The Defense Department plans to have 133 cyber mission teams at full operational capability by the end of 2018. Of those, 40 are in the Navy. But the Navy says achieving that milestone would take a team effort. It’s not just a mission for the 10th Fleet, its cyber command. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, commander of the 10th fleet, spoke with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu at the Sea Air Space expo at the Gaylord National Convention Center, in National Harbor, Maryland.
Agency IT leaders bemoan restrictions with policy and the rapid speed of the Internet of Things environment as major barriers to deploying new commercial IoT devices in the field.
The Homeland Security Department's National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center analyzes information to help give other federal, state and local officials a clearer picture of real and potential threats.
The continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program is relying on a blanket purchase agreement approach that isn’t as flexible as DHS and GSA officials thought it would be.
The Office of Personnel Management terminated its contract with Imperatis on May 9 after the small business alerted the agency it had financial trouble and would be ceasing operations immediately.
The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate hosted its first industry day in Silicon Valley and about 200 companies showed up as part of the federal government’s outreach to start-ups.
The General Services Administration inspector general issued a management alert saying the 18F organization didn’t follow agency policy and may have caused a cyber breach.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's chief information officer says the agency is in the process of implementing a variety of safeguards to protect data, after reporting five additional cyber breaches at the hands of unknowing former employees.
When the Defense Department announced its plan to upgrade most of its computers to Windows 10 by 2017, the Marine Corps, characteristically, said it would go first. But the smallest of the Defense services has run into problems.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is revamping the Defense Innovation Unit Experiment before it even turns a year old.
Federal leaders in cybersecurity are finding themselves in the position of trying to guess what the next big thing is going to be and how to prepare for it.
Senators focused on the authorities of an inspector general during the hearing for the nomination of Peggy Gustafson to IG of the Commerce Department.
Federal agencies like the Internal Revenue Service are finding that they must balance an increase in the amount of data they have to secure while providing safe access when that information is needed.
The department's Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) now has the ability to give access to users based on their job functions and attributes, not merely the person's name or employee number. Donna Roy, executive director of the Information Sharing Environment Office at DHS, said that capability is helping the department build trusted identity exchanges.
While House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) dallies with Donald Trump, some actual business is going on in Congress. In particular, two cybersecurity bills in the Senate, one from a Democrat and one from a Republican. David Hawkings, senior editor at CQ Roll Call, shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.