Defense Information Systems Agency
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DoD's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation urges the Pentagon to put further JRSS deployments on hold.
January 30, 2018 -
Army plans to assemble a vendor consortium with the goal of conducting 6-24 cyber prototyping projects a year, each within 30 days.
December 28, 2017 -
Alfred Rivera, currently the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency's development and business center, will retire Jan. 4 after a 35-year government career.
December 21, 2017 -
New leaders in Defense Department IT: Essye Miller is named acting DoD CIO and Rear Adm. Nancy Norton will be DISA director.
December 12, 2017 -
Marines still aspire to let troops bring their own devices to work, but the corps' top IT official says its current mobility strategy is "on the wrong trajectory."
November 28, 2017 -
DISA will hold its first industry listening session — called "Inside Industry" — during the first week in December.
November 07, 2017 -
What is the state of government contracting? Find out when Bloomberg Government's Cameron Leuthy and Dan Snyder join host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center. November 5, 2017
November 05, 2017 -
After merger of three Pentagon IT organizations, the new Joint Service Provider declares full operational capability, becomes part of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
October 05, 2017 -
The Navy says it's writing the next version of its Next Generation Enterprise Network contract so that it can offload email and other services to DISA's forthcoming commercial offering for unified communications, whenever it becomes available.
September 27, 2017 Dave Mihelcic, federal chief technology and strategy officer for Juniper Networks, discusses innovation, information assurance, security, integration and how his company can help agencies move to the cloud. July 11, 2017
July 10, 2017-
The Defense Information Systems Agency is hard at work on the next generation of mobile, secure computing for the Defense Department. And it's up to some heavy contracting activity.
June 27, 2017 -
Defense information pro Paul DeMennato offers advice about protecting informational systems against insider threats. He said it's more than keeping up to date on patches and monitoring files for human anomalies, it's about getting your staff to buy in to a culture of protecting against insider attacks.
June 20, 2017 -
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.
June 20, 2017 -
The Defense Department unveils a quick setup command post that is secure enough to handle classified information in the field.
June 15, 2017 -
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.
June 14, 2017