Defense

Thornberry puts DISA on the chopping block

House Armed Services Committee chairman's reform bill calls for a 25 percent cut in back-office spending and the elimination of seven supporting agencies.

Defense IT

Army announces long-awaited DCGS contract

After years of protests and legal wrangling, Palantir is finally part of the Army's battlefield intel analytics system. 03/13/2018 Read More
IT Infrastructure

DOD secures IT support for Joint Navigation Warfare Center

LinQuest wins a, $99.2 million contract to support a Defense Department-run center used for navigation warfare functions. 03/13/2018 Read More
Cloud

Service heads demur on DOD's cloud plan

At a D.C. defense policy event, the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force skirted the issue of the Pentagon's centralized cloud procurement strategy. 03/12/2018 Read More
Unmanned Systems

Air Force awards $961M drone support contract

AECOM’s URS Federal arm wins a $961 million contract to help the Air Force operate and maintain unmanned aircraft. 03/12/2018 Read More
Cloud

What to make of DOD's latest cloud moves

Speculation is still swirling about the implications of the draft solicitation for JEDI -- and about why a separate agreement for cloud-migration services was scaled back so dramatically. 03/10/2018 Read More
Defense IT

Congress grills NBIB over clearance backlog

Senators expressed deep frustration about the government's lack of progress reducing the backlog of 700,000 pending security clearance requests, with some threatening to overhaul the process completely. 03/08/2018 Read More
Cloud

Defense Digital Service to build provisioning system for JEDI

The Defense Digital Service is building a tool to automate the complex back-end business processes that accompany commercial cloud services. 03/08/2018 Read More
Cybersecurity

Air Force plans to convert IT staff into cyber force

The Air Force hopes to solve the cyber worker shortage by redefining traditional IT jobs, starting at seven bases. 03/08/2018 Read More
Cloud

DOD outlines vision JEDI cloud contract

The timeline for a department-wide commercial cloud solution is aggressive, but Pentagon officials say deeper in-house expertise and better internal cooperation can get them to an award this year. 03/07/2018 Read More
Connected Warrior

Preparing for the internet of battlefield things

The Army Research Lab is exploring technology that enhances collaboration between autonomous agents and human warriors on the battlefield. 03/06/2018 Read More
Congress

Senators demand answers on Russian cyber interference

Lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee continue to press the administration for a cyber warfare doctrine and action on Russian election interference. 03/06/2018 Read More
Cloud

MilCloud 2.0 gets IL5 authorization

Defense Information Systems Agency has granted DOD Provisional Authorization for Impact Level 5 for CSRA's milCloud 2.0. 03/06/2018 Read More