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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 Department's 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 you think that the money's always going to be there, you don't have as much of an incentive," Smith ...

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 eye protection, company officials said. Teams led by Leidos and Charles River Analytics were also awa...

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 standing up, I've got five service components provided by each of the services to the combatant comm...

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 working hard to ensure that the collaboration doesn’t fade when CVR sunsets in July. Les Benito, dir...

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 was done when exploiting SolarWinds software and flaws in Microsoft Office 365.   “Targeting cl...