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By GCN Staff May 25, 2021 Recent demonstrations have shown that commercial cloud computing can be used to process and securely deliver actionable information from low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to military ground stations, command centers or direct to warfighters on the battlefield. As part of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations program, Microsoft and Ball Aerospace demonstrated that data and images from distributed constellations of LEO satellites could be quickly processed, analyzed and distributed using Microsoft's Azur...

By Aly Fathy May 25, 2021 Within seconds after reaching a city, earthquakes can cause immense destruction: Houses crumble, high-rises turn to rubble, people and animals are buried in the debris. In the immediate aftermath of such carnage, emergency personnel desperately search for any sign of life in what used to be a home or office. Often, however, they find that they were digging in the wrong pile of rubble, and precious time has passed. Imagine if rescuers could see through the debris to spot survivors under the rubble, measure their vital signs and even generate images of the victims. Th...

By Stuart McIrvine May 25, 2021 Whatever normal looked like in March 2020, it sure doesn’t look like that now. Just about everything in our lives has changed, from how we educate our kids to how we work, travel, bank and buy groceries. It has pushed IT departments to create widespread changes in an incredibly short time, and nowhere is this pressure being felt more than in government IT shops. Yet, even as local, state and federal agencies have heroically changed course to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of Americans who need services, how those agencies maintain data security must a...

Don Troshynski CTO, 128 Technology, Juniper Networks Note: FCW Editor-in-Chief Troy K. Schneider led the roundtable discussion. The April 13 gathering was underwritten by Juniper Networks' 128 Technology, but both the substance of the discussion and the recap on these pages are strictly editorial products. Neither the sponsor nor any of the roundtable participants had input beyond their April 13 comments. A group of federal IT leaders recently gathered to explore approaches to IT infrastructure challenges. The discussion was on the record but not for individual attribution (see sidebar for th...

By Chris Riotta May 23, 2021 Tucked inside President Joe Biden's cybersecurity executive order is a plan to modernize and streamline federal procurement policy, which experts said lacked critical funding and resources to adequately implement within its ambitious timeframe. The order in part seeks to overhaul a current patchwork of regulations and guidelines for the private sector and commercial marketplace around federal contractor cybersecurity requirements. This plan will require agencies and contractors to address numerous issues at once under short timeframes, from developing standards fo...