

DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner also provided an update on the Pentagon’s sprawling cloud effort, saying 13 task orders have gone out, totaling some $200 million.
By Jaspreet Gill
In March, DISA announced Booz had produced a prototype of Thunderdome and laid “a zero-trust technology foundation.”
By Jaspreet Gill
Updating policy related to identity, credentialing and access management, or ICAM, will be a key step when integrating partners into CJADC2, according to a DISA official.
By Jaspreet Gill
“Workforce 2025 is, at its heart, a strategy designed to enhance the skills and talents of current employees while ensuring DISA onboards new talent and invests in the professional development of both throughout their careers,” DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner said.
By Jaspreet Gill
“We decided to go with J codes for the fact of better aligning with our combatant commands, better aligning with the Joint Staff, and as a Combat Support Agency, it just makes sense,” Lt. Gen. Skinner said.
By Jaspreet Gill
In a sign of how ubiquitous AI has become recently, DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner began his keynote not speaking himself, but with a generative AI that cloned his voice and delivered the start of his remarks.
By Jaspreet Gill
Lumen is not just replacing aged transport pipes for the DoD, it is transitioning and transforming network capabilities for better speed, latency, availability, affordability, and security.
By Breaking Defense
According to a DISA spokesperson, each big-name JWCC vendor received an equal task order, with the value of $3.8 million for some early testing of the concept.
By Jaspreet Gill
“Where we touch them, we are working hard to transform them,” says Lumen of its network modernization programs for the Defense Department.
By Breaking Defense
“That’s a capability we really don’t have in the department – an enterprise top secret cloud environment,” DISA’s Sharon Woods said.
By Jaspreet Gill
“Thunderdome has confirmed its potential by laying a zero-trust technology foundation, but the work doesn’t end there,” Christopher Barnhurst, DISA deputy director, said.
By Jaspreet Gill
Countdown to 2027: Where to Start Implementing the Zero Trust Strategy for the Department of Defense
Defense Department organizations have four years to deploy seven pillars, including 45 core capabilities of zero trust.
By Breaking Defense
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Pentagon’s annual weapon test report reverses classification, details major program challenges
The report, without “controlled unclassified information” redactions, discusses concerns with major weapons programs from ships to planes to hypersonic missiles.
By Jaspreet Gill, Theresa Hitchens and Justin Katz
JWCC is a multi-vendor, multi-cloud follow up to the infamous single-source Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, which was worth up to $10 billion and canceled in 2021.
By Jaspreet Gill