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By Lauren C. Williams Jan 13, 2021 The Defense Information Systems Agency will be absorbing the Defense Department’s Cloud Computing Program Office (CCPO) by the end of January, the agency's director said. DISA will become “the implementation arm for the DOD CIO’s cloud strategy,” said Vice Adm. Nancy Norton, DISA director and commander of the Joint Force Headquarters Department of Defense Information Network. "Whether that's a general-purpose cloud or a fit-for-purpose cloud, all of those offerings are available through DISA," Norton said during a virtual keynote presentation with AF...

Jan 13, 2021 Chief data officers (CDOs) in the Defense Department are opening up their data to take advantage of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools that help surface insights and improve decision-making. "Some of the legacy concepts around 'this is my data' just naturally change when we start using data to drive some of our senior leader-most decision-making forums," DOD CDO David Spirk said. "I think at the department level, we're blasting through some of those legacy cultural tendencies." Speaking at the ThoughtSpot Beyond 2020 Digital conference in December, Spirk said DOD�...

By Justin Katz Jan 13, 2021 Russia is the likely culprit of the widespread hack of U.S. networks, a White House task force concluded. Since the attack, analysts and some administration officials have suggested a Russian intelligence service is behind the attack on SolarWinds' Orion product, but the Jan. 5 statement from the Cyber Unified Coordination Group -- which includes the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- is the first time the federal government has explicitly attributed th...

By Lauren C. Williams Jan 13, 2021 The Defense Department and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced they plan to issue a challenge to accelerate development of software and telecom technologies for an open 5G stack ecosystem in support of DOD missions. According to a notice of inquiry posted by NTIA in the Federal Register, today’s open 5G stack community is diverse. Various organizations are working on different parts of the technology stack, and many implementations are custom built, which hinders interoperability.   For DOD, officials said the challeng...

With the Senate Armed Services Committee prepping to hear the nomination of retired Army General Lloyd Austin to serve as secretary of defense, some lawmakers are concerned about preserving civilian control of the U.S. military.