Joint Regional Security Stacks

• DoD likely to lean on overseas accounts for sequestration safety valve

  The Obama administration already has made clear that it will request a budget Monday which violates the automatic spending caps in existing law. But for DoD, the war accounts, which are exempt from the caps, may serve as a backup plan.

  Budget

  February 02, 2015
• Air Force evolves its cybersecurity as JIE comes into focus

  Air Force CIO Lt. Gen. Bill Bender said the service is baking in role-based authentication capabilities as part of its move to the MilCloud. He said the Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS) will help the Air Force move out of its AFNet architecture.

  Ask the CIO

  January 07, 2015
• Army’s move to enterprise email kicked culture transformation into gear

  Mike Krieger, the former Army deputy CIO/G6, retired after 35 years in government. He says the move to email-as-a-service in the cloud provided the Army the roadmap to change how it looks at shared services.

  Ask the CIO

  November 13, 2014
• DoD to test commercial cloud for some sensitive data

  Terry Halvorsen, DoD's acting chief information officer, is planning to change the way the military uses and manages its network. The Joint Information Environment is driving many of the modernization efforts across DoD.

  Defense

  August 14, 2014