Cybersecurity

Stricter supply chain enforcement is coming

The Defense Department wants to make contractors' cyber maturity a more important consideration before contracts are awarded.

Acquisition

GSA launches Netcents-2 replacement

A new five-year blanket purchase agreement will replace Air Force's expiring IT hardware and software commodity contract. 03/07/2019 Read More
Cloud

Army to create cloud program office

The Army is gaining momentum in its overhaul of legacy systems, starting with new cloud and enterprise-as-a-service pilots and a new data strategy. 03/05/2019 Read More
Cybersecurity

DOD's accelerated cyber hiring hits snags

Lack of hiring personnel and the complex security clearance process is slowing down implementation as the Cyber Excepted Service expands. 02/27/2019 Read More
IT Infrastructure

Army turns to category management in new IT approach

Deputy CIO declares 'no new money' for IT in new approach and is turning to category management can help. 02/27/2019 Read More
Connected Warrior

Pentagon's estimated weapons software sustainment spending is incomplete

The Department of Defense's estimated $828 million spend weapons systems software sustainment in fiscal year 2018 may be a little off. 02/27/2019 Read More
Defense IT

Army selects NIH contract vehicle for new enterprise capability

NITAAC gets the nod for procuring support services. 02/27/2019 Read More
Analysis

Conflict-of-interest charge threatens to derail JEDI

The Defense Department is reconsidering whether conflict-of-interest charges had an impact on the integrity of the contract. 02/26/2019 Read More
Unmanned Systems

DARPA trying to make autonomous systems more trustworthy

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants autonomous systems that can evaluate how well they're doing a specific task and explain that to their human partners. 02/25/2019 Read More
Cloud

DOD acknowledges possible conflict of interest on JEDI procurement

The issue involves an individual who worked for both AWS and that Defense Digital Service. 02/25/2019 Read More
Defense

DISA works to make JRSS faster, more reliable

After a scathing internal evaluation, the Defense Information Systems Agency said it is working to resolve latency and reliability issues in the Joint Regional Security Stacks program. 02/22/2019 Read More
Opinion

Is it the end of the line for CIOs in DOD?

The Section 809 report offers an opportunity to reflect on the future of federal agency tech leaders, but reports on the impending demise of CIOs at DOD may be exaggerated. 02/20/2019 Read More
Cloud

JEDI protest paused over conflict-of-interest questions

The allegations stem from the participation of two individuals in the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure procurement with strong ties to Amazon Web Services. 02/19/2019 Read More