Defense
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The court decision likely paves the way for the Navy to transition to the new NGEN contract, though Perspecta may still take its case to an appellate court.
December 18, 2020 -
The Pentagon has endorsed a new slate of initiatives to expand diversity within the ranks and reduce prejudice, including in recruiting, retention and professional development across the force
December 18, 2020 -
Affected companies, and that's thousands of them, are still assessing rules that came out in September for the Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.
December 18, 2020 -
The Navy is becoming ever more digital as information warfare, cybersecurity, and command and control become data driven activities.
December 18, 2020 -
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission's leadership said the SolarWinds breach has further raised the stakes for the National Defense Authorization Act that President Donald Trump has threatened to veto.
December 17, 2020 -
The Navy is using the commercially-developed concept of reliability control boards, plus data analytics and artificial intelligence to help determine the root causes of its aviation readiness challenges.
December 17, 2020 -
The service dropped nearly half of the occupations from its reenlistment bonus list for 2021.
December 16, 2020 -
Lifting and shifting an application to the cloud is usually the simplest approach to cloud migration. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. And at the Defense Department, the prevalence of Oracle databases running on Exadata platforms makes it even more complicated.
December 16, 2020 -
The United Service Organizations have received a $3 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to support its Combat COVID-19 initiative.
December 16, 2020 -
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has asked the White House to repeal an Obama-era executive order putting controlled unclassified information requirements in place.
December 16, 2020 -
The department is only naming seven upcoming procurements as candidates for the CMMC pilot program for the moment, but says more could be announced in the coming weeks.
December 15, 2020 -
The Space Force will be the 18th member of the collection of agencies providing national security information.
December 15, 2020 -
Technology has progressed to the point that the biggest obstacle still preventing JADC2 from becoming a reality is culture. It’s how the services and components interact, how they share – or don’t share – their data.
December 14, 2020 -
With some details, Todd Harrison, senior fellow and director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 14, 2020 -
Final bids are due Feb. 8 for yet another massive DoD IT contract. Although it's attracted much less attention than JEDI, this one's winner-take-all too.
December 14, 2020
