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By Justin Katz May 05, 2021 The Department of Homeland Security and the White House are putting the spotlight on combatting ransomware, actively developing plans to confront the issue. DHS has assembled a task force with representatives from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Secret Service, Coast Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcements Homeland Security Investigations unit, according to Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The new task force is part of the secretary...

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), chairman for the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced that the committee would delay marking up the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act due to "uncertainty" in White House budget delivery.

By Lauren C. Williams May 05, 2021 Almost all Defense Department personnel who have sought student loan debt forgiveness through a federal program managed by the Department of Education have been denied -- a trend that, if unchanged, could make it even harder to recruit and retain tech talent. According to a recent Government Accountability Office report, 94% of DOD employees, civilian and military, were denied student loan debt forgiveness through the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (...

By Lauren C. Williams Apr 28, 2021 President Joe Biden has nominated Heidi Shyu, former assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, to lead the Defense Departments tech investments as undersecretary for research and engineering. Shyu chairs the board for manufacturing company Plasan North America, leads her own consulting firm and has held several executive positions at Raytheon. As the Armys acquisition executive, Shyu worked to streamline the Armys program exec...

By Lauren C. Williams Apr 27, 2021 Divesting of legacy systems to make way for new technologies is expensive and at the heart of the Defense Departments budget debate. But even when modernization makes fiscal sense, there are key dilemmas DOD and Congress will have to overcome. For House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), that, in some ways, comes down to the right incentives for both those inside the Pentagon and defense contractors. "You have to be incentivized. And if y...

By Nick Wakeman Apr 27, 2021 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing new fabrics and protective equipment that can reduce the risk of chemical and biological threats to service members and responders. FLIR Systems was awarded a contract potentially worth more than $20 million under DARPA’s Personalized Protective Biosystems program. Under the PPB award, FLIR will rapidly develop fabrics with embedded catalysts and chemicals that can be incorporated into boots, gloves and e...

By Lauren C. Williams Apr 27, 2021 U.S. Space Command is launching a dedicated joint cyber center for better integration with U.S. Cyber Command, said its commander Gen. James Dickinson. "We are standing up a joint cyber center within the command as we speak," the general testified during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with the U.S. Strategic Command and Space Command to review the fiscal 2022 budget request and Future Years Defense program. "I also have, as a result of the command ...

Apr 27, 2021 The Defense Department launched the Commercial Virtual Remote environment to accommodate telework during the COVID-19 pandemic. It quickly became the largest Microsoft Teams deployment in the world and brought department-wide collaboration tools to DOD after years of less successful attempts. DOD employees have embraced the tools and the silo-spanning interactions they enable, but CVR was always intended to be a temporary fix. Therefore, the Defense Information Systems Agency is wo...

By Justin Katz Apr 27, 2021 The Department of Homeland Security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI on Monday issued a new advisory describing ways to counter tactics and techniques used by Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, the attackers behind the intrusion involving SolarWinds.   The advisory describes how the agencies noticed the SVR shift its tactics from using malware to targeting the cloud and email servers as a way to gather information, which...

The White House is suspending the two interagency groups tasked with managing the governments response to the cybersecurity incidents involving SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange, citing improving trends in patching.