Cybersecurity
A safety lesson from Little League, GSA breach notification and Navy war gamers
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Acquisition
Necessity is the mother of Navy acquisition reform
The Navy's Innovation Cell is designed to speed up a lumbering acquisition system by getting vendors involved earlier in the process.
Cybersecurity
Revisiting the Navy’s blueprint for cyber operations
Operation Rolling Tide, which drove Iranian hackers from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, could have a lasting impact on the Pentagon's approach to cyber.
Cybersecurity
New job for Norton, plus updates on drones and data breach legislation
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Secret Service head named, accused hacker pleads and Navy patents honored
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Navy intelligence challenged by big data
Rear Adm. Elizabeth Train says a common networking architecture is a pressing need.
Digital Government
GovTV: The Navy's new robot firefighter
A prototype of the Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot debuted this week.
Acquisition
Top Navy official asks Congress to strip out acquisition regulations
The new Congress should focus reform efforts on doing away with existing regulations rather than adding new ones, says the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition.
People
How would you like to run the Navy's IT?
With Terry Halvorsen running DOD IT, the Navy is now officially looking for a new CIO.
Digital Government
Pirate tracking, highways in the sky and laser deployment
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Kelli Bell
This Rising Star leads the team that is in charge of conducting risk assessments for the Navy's IT systems.
Acquisition
Shawn Garrow
This Rising Star has been involved in the Navy's biggest IT projects in recent years, including the Next Generation Enterprise Network.
Cybersecurity
The Navy's cyber awakening
A departmentwide task force makes cyberspace a warfighting issue and attempts to synchronize disparate internal approaches to the challenge.
Acquisition
Navy leaders try to speed IT acquisition by reinterpreting the FAR
It takes at least six months to get from RFP to a contract award, and "six months is a lifetime when it comes to security," says the Navy's Victor Gavin.
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