Defense
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In an exclusive interview with Federal News Network, Danielle Metz, the new CIO for the Office of the Secretary of Defense outlines a plan to dig 18,000 Pentagon employees out of a decade of technical debt.
October 14, 2022 -
The Army may operate primarily on the ground, but it relies on space communications to maintain freedom of movement and situational awareness and to guard against known and emerging missile threats.
October 13, 2022 -
The business of keeping the Army equipped, fed and fueled falls to the Army Sustainment Command
October 13, 2022 -
Many agencies struggle with antiquated digital architecture and a lack of skills and talent to implement AI, a chief data scientist at the Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service said.
October 12, 2022 -
Not much can happen in the Army without the products and services that clothe, feed and equip the soldiers. Responsibility for acquiring most of what the Army needs falls to the Army Contracting Command.
October 12, 2022 -
Katie Arrington, the former DoD chief information security officer for acquisition and sustainment, says dedicated funding is needed to address long-standing cyber problems in weapons systems.
October 12, 2022 -
Army housing has been a sore subject for residents, Army leadership and Congress. But there's been progress.
October 12, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The Army is creating a new integrated program office to bring all of its zero trust pursuits under one roof. GAO tells GSA it has got a real problem selling real estate efficiently. And Senate inaction causes a top OMB vacancy to remain unfilled, going on five years.
October 12, 2022 -
The Army's updated cloud plan adds urgency for commands to move their legacy systems to the cloud, with more cuts planned to government data centers. Hundreds of other systems deemed to have low business value will be sunset entirely.
October 12, 2022 -
Among other things, initiatives aim to incentivize large prime contractors to incorporate innovations from small businesses into their bid proposals and give contracting officers better tools to manage intellectual property rights.
October 11, 2022 -
The DoD’s CIO and its Office of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment will remove weapons systems from the network if they are not cyber secure.
October 10, 2022 -
The biggest-yet phase of the bring-your-own-device pilot will help the Army figure out how to scale the technology across a diverse population of users in the active and reserve components — and part of the Air Force too.
October 07, 2022 -
With three new awards to OPM, HUD and the Army, the TMF Board now has "loaned" out $435M out of the $1B it received in the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act.
October 06, 2022 -
Kelly Fletcher is heading over to the State Department to be its CIO after spending the last six-plus years at the Defense Department. At the same time, NIH is looking for a new CIO after Andrea Norris announced her retirement as of December.
October 06, 2022 -
Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), the Defense Department’s initiative to synchronize the joint force across domains, is not a new idea.
October 05, 2022
