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The Defense Information Systems Agency is holding its annual conference in Baltimore this week. Enterprise technologies and standardization are key themes. DISA has told its public and private sector partners that it intends to do all of the above, even in a climate in which budgetary resources are declining.
The Army resumed its migration of users to its new cloud email system on Tuesday. Other enterprise services will follow behind it, including an enterprise version of Microsoft Sharepoint, which will mostly displace the Army Knowledge Online web portal, officials said.
DISA is working on a follow-on contract to the current deal that includes virtualization services the follow-on is expected to be awarded in 2014.
The Army will begin lifting its finger off of the pause button for enterprise email within the next few days, the service\'s chief information officer said.
Host Roger Waldron will talk government contracting with Mary Davie, assistant commissioner for the Integrated Technology Service at GSA\'s Federal Acquistion Service. August 2, 2011(Encore presentation August 16, 2011)
Making DoD\'s smart phones smarter and safer. Hear from John Herrema, Senior Vice President of corporate strategy at Good Technology
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.
A single Defense department cloud email system might be in the works. Learn more in today\'s DoD report
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.
Even though the legislative authority expired in May, GAO determined it still can decide task order complaints because of the Competition in Contracting Act.
DISA has plans to manage and monitor a million cellphones and other mobile gadgets.
Census and DISA are losing the hardwires in favor of mobility.
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.
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.