Cybersecurity
DHS targets FEMA frausters, DOD finalizes supply chain rule, will ODNI share 702 data?
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon steps up private-sector cyber exchanges
The Defense Department is trying to draw cybersecurity expertise from the private sector while sharing its own lessons learned.
Digital Government
Cyber complacency, the Pentagon-COTS conundrum, an SES survey and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
DOD's head of Silicon Valley outreach sees post-Sony opening
Last year's hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment put private industry in a mood to do business with the Pentagon, says the head of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit Experimental.
Digital Government
Nontechnical problems doomed joint VA/DOD health record, top official says
Chris Miller, the Pentagon's point man on electronic health records, offers some real talk on why interoperability between DOD and Veterans Affairs is proving so difficult.
Cybersecurity
CISA passes Senate, Census seeks CIO and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Safeguarding Pentagon health records
Hackers have healthcare data firmly in their sights, and Capt. John Windom is keen to keep the Pentagon’s massive health records system from being the next breach victim.
Cybersecurity
NGA releases commercial strategy, OASIS chief heads to White House and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Acquisition
Obama vetos NDAA, new governance for shared services and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Former NSA chief: Data manipulation an 'emerging art of war'
Adversaries' ability to manipulate the content of stored data, a phenomenon that is high on U.S. officials' radar, is an "emerging art of war in cyberspace," former NSA director and retired Gen. Keith Alexander told FCW.
Digital Government
Sorry, DOD. Silicon Valley's just not that into you
The Pentagon is increasingly courting start-up firms in Silicon Valley, but Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain is not seeing much enthusiasm in return.
Cybersecurity
When a 'short-term' extension is a bridge too far, 3D printing at the Pentagon and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
The thin line between military and civilian cyber defense
U.S. Cyber Command's charge includes working with the Department of Homeland Security to defend critical infrastructure from a cyberattack, and that collaboration is very much a work in progress.
Cybersecurity
NDAA would change cyber acquisition, Gross tapped for CIO post at FDIC and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Acquisition
GSA, DCMA honored for EA accomplishments
The 13th annual Excellence in Enterprise Architecture Awards recognize transformation efforts and clear EA results.
Acquisition
DOD looks to agile to solve software conundrum
Defense Department acquisition officials see agile development as a possible lifeline in the Pentagon’s struggle with the monumental challenge of refreshing the software in its weapon systems.
Acquisition
DOD looks to predict key defense markets
The Defense Department should take a “more proactive and predictive approach” to identifying key technologies in the defense industrial base that need nurturing, a Pentagon official said Oct. 5.
Modernization
18F builds cloud platform, FirstNet tweaks RFP and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Shutdown guide, CTO study, US/UK cyber ties and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
For NGA, key to open source might be embracing uncertainty
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has made a point of hitching its operations to the boom in open source data. The next step could be philosophical -- a willingness to accept uncertainty.
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