DISA pushes to slash duplication with expansion of JELA program
Up until now DISA was able to create four completed JELAs in the span of 10 years, so creating three more in three years, as is DISA's goal, may prove to be tricky.
Space Force ‘transitioning’ SATCOM contracts from DISA
Col. Rich Kniseley said the current plan is to set up a new Space Force working capital fund for buying commercial SATCOM, initially worth about $120 million, on Oct. 1.
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Powering the future: Securing America with domestically made microelectronics
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
Full house: Google to be final JWCC partner authorized for Secret-level cloud work in 2025
Lt. Col. John Hall, DISA's point man on the Pentagon's massive cloud project, told Breaking Defense that having all four cloud providers at Impact Level-6 helps prevent vendor lock and keeps the companies "honest."
Show me the data: DISA leaders outline do’s and don’ts on industry AI pitches
“Don’t do [AI] just to say that you have it,” said DISA CTO Steve Wallace. “We’ve seen a lot of vendors who claim to have it, and when you peel back the onion, there’s not a whole lot of depth.”
DISA grapples with mounting ‘technology debt’ amid evolving cyber threats
“We need to make sure that technical debt is not pre-framed as just cost. There's a lot more that comes with technical debt. There's people, there's operational aspect, there's efficiencies," warned Caroline Bean, director of joint enterprise services at DISA.
DISA eyes ‘aggressive’ goal of automating 75 percent of cyber capabilities
“The only way that we can actually do our job with the pacing threat of China is to actually add that automation capability," said Brian Hermann, cybersecurity and analytics director at DISA.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
How to tame your chatbot: secure containers, data diets, & more
The Defense Department wants to explore Large Language Models for everything from paperwork to war plans – without being misled by hallucinations or having sensitive information sucked up by commercial LLMs hungry for training data.
‘DISA Next’ strategy prioritizes common IT, enterprise cloud and zero-trust across DoD
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s five-year plan includes the ambitious goal to build a global network “unconstrained by bandwidth [and] impervious to denial” by hostile forces.
SES to buy Intelsat, further shrinking SATCOM gene pool
Space industry analyst Todd Harrison said the $3.1 billion purchase is latest in a "shakeup" in the satellite communications landscape following the proliferation of LEO birds.
‘The bad day’: DISA’s forthcoming strategy prepares for wartime coms
"It’s great to have internet day to day in peacetime," said Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, "but it’s more imperative to have it when bullets are flying.”
The questions that warfighters ask the most are now answered with data analytics
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
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Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
DISA soon prototyping AI ‘concierge’ for agency
“Right now we’re going through dealing with some of the security challenges,” Steve Wallace told Breaking Defense. “So I’m hoping the first half of this calendar year. The sooner … the better."
Getting to zero trust: The Pentagon’s effort to put data security first in 2023
Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Sherman set the tone early in the year by telling Breaking Defense a major focus over 2023 would be aiming for baseline, targeted zero trust within four years.
DoD’s new cloud-based visualization tool targets electromagnetic spectrum
"What this does today ... is that it provides the ability to bring a number of different information feeds, a number of different data sources together in one picture," Kevin Laughlin, deputy director for the program executive office for spectrum, told reporters.