Reporter's Notebook
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Besides restructuring and bifurcating the large front office that’s currently responsible for both acquisition and R&D, the bill adds several new authorities that build on last year’s trend of letting DoD sidestep the traditional acquisition system.
December 05, 2016 -
The expected nomination of retired Marine Gen. James Mattis to become secretary of defense depends on a one-time change to federal statutes that require military officers to have been retired for at least seven years before becoming the civilian leader of the Pentagon.
December 05, 2016 -
Several key GOP members of Congress began to weigh in this weekend with strong disapproval over suggestions that Adm. Michael Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, may be fired during the final weeks of the Obama administration.
November 21, 2016 -
If all goes according to plan, the Defense Department is a few weeks away from releasing new guidance on how it buys and builds business IT systems.
November 21, 2016 -
DoD now has a fully-functional Wi-Fi network throughout much of the building, something that was unimaginable to the Pentagon’s own IT experts as recently as a few years ago because of cybersecurity concerns.
November 21, 2016 -
Across the cabinet agencies, 10 chief information officers are politically appointed. The question continues to come up every four years whether these senior IT executives need to be career or political.
November 14, 2016 -
The 2017 Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) guidance to agencies redefines what constitutes a major cyber incident for a third time in the last decade.
November 14, 2016 -
The General Services Administration and the Homeland Security Department awarded CGI Federal a task order for the Credentials and Authentication Management (CRED) under phase 2 of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program.
November 14, 2016 -
For the first time since it became a separate service in 1947, enlisted pilots strapped into cockpits and flew solo missions.
November 07, 2016 -
Rumors of the death of Army Knowledge Online — the web portal soldiers and Army civilians have used for everything from training to email since the 1990s — were evidently premature.
November 07, 2016 -
The Army is currently experimenting with a concept it calls cyber support to corps and below (CSCB) — the notion that individual tactical units need to deploy with their own offensive and defensive cyber and electronic warfare capabilities and be prepared for an enemy that can and will use electronic attacks on the battlefield.
November 07, 2016 -
The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is transforming to serve its customers based on how it’s implementing category management.
November 07, 2016 -
Terry Halvorsen, the DoD chief information officer, signed a memo on Oct. 18 requiring military services and agencies to trust each other when accrediting and authorizing systems.
November 07, 2016 -
Federal News Radio received an early look at how the cloud security program known as the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program (FedRAMP) plans to improve how it interacts with agencies and vendors next year.
November 07, 2016 -
Trevor Rudolph is leaving the White House after spending the last four-plus years as the chief of OMB’s Cyber and National Security Unit. IT executives at the GPO and SEC also are on the move.
November 07, 2016