Breaking Defense (August 21, 2019) The U.S. Army wants to reorganize and expand Army Cyber Command to make it an Information Warfare Command, and to give the revised organization the capability to move faster to combat U.S. enemies in cyberspace, which means greater use of automation and avoiding delays caused by bureaucratic reviews.
