The Navy’s Chief Data Officer (CDO) said today that the Defense Department’s (DoD) highly anticipated joint data strategy between the Army, Navy, and Air Force will feature an emphasis on data protection and security. […]

The deputy director of the Defense Department’s (DoD) Digital Defense Service (DDS) gave a strong endorsement on Oct. 29 of the value of the agency’s “bug bounty” programs which enlist the help of third parties to explore segments of DoD networks looking for vulnerabilities. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking to move from cloud adoption to optimizing and enabling the full promise of cloud computing within the Pentagon, said Peter Ranks, deputy CIO for information enterprise at DoD. […]

Erica Thomas, a robotic process automation (RPA) Program Manager at the Department of Defense (DoD), said Oct. 21 that efforts to deploy RPA technologies in financial accounting systems are providing a boost in the morale of agency employees who are being freed from performing repetitive tasks. […]

Officials from the Departments of Defense (DoD), Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are bootstrapping an effort to further clarify and detail roles and career paths of the Federal cybersecurity workforce, the officials said Oct. 21 at the ACT-IAC Imagine Nation 2019 conference. […]

There’s a government and national responsibility in communicating the minimum standards for cyber security engineering, according to Chief of Missions for the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Col. Stoney Trent. […]

The Department of Defense plans to centralize the recruiting databases of its service branches into one system for cybersecurity and reduced duplication, according to a notice set to be posted on the Federal Register on October 16. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Sept. 30 officially transferred the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) to the Defense Department (DoD), a move that makes the Pentagon responsible for nearly all – about 95 percent – of government security clearance investigations. […]

The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is looking for assistance in developing “AI-based knowledge graphing” that collects strategic activity abroad from open source web-based content for analysis and reporting. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) and the Defense Department’s (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) announced today they are teaming up for a “discovery sprint” as part of GSA’s Centers of Excellence (CoE) initiative. […]

The Defense Department (DoD) needs to operate at a fast pace to maintain global advantage, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are paving the way forward to more rapid response to national security threats and dangers, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Deputy Director Mike Madsen said today. […]

The Department of Defense has not fully implemented mandates from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to increase its use of open-source software and release code, according to a September 10 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]

Shifting the organizational mindset around cloud modernization is a driving factor for Federal agencies to overcome the challenges of cloud migration. […]

Maj. Gen. Marine Gen. Dennis Crall, the Defense Department (DoD) deputy principal cyber advisor and senior military cyber policy advisor, outlined the pillars and priorities of DoD’s cyber strategy at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit on Sept. 5. […]

The Department of Defense released a draft version of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), dated August 30, offering a glimpse into how the department plans to apply cybersecurity requirements to its contractors in the near future. […]

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) considers FY20 to be a breakout year for AI-enabled capabilities as it focuses on projects including predictive health; AI for maneuver and fires; and the Joint Common Foundation (JCF). […]

The Defense Department (DoD) is seeking a small business vendor to provide security services and penetration testing for its Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) outreach office, with the aim of helping the office boost its cyber defenses. […]

Since the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) began implementing its internal vulnerability management continuous monitoring security program – Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) – officials who have worked closely with the solution have praised ACAS’s capabilities, from its continuous passive monitoring, to its dashboarding and prospects of scaling to the cloud. DISA first issued ACAS’s […]

Principle Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for intelligence Kari Bingen, has sad that the security clearance backlog has been cut in half after a high point of 725,000 in April 2018. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) launched the Department of Defense (DoD) Secure Access File Exchange (SAFE) on Aug. 15, which will provide users with an enterprise-wide ability to safely transfer files in the DoD. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense Department’s (DoD) Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) announced that they began a strategic partnership Aug. 12 to aid the VA in its supply chain management modernization efforts. […]

The Senate last week confirmed Thomas McCaffery as Assistant Secretary of Defense for health affairs. […]

Officials from the Defense Department (DoD) highlighted supply chain and workforce and culture issues as two significant problems the agency faces in maintaining strong cybersecurity, during a panel discussion at FCW’s Cybersecurity Summit. […]

The Federal government is looking forward to implementing 5G wireless services as they become available, but building security into 5G services from the beginning will be key to a successful implementation, said officials from the Department of Defense (DoD), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the General Services Administration (GSA). […]

While the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has completed its migration of existing records into the data center of its electronic health record (EHR) vendor, the VA and Department of Defense (DoD) are jointly searching for a director and deputy to oversee $10 billion, 10-year modernization effort. […]

The U.S. Army is seeking industry partners to assist with securing cyberspace operating areas to free up soldiers to “defend forward.” […]

An inspector general (IG) for the Department of Defense (DoD) found internal control weaknesses relating to contractors installing cybersecurity controls that protect networks and systems containing DoD controlled unclassified information (CUI). […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) detailed a program it is launching and is seeking research proposals for to help the Defense Department (DoD) understand zero-knowledge proofs in a July 18 news release. […]

A General Services Administration (GSA) blog post highlights how a recent amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) has made it easier for Federal agencies to acquire IT through GSA. […]

Several high-ranking Federal agency tech leaders are set to testify before the House Government Operations Subcommittee on July 17 when it holds a hearing to consider the effectiveness of the FedRAMP (Federal Risk Assessment and Management Program) program that standardizes security requirements of cloud services used by the government. […]