Defense
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The Army’s new CIO wants to codify regulations for new software and data capabilities as he plans for new data platform contracts next year.
August 21, 2023 -
Colby Proffitt, a cybersecurity strategist at Shift5, explains why observability is so important to improving the security and modernizing operational technology.
August 21, 2023 -
You're heard of the term cancel culture: getting rid of people with unpopular opinions. It's not all that new. The popular new movie Oppenheimer re-enacts the revocation of the scientist's security clearance in the 1950s, because of his opposition to the hydrogen bomb. What about today?
August 18, 2023 -
A report on sexual assault and harassment at the military academies recommends better access to mental health care and restructuring peer leadership.
August 18, 2023 -
The Army’s expanding technical specialties require leaders with the knowledge to train its young soldiers while keeping them up to date.
August 17, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The FBI is getting a new leader to take on insider threats. The Defense Department mobilizes resources to help in Hawaii. And the saga of the CIO-SP4 contract continues.
August 16, 2023 -
Lily Zeleke, the deputy chief information officer for the information enterprise at DoD, said the move to the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability is as much about taking advantage of enterprise services as it is about not breaking mission outcomes.
August 15, 2023 -
The Defense Department has been spending an increasing amount of its budget on maintenance and support costs to keep its aging fleets of aircraft at a certain level of mission readiness. However, costs keep rising as the lifecycle of aging weapons platforms gets extended, budgets struggle to keep up with inflation ultimately raising potential risks to mission readiness.
August 15, 2023 -
Venice Goodwine replaces Lauren Knausenberger, who departed in June, as the Air Force chief information officer.
August 15, 2023 -
Looking for ways to make the acquisition process more accessible for innovators, National Technology Alliance seeks to network industry, capital and government.
August 14, 2023 -
Intelligence agencies are bringing more of a top-down focus to open-source intelligence (OSINT).
August 14, 2023 -
Melissa Vice, the director of the Department of Defense’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program, said the 12-month voluntary pilot with defense contractors found vendors faces similar challenges as the department in securing their networks.
August 14, 2023 -
The American Federation of Government Employees filed a request with the Federal Labor Relations Authority to begin investigating the viability of union recognition at Ramstein Air Base.
August 11, 2023 -
The Biden administration is trying to address some more immediate spending needs through a supplemental request that will come up before Congress can pass the 2024 budget.
August 11, 2023 -
Biden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster borderThe Biden administration is asking Congress to provide more than $13 billion in emergency defense aid to Ukraine and an additional $8 billion for humanitarian support through the end of the year.
August 11, 2023
