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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published requirements that can help organizations protect controlled unclassified information against nation-state backed threats.

The two leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence say the governments response to the hack so far has been "disjointed and disorganized."

By Lauren C. Williams Feb 10, 2021 The U.S. Space Force has begun transferring more than a thousand cyber professionals into its ranks as of Feb. 1 and plans to start recruiting talent from across the military branches this year. "There is a spectrum of threats that are out there -- everything from reversible jamming of satellites...and theres cyber threats," Gen. John Raymond, the Chief of Space Operations told reporters Feb. 3, "which is why its so important for us to have those cyber profess...

New approach to Ground-based Midcourse Defense confronts our other enemy By: Maj. Gen. Francis G. Mahon (ret.) and Brig. Gen. John Shapland (ret.)   February 5 A threat-representative ICBM target launches from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands on March 25, 2019. It was successfully intercepted by two long-range Ground-based Interceptors launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (Courtesy of the U....

The Government Accountability Office says the State Department failed to justify the scope and organizational placement of a new office that was greenlighted in the final days of the Trump administration.

The Defense Department’s MilCloud 2.0 contract now gives Defense Information Services Agency and other non-combat DOD agencies access to cloud services from Amazon Web Services.

By Justin Katz Feb 03, 2021 Einstein is the Department of Homeland Security’s intrusion detection system. It observes traffic flowing in and out of federal networks, allowing the government to target threats identified by a database of known malware. That makes it unlikely Einstein ever could have detected the malware implanted into SolarWinds Orion because it was delivered to agency networks through a trusted update. However, overhauling Einstein to identify unknown or zero-day threats would...

By Lauren C. Williams Feb 03, 2021 The Navy has released nearly 60 recommendations on combatting systemic racism and sexism in the ranks as part of a long awaited report on diversity and inclusion. Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Michael Gilday, ordered the Task Force One Navy report, which spans 141 pages with 56 recommendations, following the mass protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd last summer. Gilday said the Navy had failed to adequately address systemic racism and ...

How The 2003 Iraq War Permanently Changed America’s Future In the case of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it became apparent after the first few months that the war was not working out as its framers had envisioned. Heres What You Need To Remember: The biggest change likely comes in a reassertion of the traditional reticence of the American public towards foreign military intervention, a reticence that waned after the fall of the Soviet Union, but has again become a major factor in the making of ...

By Justin Katz Jan 20, 2021 Donald Trump issued an executive order on the final night of his presidency aimed at forcing cloud providers to capture more complete records about foreign customers. "Foreign actors use United States [cloud services] for a variety of tasks in carrying out malicious cyber-enabled activities, which makes it extremely difficult for United States officials to track and obtain information ... before these foreign actors transition to replacement infrastructure," accordin...