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How commercial satellite constellations fit into the Army’s future tactical network designs 4 hours ago U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, assemble a satellite antenna in 2019 in Slovenia. The Army is looking for smaller satellite terminals for low-Earth and medium-Earth orbit capabilities. (Paolo Bovo/U.S. Army) JOINT BASE MYER‐HENDERSON HALL, Va. — The U.S. Army will begin implementing advanced satellite communications...

Cloud computing speeds up new military software Army Futures Commands Software Factory, newly opened in Texas. (Luke J. Allen/U.S. Army) At the recently launched Army Software Factory in Austin, Texas, platform product manager Capt. James Cho uses cloud computing to speed software development. Coders — who create software for anything from streamlining warehouse operations to improving soldiers’ battlefield performance — take advantage of the cloud’s shared storage, databases and ne...

A civilian cybersecurity reserve corps is needed for the Pentagon and DHS, lawmakers from both parties say (scyther5/Getty Images) A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing to create a civilian reserve corps of cybersecurity experts to help defend national security interests, amid concerns about growing digital threats to public and private networks and infrastructure. The Civilian Cybersecurity Reserve pilot program would bolster the workforces at the Defense Department and Department of ...

Top general: Access provided by enterprise cloud needed for JADC2 10 hours ago JADC2 leader: The U.S. Department of Defense needs an enterprise cloud to enable multidomain operations. (Master Sgt. Ken Hammond/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The general tasked with delivering the Pentagon’s future battlefield network said that the new joint war-fighting concept needs an enterprise cloud to provide wide accessibility. A cloud for use across the DoD would extend the access that a basic clou...

How the DoD’s future war-fighting needs are shaping cloud vendors’ products 5 hours ago Cloud vendors are coming up with new ideas to provide access for any location, such as aboard a ship. In this picture, a sailor on the amphibious assault ship USS America troubleshoots a server in 2017. (Mass Communication Spc. Vance Hand/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Defense Department’s expectation that future wars will be fought across dispersed, disconnected environments is driving changes to its cloud ...

In a cyberattack disaster, DoD needs backup squad to fix networks, restart critical systems Mark Pomerleau (Capt. Benjamin Hughes/Maryland National Guard) WASHINGTON — With a growing number of cyber breaches, lawmakers and outside experts are pushing to increase the role of the National Guard and National Reserve if a catastrophic cyberattack were to occur. The idea is to create a special cyber reserve force for crises, and to do a better job of using the cyber expertise of Guard members. ...

DISA director favors outsourcing IT services to contractors March 12 Then-Maj. Gen. Robert Skinner of the Air Force speaks at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo. Skinner was recently promoted to a three star and took over the Defense Information Systems Agency. (Dave Grim/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The new director of the Defense Information Systems Agency said Friday in his first public appearance that he’s a proponent of IT as a service. The sta...

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Host of challenges await next Pentagon CIO February 19 The Pentagons next chief information officer must prioritize implementation of the digital modernization strategy, experts told C4ISRNET. (Master Sgt. Ken Hammond/U.S. Air Force) The list of IT issues awaiting the U.S. Defense Department’s next chief information officer is filled with pressing concerns to harness the power of emerging technologies and defend the military against those capabilities. On that list: Reevaluate the depa...