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By Lauren C. Williams May 11, 2021 Lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration to appoint a dedicated space acquisition chief, raising concerns that lack of leadership in the area has led to costly programs and delayed scheduling on key systems, like GPS. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Chair Betty McCollum said the lack of a civilian acquisition chief for space operations was a significant problem and that the Air Force treated it like a "part-time job." "The Department of t...

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks issued a memo detailing DODs five "data decrees," establishing rules for creating and managing data as an enterprise resource and strategic asset.

By Justin Katz May 11, 2021 The Department of Homeland Security launched its 60-day workforce sprint with an aggressive campaign to hire more cybersecurity professionals. During remarks at a May 5 U.S. Chamber of Commerce event, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called the sprint, which began that same day, "the most significant hiring initiative that DHS has undertaken in its history." The new campaign aims to hire 200 cyber personnel by July 1, according to a DHS statement. Half of those "co...

By Justin Katz May 11, 2021 The FBI on Monday attributed the cyberattack against Colonial Pipeline to ransomware group Darkside. The attack, which was announced on Friday, led to the shutdown of fuel pipelines serving the East Coast of the United States as a precautionary measure. At a White House briefing on Monday, officials provided details on the government response. Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger described Darkside as "ransomware as a service" operation in which the malwar...

Letters from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Attorney General Merrick Garland and acting Defense Department Inspector General Sean O’Donnell asking for information, documents and, in the case of the Justice Department, a probe into possible anticompetitive behavior on the part of Amazon Web Services.

A complaint of political inference by former President Donald Trump in the Defense Department’s award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft in 2019 may now proceed.

Moving off legacy systems and into the cloud will support digital transformation efforts, Navy officials tell Congress.

Protecting the supply chain and CUI will only become more challenging as the number of defense contractors and the amount of data they house continues to increase.

By Lauren Williams May 05, 2021 While better data would help the Defense Department more effectively assess investments and risks over time, according to a watchdog official, several challenges exist. First off is the ability of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment to conduct data-driven oversight of the individual services’ weapons programs, Shelby Oakley, the director for contracting and national security acquisition for the Government Accountability Office, told t...

The vulnerability disclosure program, which was started from the Defense Digital Services 2016 Hack the Pentagon initiative, was initially restricted to public-facing websites and applications.