Here's everything you need to know about the spectrum battle between DoD and industry, which offices control the issues, and which way the Trump administration may be leaning.
Sherman will serve as the next Dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
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“We’ve heard you loud and clear on this within the DoD. I’m not going to say this is going to solve every bit of it, but it’s going to help us a bit,” Pentagon CIO John Sherman said.
DoD officials met with a key industry group this week to outline a framework the Pentagon hopes can kickstart a discussion on a spectrum management program.
Sherman said that there is no timeframe for when the department will release a request for information for JWCC 2.0 or when the effort will roll out next year, but added that DoD was “firmly committed to multi-cloud, multi-vendor, and this is what we’re going to be doing going forward.”
The strategy for each service and other defense organizations is meant to align with the Pentagon's aim of getting to "targeted" zero trust by 2027.
As “dirty” RF and contested environments proliferate, autonomy increasingly depends on resilient positioning.
A recently released memo encourages for all OSD components and "defense agencies and field activities" to use JWCC "for all available offerings to procure future enterprise cloud computing capabilities and services."
Many of the themes presented in the strategy are familiar to what officials have talked about in the past when it comes to the department’s cyberspace operations, but full details are classified.
As part of the takeover, Sherman said his office will look at expanding the Pentagon’s 5G pilots to additional DoD installations and added he’ll be looking specifically at open radio access network, or O-RAN, pilots.
A leak from a “trusted insider who has gone through the background investigation" and been given access to top-secret level capabilities is “a tough one that we have to be able to put measures to get after," DoD CIO John Sherman said.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
"Now is the time to drive the dramatic change necessary to make cyber threats far more difficult and far more costly for our adversaries," DoD CIO John Sherman told Breaking Defense.
“This strategy utilizes four human capital pillars - Identification, Recruitment, Development and Retention - to identify and group cyber workforce challenges,” according to slides.
In an exclusive interview with Breaking Defense, DoD Chief Information Officer John Sherman shares his top priority areas for fiscal 2023.
“I'm not gonna do anything capriciously or just with a sledgehammer here,” DoD CIO John Sherman said, as he seeks to "make sure the government is getting the best value for our dollar and the very best mission outcome."