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The Defense Department is taking a new look at the rules it applies to contracts with commercial cloud computing providers. The Pentagon's acting CIO wants staff to examine whether vendors' own security controls could replace DoD's requirement for government-operated cloud access points.
The Defense Department unveils a quick setup command post that is secure enough to handle classified information in the field.
DISA is prepared to scrap buying unified capabilities from industry if the price is too high. The agency is prepared to move to an open source platform.
The Government Accountability Office faults the Office of Personnel Management for not fairly evaluating each of the bids in a $117 million dollar contract.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is trying to stay ahead of the technology curve. That means putting investments in mobility and the security of mobile devices.
Alfred Rivera, DISA’s director of the Development and Business Center, said the agency is moving toward multi-factor authentication, including biometrics and other “patterns of life” type of technologies.
Trump's policies might save some money in DoD by reducing waste, fraud and abuse, but some changes, like the hiring freeze, might do more damage than good to the Pentagon.
Modernization can mean a lot of things, even if you keep your COBOL systems.
DISA is hurrying up its work to deliver unified capabilities to the Defense Department nearly a year early.
In November, when Army officials decided to launch the service’s first-ever bug bounty, one of the key questions they wanted to answer was whether sensitive personnel records were vulnerable to theft by hackers via the…
The Defense Department and Veterans Administration tell Congress their still working out the bugs at their joint health care facility in Chicago.
The Defense Department is having a particularly tough time integrating mobile technology into its mission, largely because every attempt to link it to the Common-Access-Card has been too cumbersome. But DISA’s Purebred program may have found a way to bypass the CAC altogether.
Army Secretary Eric Fanning has issued highly detailed orders to three-and-four star generals in the Army's headquarters and functional and geographic commands, telling them precisely what must be done to close 60 percent of the service’s 1,200 data centers by the end of 2018 and 75 percent by 2025.
A major Defense Department initiative to protect the military services’ computer networks with a shared system of regionalized cybersecurity centers will face new scrutiny in 2017, both from Congress and from the department’s inspector general.