Page 8 - Andrew Eversden News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

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 needs. Industry is preparing for that reality. With the nascent concept of connecting the best sens...

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. These recommendations come from the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, created by Congress i...

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 statement from Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner signals that the new leader of the Pentagon’s combat...

The military intelligence agency named 144 companies that can receive pieces of the contact.

Host of challenges await next Pentagon CIO February 19 The Pentagon's 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 department’s cybersecurity approach, which has come under question after a major federal government h...