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The Navy Department’s top IT official says current cyber approval processes create strange incentives that degrade systems’ security instead of improving it.
If federal agencies want to boost cybersecurity they’ll need to organize data beyond lakes or stores. That's why the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission recommended a joint collaborative environment last year.
The Navy is becoming ever more digital as information warfare, cybersecurity, and command and control become data driven activities.
Twenty years after the inception of NMCI, the Navy's networks still aren't unified and have a very hard time dealing with cloud services. The COVID-19 pandemic has served as something of a wake-up call to help fix that.
The long-term vision is to reduce friction in the Navy's innovation ecosystem. In the meantime, it may also help keep some of its smallest and most vital suppliers afloat.
The Navy Department's acquisition boss says the pandemic has helped to drive efficiencies into the contracting system, and many of them will need to become a lasting part of how the Navy and Marine Corps do business.
The Navy plans to eliminate its office of Assistant Secretary for Installations, Energy and Environment in favor of a new Senate-confirmed position: Assistant Secretary for Information Management.
The Navy department is considering the creation of a new assistant secretary for information management, a role that could extend well beyond that of a traditional CIO.
Anthony Smith, director of the Department of the Navy's Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institution (HBCU/MI) program., joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access to discuss how the program is helping the Navy increase and diversify its pool of researchers and analysts.
Beyond arguing for a larger fleet, authors of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments report on the potential boost of defense funding, say the Navy needs to be re-structured to meet likely future threats. Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the center, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what that re-imagined fleet would look like.
The Navy readies RFIs for email and data storage to figure out how to best reduce spending on non-mission critical systems. Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen is exploring whether DON\'s non-classified email can be hosted by a third party, and whether a public-private partnership can be developed around data centers. Navy has no plans to use the DISA email system.
Terry Halvorsen, the Department of the Navy\'s chief information officer, said the Navy and Marine Corps should expect ruthless cost cutting in information technology. Halvorsen said if the services don\'t cut costs themselves, it will be done for them.
New document outlines best practices, ideas and what to avoid when deploying 2.0 tools at your agency.
There has been all sorts of talk about Web 2.0 and security, and the Defense Department is on the front lines of that discussion. We are expected the DoD policy on these Web 2.0 tools…