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DOD unveils Boston innovation hub

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 […]

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Bug-Hunting Computers to Compete in DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge

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 […]

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AWS Earns Department of Defense Impact Level 4 Provisional Authorization

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 […]

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Carter Announces ‘Hack the Pentagon’ Program Results

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. WASHINGTON, June 17, 2016 — Cracking open his laptop between classes as he finished up his senior year in high school, 18-year-old David Dworken was on an important mission for the Pentagon, according to Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Dworken was among the more than 1,400 hackers invited […]

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DoD Cyber Strategy Needs Statement

Relevant links  are at the bottom of this post. The Department of Defense, Rapid Reaction Technology (RRTO) Innovation Outreach Program will conduct a Solutions Meeting in the Washington, DC area in June/July 2016. The Solutions Meeting provides selected innovative companies an opportunity to make short technical presentations to government representatives about their technologies and capabilities. There […]

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DOD CIO, Through DISA, Releases Cloud Security Requirements Guide Update

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – The Department of Defense (DOD) Chief Information Office, through the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), released an update to the Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG) Friday, March 25, to provide guidance and policy to commercial and DOD cloud service […]

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08 Feb 2016 – NSA21: Facing Threats to the Nation and Future Challenges with Innovation, Integration, and a Focus on Talent

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The National Security Agency has launched a comprehensive campaign to ensure NSA maintains its position as the world’s preeminent foreign signals intelligence and information assurance organization. The vision and framework for this initiative, known as NSA21 – meaning NSA in the 21st Century – was unveiled […]

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SPAWAR’s strategic plan focusing on cyber

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command has released its 2016 Strategic Plan, which places adding advanced cyber capabilities among its five key objectives. The plan, which supports SPAWAR’s seven-year vision launched last year, was issued recently by SPAWAR Commander Adm. David Lewis. “SPAWAR’s vision is to […]

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NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate at a crossroads

Relevnt links are at the  bottom of this post. Intelligence Although often overshadowed by the far bigger Signals Intelligence Directorate, IAD’s mission of protecting sensitive information on government networks is more important than ever. By Sean Lyngaas Jan 26, 2016 Curt Dukes, head of the NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate, described the daunting challenge his 3,000-person […]

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Hackers to Pentagon: You’re Doing Cyber Wrong

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. What happens when you bring together some of the nation’s leading hackers, the Pentagon’s chief of training and an Air Force Academy professor who teaches cyber skills to cadets? They all agree on one thing: The government’s approach to cyber security is coming up short. They […]

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