Digital Government

Air Force scrambling to protect cyber, other priorities from budget ax

Service eyes reorganization among other strategies to shield its top priorities from spending cuts.

Cybersecurity

7 ways to build your cybersecurity team

New report offers tips on recruiting and organizing internal cyber-staff.

Digital Government

Shooting at Navy's largest system command

Fatalities are confirmed as one or more gunmen open fire at the Navy Yard.

People

Obama nominates deputies for VA, Navy

If the nominees gain Senate approval, they will fill roles vacant since spring.

Cybersecurity

Is the U.S. ready for cyber war?

Syrian conflict could pose real-world test for nascent politics and programs.

Digital Government

Outlook bleak for fiscal 2014 defense funding

Jobs, military assets, R&D and technological superiority are all at risk.

Cybersecurity

The other Syria debate: cyber weapons

A cyberattack on Syria could crash enemy systems, interfere with air defenses and spare civilian lives.

Digital Government

More bad news for DOD audit-readiness

The latest in a string of audits and reports critiquing DOD financial management shows deficiencies in the department's risk-management planning.

People

Army swears in new cyber command leader

Lt. Gen. Edward Cardon takes over from Maj. Gen. Rhett Hernandez.

Cybersecurity

Even with disclosures, cyber-spending tough to track

Spending on cybersecurity is tucked away in many different budget line items, not always clearly labeled, and has come to pervade spending accounts and areas of attention throughout varying agency levels.

Cybersecurity

NIST cyber framework depends on you

The Institute is trying to maximize opportunities for public participation in developing its guidelines.

Cybersecurity

NIST issues preliminary cybersecurity draft framework

Sources say draft is a a 'solid gauge' of what the final framework is likely to look like.

People

Air Force nominee prepping at the Pentagon

SAIC executive Deborah Lee James, nominated to be the next Air Force Secretary, is preparing for her upcoming Senate confirmation hearing.

Modernization

JIE's murky progress raising questions

Complex systems, unclear timelines compound challenges for Pentagon's shared operational network.

Acquisition

New report reveals Army's troubled IT acquisition program

A program designed to fast-track network capabilities for troops is too often letting inferior technologies advance, GAO finds.

Digital Government

Getting the hang of mobility

Navy and Justice CIOs say savings and benefits are real -- though sometimes hard to measure.

People

VA touts progress on claims backlog; critics say it's not enough

Officials at the Veterans Affairs Department say the number of backlogged compensation claims has shrunk by 20 percent since its March peak, but critics are maintaining a full-court press on the White House to further reduce the VA's claims inventory.

Cybersecurity

If not Clapper, then who?

A reader confirms the sense of uncertainty not only over who should lead an intelligence review, but who should be involved.

Digital Government

Leadership of intell review group remains unclear

A high-level group of independent experts will review federal intelligence and communications technologies as a step in advancing the debate over U.S. surveillance activities, but who will lead the group and determine its membership remains unclear.

Modernization

DISA plans analytic cloud; looks to NSA's model

DISA's planned 'Acropolis' cloud environment will provide situational cybersecurity awareness, data analysis to detect threats.