Cyber
Senior administration officials say multiple government agencies are working to distribute information to industry about the ransomware attack that led to the shutdown of a key natural gas pipeline for the East Coast.
05/11/2021
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Congress
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), chairman for the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced that the committee would delay marking up the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act due to "uncertainty" in White House budget delivery.
05/05/2021
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IT Infrastructure
Moving off legacy systems and into the cloud will support digital transformation efforts, Navy officials tell Congress.
05/05/2021
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Cloud
Letters from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Attorney General Merrick Garland and acting Defense Department Inspector General Sean O’Donnell asking for information, documents and, in the case of the Justice Department, a probe into possible anticompetitive behavior on the part of Amazon Web Services.
05/05/2021
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Cyber
Almost all Defense Department personnel who have sought student loan debt forgiveness have been denied -- a trend that, if unchanged, could make it even harder to recruit and retain tech talent.
05/05/2021
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AI & Analytics
While better data would help the Defense Department more effectively assess investments and risks over time, according to a watchdog official, several challenges exist.
05/05/2021
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Cyber
The Department of Homeland Security and the White House are putting the spotlight on combatting ransomware, actively developing plans to confront the issue.
05/05/2021
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Cloud
A complaint of political inference by former President Donald Trump in the Defense Department’s award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft in 2019 may now proceed.
05/05/2021
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Cyber
The vulnerability disclosure program, which was started from the Defense Digital Service's 2016 Hack the Pentagon initiative, was initially restricted to public-facing websites and applications.
05/05/2021
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Connected Warrior
With more than 80% of Airmen ages 18 to 35 identifying as gamers, the Air Force developed a scalable framework and unified competition structure for players.
05/05/2021
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COMMENTARY
Protecting the supply chain and CUI will only become more challenging as the number of defense contractors and the amount of data they house continues to increase.
05/04/2021
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Leadership
The White House announced it would nominate Heidi Shyu, former assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, to be DOD's undersecretary for research and engineering.
04/28/2021
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