Defense Information Systems Agency
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Cyber breach victims who haven't yet received a notification letter from the Office of Personnel Management can visit a verification center in the next few weeks for extra help. OPM said its verification system is live but won't be made available to the public just yet.
November 23, 2015 -
A new report highlights the Defense Department's challenges in adopting cloud services, and what it's doing to overcome them.
October 19, 2015 -
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.
October 16, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Beth Cobert said the department began sending notification letters to victims of the cyber breach. The letters include information about the identity theft protection and credit monitoring services.
October 01, 2015 The Defense Information Systems Agency’s cyber defense headquarters has been involved in seven named operations since it started its duties in January.
September 23, 2015-
Pentagon officials fully acknowledge that they’ve been relatively sluggish adopters of cloud computing, but have continued to maintain that there will always be some applications that are so sensitive that they will never be appropriate for transition to commercial hosting and must stay within the military’s networks.
September 14, 2015 -
GSA's office of integrated technology services and the Defense Information Systems Agency are in discussions to determine whether cloud is a "sufficiently defined" market to warrant a new multiple award contract of its own.
September 03, 2015 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency is taking an interesting approach as it transitions from its former role as the sole broker for the DoD commercial cloud market and into something more like a cloud sherpa for the rest of the military.
August 24, 2015 -
The Pentagon’s newest cyber organization is poised to take a key step in its maturation over the next several weeks as it branches out from Fort Meade and into three new branch offices designed to help defend DoD systems in various geographic areas.
July 06, 2015 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency has had a constant mission for decades. Yet the ways it delivers constantly change as communications technologies change. DISA recently released its strategic plan covering the next five years, which spells out the agency\'s operating principles and strategic goals. Tony Montemarano is DISA\'s executive deputy director. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more of what\'s in the plan, and why it starts by pointing out the agency is at \"an operational crossroads.\"
June 22, 2015 -
After four months during which there\'s been no permanent face at the podium in the Pentagon press briefing room, DoD has finally announced a new press secretary.
June 22, 2015 -
A new secure online collaboration tool is up and running at the Defense Department. The open source solution enables access card users to chat, message and conference securely with others around the world. Karl Kurz is the program manager for Defense Collaboration Services at the Defense Information Systems Agency. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain more about the new tool and what came before it.
March 09, 2015 -
The Defense Department will shut off its widely-used Defense Connect Online service in June, and is telling all of its users to transition to a new DISA-provided service before then. But the vendor behind DCO thinks users are hooked, and will continue to provide it for a fee.
February 20, 2015 -
The Defense Department's National Information Assurance Partnership's (NIAP) protection profile will be the governmentwide standard for agencies to use when ensuring the security of mobile apps. The Mobile Technology Tiger Team recommended the NIAP approach because of the collaboration and coordination across government and with industry.
February 19, 2015 -
Pentagon CIO sees renewed vigor in DoD's cloud migration path as an opportunity to raise the bar for the nation's overall cybersecurity, telling vendors he wants a much closer partnership with commercial cloud providers.
January 30, 2015