Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. FORT MEADE, Md., Oct. 24, 2016 — All 133 of U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber Mission Force teams achieved initial operating capability as of Oct. 21, Cybercom officials announced today. Reaching the IOC milestone is a testament to the Defense Department’s focus on developing cyber capability and capacity, as […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Department of Defense announced today that it has awarded a contract to HackerOne and Synack to create a new contract vehicle for DOD components and the services to easily launch their own ‘bug bounty’ challenges, similar to Hack the Pentagon, with the ultimate objective  to […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. As the Department of Defense (DOD) continues to adopt commercial cloud capabilities, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is helping cloud service providers and DOD mission owners work through the DOD Cloud Provisional Authorization (PA) process, which allows DOD to provisionally authorize a cloud service offering […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of  this post. The Defense Science Board released the results of its summer study on autonomy. The document provides a raft of recommendations for DoD in the way of further adopting autonomy into systems and operations while ensuring sufficient security against adversarial adoption of similar technologies and the inherent vulnerabilities […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Defense Department has reprioritized its goals as they relate to the future of information technology and packaged them together in a document released this week. Called the “Way Forward to Tomorrow’s Strategic Landscape,” DOD’s new vision includes everything from cloud computing and cybersecurity to closing data centers and […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. One of the CIA’s top security officials said the cloud infrastructure built by Amazon Web Services is improving the spy agency’s cybersecurity posture and speed to mission handling national security threats. “Cloud has been a godsend for folks trying to implement systems quickly and for us to secure […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. Open Source By Mark Rockwell Aug 08, 2016 The White House released long-anticipated guidelines aimed at improving agency sharing of federally-developed software source code. The memo, noted in an Aug. 8 blog post by Federal CIO Tony Scott, also incorporates a pilot program to release some custom-developed code used by […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. LAS VEGAS, Aug. 7, 2016 — This week, seven teams whose cyber reasoning bots played in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Cyber Grand Challenge proved that machines by themselves could find and fix software safety problems in a simplified version of the code used everywhere, every day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDO2GgL20Q […]

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. […]