Special Bulletin Review: Enterprise Cloud Conversations

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department Inspector General says the Pentagon’s bureaucracy is getting in the way of hiring the cyber employees the military needs.

During the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard hearing, Federal CIO Clare Martorana outlined her four priorities.

Joint All-Domain Command and Control is the Defense Department’s project, known as JADC2, aims for a single enterprise network to which all of the armed services can plug in.

A Senate report makes the case for reforms to the law governing federal cyber standards after multiple agencies made “minimal progress” on security standards.

National Cyber Director Chris Inglis urged Congress to stand up a Bureau of Cyber Statistics within the Department of Homeland Security that would collect, analyze and publish data on cybersecurity, cyber-crime and threats.

The Department of Defense is aimed at creating the smart base of the future. Bases are essentially miniature cities, with all the same infrastructure needs like transportation, on-base personnel services and energy management, coupled with specific military needs. The idea is to use a 5G infrastructure to connect all of these elements, as well as cybersecurity and physical security, to become fully integrated and agile.

In today’s Federal Newscast, NASA is able to move forward with a contract award involved with its plans for sending people back to the moon.

Not all agencies have invested the time and resources, nor possess the skillsets required, to implement data platforms. Managed Platform-as-a-Service (MPaaS) is a way for these agencies to accelerate the journey to unfettered data access.