Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. According to a new summary of 21 different unclassified audits and reports, the Department of Defense has deficiencies in seven of eight critical cybersecurity metrics. The cybersecurity summary by the DOD Office of Inspector General, dated Dec. 13, states that despite past warnings, the DOD continues to fall […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity has released a report that outlines six imperatives to ensure security of the digital economy. The commission said in the report published Thursday that the government and industry should work together to defend and safeguard digital networks and the information infrastructure, as well as […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2016 — Bringing vital technology innovations from commercial developers to fighting forces more quickly is a challenge that the Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx, has been working to solve since its inception last year. Today, it shared its model for success […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2016 — Two initiatives were rolled out today to strengthen the cyber security environment in the Defense Department and the Army, DoD officials announced. The first initiative is part of the “Hack the Pentagon” program that debuted last spring, officials said. Called the Vulnerability Disclosure Policy, […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2016 — The public-private cybersecurity partnership between private companies and U.S. Cyber Command and other federal agencies has been uneven so far despite some fledgling success, but collaboration is critical given growing threats to everyone from cyberspace, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command said here yesterday.  Navy Adm. […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2016 — Future Defense Department technological superiority hinges on the department’s ability to out-innovate its adversaries, rethink how it sources technology and perhaps rethink its models for product delivery, the assistant secretary of defense for research and engineering said here yesterday. Stephen P. Welby […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. By Patty Welsh, 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs / Published November 09, 2016 HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – The Kill Chain Integration Branch here has begun an experimentation campaign to look at ways to provide warfighters data in the fastest and most efficient ways possible. Called […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2016 — Earlier this month Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s new Defense Innovation Board recommended to the department several novel practices for improving innovation at the Pentagon, and today he announced that he would implement three of them. He was speaking at the Center for Strategic and […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2016 — The Pentagon’s Third Offset Strategy pursues next-generation technologies and concepts to assure U.S. military superiority, but the real focus is strengthening U.S. conventional deterrence to make sure wars don’t happen, Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work says. He spoke last week at a Center for […]

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