Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. As the Defense Department continues to build cyber into its thinking about what it means to conduct modern warfare, it’s using old-fashioned mechanisms to ensure the transition is successful: it’s now incorporating cybersecurity in to the notion of military readiness, and going forward, commanders will be held accountable […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. By WASHINGTON (AFNS), Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Command Information / Published September 15, 2015 Today the Air Force officially released the Air Force Future Operating Concept, which is the latest in a series of strategic documents designed to guide the organizing, training, and equipping of […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The State Department, fresh off the heels of a highly publicized cyberintrusion, is picking industry’s brain for tactics to block and perhaps strike back at hackers, according to new contracting documents. State wants to produce a new set of how-to “playbooks” around cybersecurity “to clearly guide both offensive cyber operations […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. In an effort to encourage the sharing of data, information and information technology services across the Defense Department, DoD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen issued a memo directing military departments, defense agencies and others to adopt standardized, machine-readable information exchange practices. According to an Aug. 3 […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Defense Department’s information technology arm has unveiled a guide for IT shops in the defense and military space planning a move to the cloud. Released by the Defense Information Systems Agency, the guide is aimed at DOD “mission owners” wanting to migrate an existing information system from […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. The Defense Information Systems Agency on July 24 issued three new documents targeting cloud security, including two new requirements guides and a new concept of operations. The three new documents more thoroughly define cloud security and the steps to achieving it, outlining the responsibilities of the organizations and […]

Relevant links are at the bottom of this post. JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. (AFNS) — A new government open architecture acquisition process that can award contracts in weeks instead of years was tested here June 8-11. The process, called PlugFest, is an interactive industry event where companies get to “plug-in” to a given open system architecture […]

http://www.hanscom.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123451615 6/23/2015 – HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. — Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International presented Hanscom Air Force Base’s Dr. Tim Rudolph, chief technology officer for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, with its Distinguished Award for Excellence in Information Technology during a ceremony at its Cyber Operations Symposium in Baltimore June 15. Rudolph was cited […]

http://disa.mil/News/Stories/2015/Strategic-Plan http://disa.mil/News/Stories/2015/~/media/Files/DISA/About/Strategic-Plan.pdf DISA Director Air Force Lt Gen Ronnie Hawkins released the agency’s updated strategic plan June 16. This version of the DISA Strategic Plan reiterates the agency’s mission and vision and also lays out an objective state: Assured, scalable, managed access to services and data In all environments At the point of need Provided from cost […]

Relevant link is at the end of  this post. The White House has directed all federal agencies to take a series of swift measures to lock down government systems, in the wake of a devastating hack that possibly delivered Chinese spies data that could compromise national security. A summary of the steps released late Friday evening does […]