Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. After years of preparation and qualifying rounds, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Cyber Grand Challenge finally reached its conclusion. Seven teams from around the country, and the autonomous computer systems they each built, competed in a series of bug-hunting contests to win some serious cash prizes. This […]

Relevant links are available at the bottom of this post. The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) three-tiered plan for DOD cloud computing and security took center stage at the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) Federal Cloud Computing Summit held July 26 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center located in the District of Columbia. […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. David Egts is chief technologist at Red Hat U.S. Public Sector. It’s been said 80 percent an organization’s budget is spent “keeping the lights on” with ongoing operations and maintenance. That leaves only 20 percent left over for innovation. Based on conversations I’ve had with government agency leaders, this […]

Starting in CONS3RT 5.13, all Help and License fields will support Markdown formatting. Existing HTML will only be rendered as text. For more information about Markdown syntax, visit https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax. The latest release of CONS3RT also includes the following updates: Slack Integration – Users can connect their CONS3RT project to Slack with the new app. There […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Defense Department officially opened its second experimental tech unit, DIUx 2.0, in Boston, while announcing a faster agile tech development capability and new prototype work. Although the Pentagon’s Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) in Boston has been working on a number of technology development efforts for […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. WASHINGTON, July 18, 2016 — On Aug. 4 in Las Vegas, seven computers will compete in the first all-machine cyber defense tournament, the result of a multiyear effort by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to bring autonomy to the problem of making computers secure. Mike Walker, program manager […]

The latest release of CONS3RT includes the following updates: Clouspace Selection – New detailed information on errors when users attempt to launch a deployment run but get the “No Cloudspace Found” message. Deployment Run Migration – Admins can now migrate a deployment run (in reserved state) across cloudspaces. Security Enhancements – Various security enhancements

Relevant links can be found at the bottom of this post. The Senate’s plan to reorganize the Defense Department still needs the approval of the House before it can reach the President and today may have moved the bill one step closer. A triumvirate of former Pentagon officials gave the House Armed Services mostly positive reviews […]

The latest release of CONS3RT includes the following updates: Improved Deployment Time – Deployment runs are now 20-50% faster than before! System Editor – Users can now edit existing Systems in development, which includes adding/removing/changing software and adjusting minimum specs. These changes will be picked up the next time the Deployment is run. Password Validation […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. I am pleased to share that, for our AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS has received a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Provisional Authorization (PA) at Impact Level 4 (IL4). This will allow Department of Defense (DoD) agencies to use the AWS Cloud for production workloads with export-controlled data, privacy […]