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 […]

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. WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2016 — During the first meeting of the new Defense Innovation Board today at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Ash Carter and board members discussed 11 interim recommendations the board offered to DoD for consideration. Carter established the board in March, inviting as members 15 […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of  this post. LEXINGTON, Mass. – Maj. Gen. Dwyer L. Dennis emphasized the importance of a command and control construct for networks during a presentation to the Hanscom Representatives Association Sept. 21. The general, who is the Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks program executive officer, referenced Air Force Chief […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2016 — The Defense Department’s technological and organizational leaps over the decades have been characterized as strategies to offset or overcome the conventional strengths of potential adversaries. DoD is now in the throes of the Third Offset Strategy, according to defense officials, and today Deputy […]