DES: Defense Enclave Services Will Be DISA’s ‘Crown Jewel’
DES "is an incredibly important endeavor,” said Danielle Metz, acting deputy CIO for information enterprise at the Defense Information Systems Agency. “It is one of the crown jewels."
DISA Puts Trust in Zero Trust With New Strategy, Testing Lab
“Zero Trust [is] where we see a lot of departmental capabilities moving over the next 12 to 18 months,” said John Hale, chief of cloud services at DISA
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
DISA Unveils New Strategic Plan
This updated strategic plan focuses on cyber defense, the cloud, and enterprise solutions
Starting Dec. 1, Cybersecurity Is No Longer Optional
"This is the start of a new day in the Department of Defense where cybersecurity, as we’ve been saying for years is foundational for acquisitions, we’re putting our money where our mouth is. We mean it,” Katie Arrington says.
DISA: Cloud-Based Browsing Will Save $300M
Instead of users connecting directly to websites, the new Cloud-Based Internet Isolation (CBII) system acts as a middleman, reducing bandwidth and blocking malware.
North Korea’s Hackers Target Tech Secrets
The alert “should raise concern for those simply focused on China or Russia as the core threat to our national security,” says Eric Noonan, CEO of security firm CyberSheath.
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Why enterprise IT modernization matters now – and how to “delight by design”
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
NSA Warns Companies China Is Exploiting 25 Unpatched Vulnerabilities
The NSA cannot mandate patching on its own, but the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) allows the Pentagon to penalize companies in its supply chain that fail to adequately protect their networks.
Soldiers Become Another Node In DoD’s Internet Of Things: ENVG-B
A soldier wearing the ENVG-B can look through binoculars, turn on the camera in their rifle’s sight, and then point that sight around a corner to see and shoot, without exposing anything more than their hands or the rifle.
Industry Starts Work On Weapons That Can See; Autonomy Comes Next
“Should we bias training data towards the weird stuff?,” asks Patrick Biltgen of Perspecta. “If there’s a war, we’re almost certain to see weird things we’ve never seen before.”
Vendors Pitch Army On Hybrid Clouds Beyond JEDI
“Relying on one public cloud alone locks you in, locks into only one company’s innovation,” said IBM CEO Arvind Krishna at the 2020 Association of the United States Army conference. “It’s a monocloud.”
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
New Pentagon Strategy To Share Data Like Ammunition
ALBUQUERQUE: The new Department of Defense Data Strategy is designed to flatten the obstacles — technical and cultural — that prevent easy data sharing across the military services to enable the Pentagon’s push towards Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2). Getting the right data, into the right hands, in a timely and useful manner, without any […]
Microsoft Positions Itself To Win Space Data Market With Azure Orbital
Offering Ground-Stations-as-a-Service means customers are only obliged to pay for the amount of time they actually need to use on the station.
Fewer Threats, More Bandwidth: DISA Awards $199M For Cloud Browsing
Leaving the browser and its history in a virtual environment spread across any number of servers makes it harder for adversaries to target the military's actual computers or tablets.
NSA Prepares Unclassified Threat Reports — From Home
“In small ways we’re redefining who we are as an agency,” said Wendy Noble, executive director of the NSA.