Defense
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The Department of the Navy pushed out Tom Sasala, the department’s highly-respected CDO since October 2019, leaving it without defined leadership and potentially overwhelming its data organization.
February 22, 2023 -
The small but potent Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has reached its stride, as it enters its eighth year in business. The DIU uses a technique known as "other transaction authority" to quickly get new technology prototypes built for military purposes.
February 21, 2023 -
Aaron Weis, the Department of the Navy’s chief information officer, wrote to staff that his last day is March 17.
February 21, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Did DoD officials take risks when authorizing commercial cloud services? OPM is offering Federal HR specialists a free web-training opportunity. And the Commerce Department has a new leader for advancing equity.
February 21, 2023 -
With Thunderdome, DISA moves to expand zero trust to more users and add a follow-on contract for applications.
February 20, 2023 -
This episode, Michael Binder speaks to John Sopko, who served as Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction since 2012.
February 20, 2023 -
DARPA looks to three companies to help build a quantum computer that works for the Defense Department.
February 17, 2023 -
Besides operational capability in the face of CBRN threats, DTRA bring two other assets to the fight: people and research.
February 15, 2023 -
During this exclusive CISO Handbook webinar, moderator Justin Doubleday and guests Louis Koplin from the Department of the Navy and Michael Mestrovich from Rubrik will discuss zero trust progress and strategy moving forward at the Department of the Navy.
February 15, 2023 -
DCSA is reducing rates by 18% in fiscal 2024, amid the governmentwide shift to continuous vetting.
February 14, 2023 -
TRADOC looks to a more nuanced synthetic training experience to prepare soldiers for battle.
February 14, 2023 -
A panel of federal and industry experts describe each of their approaches to achieving a zero trust architecture to improve the security of systems and data.
February 13, 2023 -
After two decades of counterterrorism missions, the Defense Department is shifting its attention to “great power competition.” DoD’s approach to engineering is also changing as it looks to upgrade its systems, integrate old with new, and have more resilience in the face of both cyber and kinetic attacks. DoD is now emphasizing the use of digital engineering to modernize its systems for the potential “near-peer” fight.
February 10, 2023 -
More than 17,000 companies left the Defense Industrial Base over the past five years, according to an annual assessment by one of the Defense industry's main trade associations.
February 10, 2023 -
This week Federal Drive host Tom Temin has been interviewing some of the Defense Department's acquisition workforce award winners. In this interview, he talks with someone with a title Temin said he will only pronounce: "The finance manager for the joint program executive office for chemical, biological, radio-logical and nuclear defense joint assisted acquisition team.
February 09, 2023
