Technology

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  Inside the DoD Reporter’s Notebook – Army tells commanders to move out of and mothball older facilities

  The service is implementing one of the few alternatives it has to a base realignment and closure (BRAC) round: moving soldiers and civilians out of its oldest buildings and shuttering them.

  DoD Reporter's Notebook

  October 19, 2015
• Navy, Marine Corps see NGEN as gateway to commercial IT

  But both services say they hope to use the recompetition of NGEN to give commercial industry more of a hand in the IT services they're providing to sailors and marines.

  DoD Reporter's Notebook

  October 19, 2015
• Pentagon orders broad initiative to drive cybersecurity compliance, change cyber ‘culture’

  Pentagon leaders say it’s time to ratchet up the pressure on senior leaders to comply with existing security policies and better train their personnel on cyber hygiene.

  DoD Reporter's Notebook

  October 19, 2015
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  10 takeaways from the AUSA conference

  With the convention wrapped up, here's a list of major factors the Army is tackling, and what they're doing to improve them.

  Army

  October 19, 2015
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  OMB bans most new contracts for desktops, laptops

  The Office of Management and Budget’s new guidance prohibits civilian agencies from buying computers off any contract except from one of three governmentwide acquisition contracts.

  Acquisition

  October 16, 2015
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  Army PEO-EIS takes on toughest IT modernization tasks

  Hari Bezwada, the chief information officer of the Army’s Program Executive Office-Enterprise Information System, said he’s taking measured approach to migrate five ERP systems to a shared services provider.

  Technology

  October 16, 2015
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  Curt Barker: NIST aims to improve email security

  Email may be vital to the modern working world, but it's also a major target for hackers. Now, as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is aiming to help better secure it. NIST recently published a draft guidance on better email security, which is now available for comment. Curt Barker is a guest researcher at NIST, specializing in cybersecurity. Federal Drive host Tom Temin asks him if it's fair to say phishing attacks are the main way hackers get into corporate and federal networks.

  Federal Drive

  October 16, 2015
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  VA CIO advances ambitious timeline for change, new cyber strategy

  The Veterans Affairs Department's new chief information officer is pushing projects her office can finish now, in the near-future and distant future. One of those early initiatives is the Enterprise Cybersecurity Strategy, which the VA submitted Sept. 28 to Congress.

  Technology

  October 16, 2015