“I hear more about IT revolution than evolution these days, but I think IT is more evolution,” DIA CIO Doug Cossa said.
By Brad D. WilliamsMILSATCOM for the most critical no-fail missions
With multiple nuclear-capable threats and space itself being a contested domain, assured and protected MILSATCOM are more critical than ever before.
“The ultimate goal is understanding exactly what is happening on the network, who is connecting, what is connected, and what are those devices and users doing on the network so you can make sure that, where connection is necessary for a mission, it’s available but also that it’s secure,” Forescout’s Dean Hullings said.
By Brad D. Williams
“I have a mantra of ‘I want to kill to the [Common Access Card] as the primary authentication mechanism for the department’,” Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner said. “Industry has better authentication, and it’s not just two-factor, it’s truly multi-factor authentication.”
By Brad D. Williams
The two new supercomputers, according to the company, will provide DoD with a combined total of over 365,000 cores, more than 775 terabytes of memory, and a total of 47 petabytes of high-performance storage.
By Brad D. Williams
“Having an exquisite solution is really exciting, but if it takes 10 years to bring to bear for the warfighter, and it’s limited to only a few platforms, it’s much less compelling,” Northrop’s Ian Reynolds observed.
By Brad D. Williams
Rep. Langevin criticized the 2022 budget overview for its brevity, opacity, and appearance as “nearly a carbon copy” of the 2021 document. “If DoD were a high school student, I would have called [the 2022 budget overview] plagiarism.”
By Brad D. Williams
DISA, using automation, is reducing the time it takes to deploy mission applications in DoD cloud from a year, months, or weeks to hours.
By Brad D. Williams
Integrating commercial off-the-shelf computing on military platforms and how to make it work
The systems may be off-the-shelf, but the packaging for integration on vehicles and ships provides cradle-to-grave resiliency.
