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How the Defense Department's MilCloud 2.0 Effort is Evolving gokturk_06/Shutterstock email Some defense support agencies missed the deadline to complete migrating workloads to the Defense Department’s on-premise, cloud-based infrastructure services offering, according to a Defense Information Systems Agency official.  Per a 2018 memo, Defense agencies and DOD field activities, known as the DAFAs, were required to migrate all workloads to milCloud 2.0 by the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020. John Hale, DISA’s Cloud Portfolio office chief, told Nextgov in ...

February 1, 2021 3:25 PM By Chris Cornillie The Defense Department is considering pulling the plug on its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud program pending an upcoming decision in federal court, according to a new memorandum to Congress. The decision to cancel JEDI, the “focal point” of the Pentagon’s enterprise cloud strategy, may have far-reaching implications. Below, Bloomberg Government summarizes the latest developments in the ongoing legal proceedings against JEDI, and offers an analysis of the cancellation’s potential impa...

By Lauren C. Williams Oct 29, 2020 While the Defense Department plans to beef up its primary telework platform, the Commercial Virtual Remote (CVR) environment, by next summer, it is also working on a more secure version, according to John Sherman, DOD's principal deputy CIO. The Defense Department rolled out CVR earlier this year to accommodate teleworking in response to the pandemic. So far, over a million users are using it for telework, collaboration, calls and video conferences, but a permanent version of the Office 365-based capability is required to support higher-sensitivity, control...

Share this article Share this article HOUSTON, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BMC, a global leader celebrating 40 years of delivering software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, today announced the BMC Helix ITSM solution has been granted Provisional Authorization (PA) for Impact Level 4 (IL-4) from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The DISA Cloud Provisional Authorization process allows the Department of Defense (DoD) to authorize cloud service offerings that meet certain security requirements mandated by the level of the information the offering will support. DISA...

U.s. wants to have this battle played out. >> we're much more exposed. >> we have much more to loose. our entire economy depends on the internet functioning, that's not the case for north korea. >> how would you rate their abilities. >> when we look at them relative to other nations we've seen, they're low on the sophistication scale but their impact is high. >> on a scale of one to ten, where would you put the impact level? >> somewhere between eight and ten. >> that's high. >> they're ready to do all kind of brazen things. >> launching a cyber attack on our society is easier than launching a...