AFCEA

  • The Navy readies RFIs for email and data storage to figure out how to best reduce spending on non-mission critical systems. Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen is exploring whether DON\'s non-classified email can be hosted by a third party, and whether a public-private partnership can be developed around data centers. Navy has no plans to use the DISA email system.

    June 10, 2011
  • Agency chief information officers say the road to more agile acquisition and development of information technology has some speed bumps, including misaligned budgetary and acquisition cycles, and industry partners who are just as accustomed to the old way of doing things as the government is.

    May 27, 2011
  • Susan Lawrence, the Army\'s newly-appointed Chief Information Officer members of the IT and communications industry that the service is focused on creating an end-to-end IT infrastructure, eliminating structures that required soldiers to train and live on one network, and deploy on another.

    March 21, 2011
  • The federal government could soon pay a $2,000 subsidy to federal employees who buy their own mobile devices.

    March 07, 2011
  • Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said he wants to move toward giving feds a subsidy - of say, $2,000 - to purchase their own devices to work on.

    March 01, 2011
  • The Department of Homeland Security already has real-time access to biometric data maintained in the FBI\'s huge database of criminal records. Within the next year, it\'ll be able to share similar data with the Defense Department.

    March 01, 2011
  • The administration\'s IT agenda for fiscal 2012 will include new tools to combat cyber threats as well as major overhauls to how agencies manage their systems. Agency CIOs say agility will be important moving forward.

    February 28, 2011
  • The Cyber Command is focused on achieving real-time capabilities, but the director of current operations said they still have serious work to do. He appealed to industry leaders for help designing a sufficient platform.

    February 24, 2011
  • DoD is trying to figure out how to keep risks that one part of the organization takes from affecting the rest of the military\'s networks. DISA addressing other security goals by adding PKI to secret network.

    February 21, 2011
  • The Defense Department wants its information technology projects to be developed in smaller, faster chunks that take no more than 18 months to deploy. One Air Force program executive officer says he\'s already doing it in 12 months.

    February 08, 2011
  • The Defense Department\'s leader of business process reform said Friday that she\'s hopeful the Government Accountability Office will remove one of DoD\'s high risk areas from its biennial list of government trouble spots. GAO is expected to issue the list within the next several weeks.

    January 24, 2011
  • The National Geospatial-lntelligence Agency has welcomed its first wave of employees at its new facility in Fort Belvoir, according to the AFCEA website. About 300 people reported to work at NGA Campus East yesterday. They’re…

    January 19, 2011
  • Several departments are out ahead of the OMB mandate to consolidate data facilities over the next four years. Energy is starting small to show business owners they will get the same level of service under the new setup. Other agencies see green in cutting back on the centers-both money and energy efficiency.

    January 14, 2011
  • DoD is expanding the use of demilitarized zones to improve security of its unclassified network. Over the next two years, DISA require all service applications to go through these buffer zones.

    January 07, 2011