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The Defense Department issued memos and permission letters for personnel working in the Washington, D.C. region as local and state governments' stay-at-home orders go into effect.
It's unclear whether emergency measures to stem coronavirus' spread will affect DOD's roll out of its unified cybersecurity standard, but mitigation efforts will likely rely on teleconferencing for training. 03/18/2020 Read More
The Defense Department wants some time to it “reconsider” parts of its decision to award its $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft and has asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for a 120-day pause. 03/18/2020 Read More
The Defense Department expanded its travel ban with new restrictions on domestic travel civilian and military personnel amid the coronavirus outbreak. 03/14/2020 Read More
The Defense Department is restricting non-essential travel abroad for servicemembers and the civilian workforce. 03/14/2020 Read More
David Norquist, the deputy defense secretary, said the Army's new augmented reality headset that enhances soldiers' situational awareness could see significant delays without on-time funding. 03/11/2020 Read More
Conflicting interpretations of “highly accessible storage” are at the center of a federal judge’s ruling granting Amazon Web Services a preliminary injunction that freezes task orders on the Defense Department’s massive Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative cloud contract. 03/10/2020 Read More
Civilian employees at the Defense Department are urged to telework, teleconference and use leave when necessary while other agencies are formulating their own workforce policy responses. 03/10/2020 Read More
More personnel may be needed as the organization's election security role expands and cybersecurity threats evolve. 03/10/2020 Read More
The White House has diverted billions of Pentagon dollars for border wall funding at the cost of a new information systems facility at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. 03/04/2020 Read More
A key Republican lawmaker joined Democratic colleagues in opposing a policy that could spell doom for civilian unions at the Defense Department. 03/04/2020 Read More
The lead Republican for the House's defense committee hopes appropriators will see the wisdom in making funds for buying technology and research more flexible. 03/04/2020 Read More
China spent the year targeting telecommunications infrastructure to feed its spying and IP theft, while Iran shifted to target defense contractors in the latter half of the year. 03/04/2020 Read More
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