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.
Fed Tech (August 21, 2019) A new strategic plan on advancing cloud computing in the intelligence community calls for supporting artificial intelligence and machine learning, disconnected and edge capabilities, applications and data that are portable, and workflows that move across multiple layers of security.
GCN (August 19, 2019) On Aug. 15, DISA issued a provisional authorization for moderate-baseline workloads to run in clouds authorized in other agencies by FedRAMP, without explicit written authorization from DoD. The move will streamline cloud migration for mission partners and reduce the steps cloud service providers go through to offer FedRAMP moderate solutions for …
C4ISRNet (August 16, 2019) The Pentagon’s proposed FY 2020 budget calls for $927 million in funding for Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as machine learning, including $208 million earmarked for the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). The funding, much of which would go to basic AI research, would allow DoD and the IC to leverage …
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Nextgov (August 16, 2019) A GAO report faults the Army for activating two new cyber units last year without being able to staff, train and equip them properly.
Federal News Network (August 15, 2019) DHS is learning from component agencies who have already moved to the cloud, with staff from such agencies participating in the department’s cloud steering group to identify agency best practices and set a departmentwide cloud agenda.
