DISA
The Defense Department has greenlighted three dozen commercial cloud offerings since it first overhauled its commercial cloud security processes in January.
September 28, 2015The 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-
On Wednesday, DISA released a request for information as it prepares to migrate its Enterprise Email service to a commercially-hosted cloud and telling industry that it wants the new solution to beat the current system's costs by 50 percent.
September 18, 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 has taken an interesting approach to cloud computing as it transitions from the sole broker for the DoD commercial cloud market. DISA recently released what it termed a "best practices guide" to help Defense agencies buy their own cloud services. Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu writes about this and several other matters in this week's edition of "Inside the DoD Reporter's Notebook." He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
August 25, 2015 -
The Defense Department’s program to let employees use smartphones on the secret network is becoming more popular than ever imagined.
August 17, 2015 -
GSA, on behalf of the Defense Information Systems Agency, made a $296 million award for email-as-a-service to Dell Federal. GSA made the award to Dell June 19.
August 17, 2015 -
The never-ending talk about cloud computing makes it seem like agencies have fully bought in and everything is going to the cloud. But a recent event with several federal technology executives showed just how far cloud and open source have to go.
July 27, 2015 -
The Defense Department and the National Institute of Standards and Technology provided a lift to the future of mobile computing in the government. DoD announced it moved its classified mobile capability from a pilot stage…
June 30, 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 -
On Monday, the Pentagon made good on its promise to make more use of the government\'s FedRAMP process, certifying 23 cloud products as secure enough to host DoD low-level data.
May 05, 2015 -
A Defense comptroller reported wrongdoing at the Defense Information Systems Agency and was removed from his position. Now, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Mark Warner want Defense Secretary Ash Carter to launch a full investigation. They say Jimaye Sones\' demotion from comptroller to working on accounting software is a clear case of whistleblower retaliation. As part of this week\'s Legal Loop, Lynne Bernabei, a partner at the law firm Bernabei and Watchel, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to further explore this case.
April 30, 2015 -
The Defense Department is creating a single shared-services office for all commodity information technology for the Washington metro area and placing it under the Defense Information Systems Agency.
April 13, 2015 -
The Department of Navy\'s Cyber Fleet Command is among the first military services to recognize the need to operationalize cyber along with traditional weapons. DISA Director Gen. Ronnie Hawkins said the Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS) should move into a cyber range to test the security architecture against real-world attack simulations.
April 08, 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