Cybersecurity
NIST's dream: Integrating security into design
New guidelines offer best practices for information systems security.
Modernization
DISA director: Industry has a role in Pentagon cloud
While the Snowden and Manning leaks may have underlined the importance of the Joint Information Environment, it is unclear if they accelerated the timetable for completion.
Cybersecurity
Lockheed looks to open standards
The standardized software is intended to boost the sharing of cyber-threat information through automation.
Modernization
Study: Pentagon needs strategic approach to UAVs
A Center for Strategic and International Studies report notes decreased R&D spending at the same time several other countries are gearing up their own drone programs.
Cybersecurity
Defense authorization bill boosts cybersecurity
A House panel’s version of the annual defense policy measure would authorize increased cyber funding and require the administration to report back to Congress on a range of IT-related issues.
People
Q&A with Rep. Mac Thornberry
The Texas Republican tasked with overhauling DOD acquisition talked with FCW about his concerns and priorities.
Cybersecurity
Sending cyber sense down the Navy chain of command
“Pockets of non-understanding” still plague the lower echelons of the Navy hierarchy when it comes to cybersecurity, says Vice Adm. Jan Tighe.
Acquisition
Balderson to lead Northrop Grumman contracting
Diane Balderson was most recently head of contracting for the Naval Air Systems Command.
Cybersecurity
Lawmaker voices concern about possible DIA nominee
California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter takes issue with Lt. Gen. Mary Legere’s handling of the Army's Distributed Common Ground System.
Modernization
Army personnel database picks up where Pentagon left off
The Army's new pay and personnel system grew out of DoD's decision to cancel a department-wide database that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs called a disaster.
People
Linking research to real life (and to real-world budgets)
With a doctorate in neuroscience and a talent for finding funding, Ivy Estabrooke personifies the Office of Naval Research's straddling of science and military operations.
Acquisition
Pentagon ponders making IT subject to same rules as weapons
Defense Undersecretary Frank Kendall and Sen. Joe Donnelly used an Armed Services Committee hearing to discuss the possibility of using the same cost guidelines for IT and weapons systems.
People
Pentagon: IT departures won't disrupt relations with industry
A DOD spokesman said there was no timetable for replacing outgoing CIO Teri Takai.
Cybersecurity
DOE releases cyber procurement guidelines
The nonbinding rules are aimed at reducing vulnerabilities in the power sector's procurement process.
Digital Government
Takai to leave DOD
CIO's May departure will add to the Pentagon's growing list of senior IT and management vacancies.
Cybersecurity
Commerce bureaus flunk cyber test
The department's inspector general used automated software to direct suspicious traffic at the public-facing websites of five offices; only one analyzed and moved to block the threat.
Acquisition
Improved Pentagon acquisition requires tolerance of risk
Overhauling the defense acquisition process is a national security imperative in tight budget times, argues a consultant and former Marine major general.
Digital Government
INSCOM points toward greater use of open standards
The Intelligence and Security Command is the Army’s one-stop-shop for intelligence, and the platform for its recently deployed geospatial database runs on non-proprietary technology.
Modernization
TASC taps ‘first federal CIO’
Mark Forman joins the defense contractor as vice president for IT services and cloud initiatives.
Cybersecurity
Increased trust boosts Pentagon-industry info sharing
In the seven years since the creation of the Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Information Assurance program, contractors have become less skittish about what sharing can do to their bottom lines, a Pentagon official says.
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