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The Defense Information Systems Agency shut down Internet access and BlackBerry service for Pentagon employees Thursday morning.
The Army and DISA are using more disciplined processes to implement technology upgrades. Email-in-the-cloud also is giving the Army better a firmer cyber posture, and it opens the door for a host of emerging technologies because of better identity management.
Tony Montemarano, the director of strategic planning and information at DISA, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss DISA\'s efforts in enterprise IT.
The Defense Information Systems Agency created a Defense-wide directory of email addresses in support of their enterprise email system. But the real value in the listing of every military and civilian employee, contractor and retiree email address may be in securing information in a new way through the use of access based identity management. NIST is testing how to best use secure identity cards in the cloud.
When the DISA cloud was hit with e-mail bringing in malware, cyber officials quickly squashed it.
DoD dollars are coming down, and cyber threats are rising. The Defense Information Systems Agency says the enterprise services it\'s trying to build for the entire military are one answer to both problems.
Request for information covers maintenance of all joint staff networks and applications, and ensuring the network is secure through risk management mitigation, network vulnerability analysis and security auditing.
House and Senate negotiators who hammered out an agreement for the 2012 defense authorization bill added language that puts the brakes on the Army\'s transition to an enterprise email effort. The language adds several requirements the Army and DoD must meet before moving forward with the project.
DISA wants improve its enterprise information visibility for the department\'s 15,000 unclassified networks by creating an Enterprise Information Web. The semantic Web will allow data to be more easily shared and reused across the department.
The Pentagon faces an uphill climb in getting ready for an audit of its consolidated financial statements by 2017, outside experts said Thursday. Nonetheless, the goal is achievable if the push is sustained by future secretaries of Defense.
The Defense Information Systems Agency\'s website had been offline since Saturday. Agency officials blamed a hardware problem.
NATO and its members say a network they constructed to tie together the national networks of the various militaries operating in Afghanistan is a success story — except for the fact that the network took eight years to get up and running. But U.S. Defense officials said they have a better understanding for future coalition operations for how best to build such a network.
The complex in Ft. Meade, Md., received the second-highest environmental building certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Maj. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins Jr., Hawkins, who currently serves as deputy director for command, control, communications and computer systems for the Joint Staff, will take over for current DISA director Lt. Gen. Carroll Pollett.