Defense Information Systems Agency
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A month after being rebuked by the Government Accountability Office for the way it planned to pick vendors in a ten year, $17.5 billion IT services contract, the Defense Information Systems Agency issued a revised request for proposals Wednesday, giving vendors a little more than three weeks to submit new bid packages.
September 08, 2016 -
GAO explicitly rejected the claim that the agency shouldn't have used LPTA, saying the decision was justified because ENCORE is “a mature program with a substantial commercial application.”
September 06, 2016 -
Scott Airforce Base in Illinois is home to the Global Operations Command of the Defense Information Systems Agency, 164,000 square feet devoted to cybersecurity.
September 05, 2016 -
For nearly 10 years, the Defense Information Systems Agency has been working to provide secure cloud computing to DoD agencies. DISA now helps agencies use commercial providers in a secure way.
August 30, 2016 -
For nearly 10 years, the Defense Information Systems Agency has been working to provide secure cloud computing to DoD agencies. No longer the exclusive cloud provider itself, DISA now helps agencies use commercial providers in a secure way. John Hale, the cloud portfolio manager at DISA. tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the effort centers on applications, if they're ready for cloud hosting and the best way to go about it.
August 22, 2016 -
The Defense Department will revise its final request for bids in a massive information technology services contract known as ENCORE III following months of industry complaints.
August 08, 2016 -
The Defense Department will likely have to make significant changes to a much-anticipated IT services contract known as ENCORE III following a legal decision that upheld challenges by two prospective bidders.
August 04, 2016 -
Government contractors and GAO are likely to be busy this summer responding to several billion-dollar solicitations for IT services and dealing with the corresponding protests from the losing bidders.
May 31, 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 -
DISA asks industry for help in defining the requirements for next version of MilCloud, including how to set up utility-based pricing
February 24, 2016 -
Charlie Armstrong called it a career after spending the last seven-plus years as the assistant commissioner for the Office of Information and Technology and CIO for CBP.
February 15, 2016 -
At least some of DoD's enterprise resource planning costs have been driven by duplicative hardware and other infrastructure investments, and the Defense Information Systems Agency thinks it can help.
January 25, 2016 -
The National Background Investigations Bureau will have its own director, who will report to the Office of Personnel Management. The administration says it doesn't have a specific timeline for implementing the new security clearance program or standing up the new agency, but changes will come in incremental stages.
January 22, 2016 -
DoD's forthcoming update to enterprise email is likely to include several other business collaboration tools, and will be rebranded as the "Defense Office Automation Service."
January 13, 2016 -
On this edition of Columbia Technology Partners Ready To Prime, host Allen Scott sits down with the Director of Small Business Programs at DISA, Sharon Jones.
December 21, 2015