Cybersecurity
DOD looks to new analytics center to tackle insider threat
The Defense Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center is meant to be predictive rather than reactive, with the help of advances in big data.
Cybersecurity
Transportation Command upbeat in cyber progress report
Ten months after a Senate Armed Services Committee report faulted Transportation Command's cyber posture, the commander and his potential successor said progress has been made.
Cybersecurity
Whistleblower worries, FEMA's personnel data and DARPA's cyber competition
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization
DHS funding, election-season API, spectrum sharing and 'secure enough' mobility
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Acquisition
Pentagon's Silicon Valley unit gets $1.75M for fiscal 2015
The outreach facility will get another $5 million for the next four years.
People
Writing advice from 18F, DOD staff changes and a flying motorcycle
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
The private-sector focus of the Pentagon's annual cyber exercise
"Participants rehearsed a whole-of-nation response to destructive cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure," according to the Pentagon's official news service.
Cybersecurity
The quest for command and control in cyberspace
Since the U.S. military declared cyberspace an operational domain in 2011, it has been a question of how and when, not if, the Pentagon will organize its capabilities.
Cybersecurity
HHS mirrors Google, bank regulators' IT shortcomings and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Halvorsen's Silicon Valley trip shakes up JRSS
An RFP for Joint Regional Security Stacks software will ask vendors to incorporate big-data analytics capabilities that DOD CIO Terry Halvorsen observed firsthand in Silicon Valley.
Modernization
GSA ponders partnership with DISA on telecom
GSA is including a clause in the EIS contract to bring it in line with the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation System.
Modernization
18F delays RFQ again, DOD wants cloud, White House FISMA compliance and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization
Study tackles DOD acquisition riddle
Use all funding options to get cutting-edge technologies into the hands of soldiers faster, says a new CSIS study.
Digital Government
Pentagon hopes single service provider will deliver
The DOD is looking for its transition to a single service provider for IT services to yield benefits in efficiency and scale.
Cybersecurity
Joint Chiefs official blasts cultural resistance to major IT projects
Two of the Pentagon's major IT security initiatives face problems from the ranks, laments Lt. Gen. Mark Bowman.
Cybersecurity
Rogers mum on OPM attribution, but says hack shows value of data
The country's top cyber official declined to officially attribute the OPM hack to China, but called the intrusion a reminder of how "data has value as a commodity."
People
Hires at USDA and AT&L, and drone delivery arrives
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
People
Grassley unsatisfied with DOD response to ex-comptroller case
Sen. Charles Grassley and the Defense Department have traded letters over the alleged mistreatment of former Defense Information Systems Agency Comptroller Jimaye Sones.
Cybersecurity
DOD looks to better data for better security
Pentagon officials are trying to do a better job of reaping the low-hanging fruit of cyberattack data to make their networks more secure.
Cybersecurity
Navy challenged by spear phishing, software patches
The less discriminate act of phishing is apparently a Defense Department-wide problem.
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