AFCEA
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The Air Force is close to hiring an industry executive to change the way it procures big ticket IT items.
December 13, 2016 -
The website will launch in a few weeks and it will be a place where agencies can find cybersecurity best practices. The site is part of a multi-pronged approach to closing gaps in federal cybersecurity. Educating and training the government cyber workforce is another priority of the new federal chief information security officer.
October 11, 2016 -
The Pentagon is developing a secure cloud computing architecture that will create a standard approach for boundary and application level security for commercial services.
September 26, 2016 -
Agencies will know later this month how much more they will have to pay for security clearances to the National Background Investigations Bureau. The NBIB will meet initial operating capability on Oct. 1 and begin processing all security clearance cases.
September 07, 2016 -
As the Army migrates all its PCs to Windows 10 over the next year, and the Army’s helpdesk isn’t yet equipped to handle the surge of tech support calls.
August 17, 2016 -
Leadership of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants to know why the White House has yet to meet its obligations under a major information security law.
July 29, 2016 -
DoD CIO Terry Halvorsen is trying to create a dialogue around how to move off the Common Access Card. But experts say without money or an official program, not much can happen beyond plans and concepts in the short term.
June 20, 2016 -
COBOL itself, while expensive and increasingly difficult to maintain, stands as the proxy for the actual modernization difficulties.
June 02, 2016 -
Industry partners are trying to give the next DHA CIO a leg up when the position is filled.
May 03, 2016 -
The Defense Health Agency's next CIO is in for some big challenges. AFCEA is trying to make things a little easier for whoever takes the office.
April 26, 2016 -
The director of the Defense Information Systems Agency said DoD needs new tools to grapple with the fact that cyber adversaries have become much more brazen in recent years.
April 20, 2016 -
The Defense Department will begin a phased approach to over-the-air credential authentications this summer.
April 15, 2016 -
Mark Schwartz, chief information officer of the Citizenship and Immigration Services, said by moving legacy systems to the cloud, updates become more agile.
February 26, 2016 -
The Federal government’s security clearance system is outdated and needs to be replaced, but fixing it is going to take time because the government is still years away from fully developing a continuous evaluation process that can replace today’s once-every-five-years investigations.
January 29, 2016 -
DISA’s multiple award IT contract, ENCORE III, will help small businesses keep their status even if they grow during the contract’s lifetime.
November 10, 2015