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Defense Information Systems Agency
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\"Data volumes are exploding. Budgets are shrinking. Join this discussion and learn how federal agencies are storing more, yet spending less on storage. If you need to cut your IT budget, doesn\'t it make sense to start with one of your biggest line items? Tune in as our panelists present real examples that show how agencies are containing large volumes while capturing savings—with storage that\'s faster, easier to manage, and more secure. Find out the keys to storage efficiency: buying less hardware, eliminating redundant data, streamlining backup/recovery, avoiding network or bandwidth upgrades, and reducing everyday operating costs.\"
September 27, 2011 -
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Android devices are next up in DoD\'s effort to get off-the-shelf smartphones up to snuff with the Pentagon\'s security needs. Also, the Army looks for a better way to do two-factor authentication on mobile devices.
July 18, 2011 -
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A single Defense department cloud email system might be in the works. Learn more in today\'s DoD report
July 12, 2011 -
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Just-retired DoD Secretary Robert Gates issued a recent memo announcing his decision about how DISA and the chief information officer\'s office will change. Gates said DoD will dis-establish the Networks Integration and Information office.
July 06, 2011 -
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Even though the legislative authority expired in May, GAO determined it still can decide task order complaints because of the Competition in Contracting Act.
June 15, 2011 -
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DISA has plans to manage and monitor a million cellphones and other mobile gadgets.
June 14, 2011 -
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Census and DISA are losing the hardwires in favor of mobility.
May 16, 2011 -
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Seventy percent of the Defense Information System Agency\'s workers are making the move to Ft. Meade, Md. DISA, however, is keeping the pipeline of potential new hires stocked and taking steps to improve the hiring process. Vendors also have not seen a large exit of employees, but could later this fall.
May 12, 2011 -
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For military bases in the national capital region, forget the \"closure\" part of Base Realignment and Closure. The 2005 BRAC round means huge growth at bases around Washington, and along with it, a need for new infrastructure and creature comforts for the growing workforce.
May 11, 2011 -
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Bert Rice, director of transformation at Ft. Meade, who says the construction is nearly complete. Now, as he tells Federal News Radio, it\'s time to focus on the \"transportation challenge.\"
May 11, 2011 -
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In the latest installment of BRAC Impact: A Federal News Radio and WTOP In-Depth Series, Jack Penkoske discusses about the telework option to help with the transportation challenges brought on by BRAC.
May 11, 2011 -
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For military bases in the national capital region, forget the \"closure\" part of Base Realignment and Closure. The 2005 BRAC round means huge growth at bases around Washington, and along with it, a need for new infrastructure and creature comforts for the growing workforce.
May 10, 2011 -
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In a column for Federal News Radio, Ft. Meade Commander Col. Dan Thomas says, \"By this fall, the official worker population of Fort Meade will have grown to more than 48,000. This is 13,000 more personnel than we had three years ago - you do the math: if BRAC growth is 5,400, who are all these other people?\"
May 10, 2011 -
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Moving into a new building has allowed DISA to revamp its technology infrastructure, including consolidating circuits, servers and paper records. The Joint Task Force, National Capital Region Medical is building a new network to carry health data and applications for three services to share. Both organizations say without BRAC, these changes would have taken longer to happen.
May 10, 2011
