http://www.hanscom.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123448288 5/18/2015 – LEXINGTON, Mass.  — Addressing a standing-room-only audience of industry and government employees here May 13, the Air Force’s Service Acquisition Executive spoke about acquisition priorities, challenges and initiatives. Dr. William LaPlante, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, emphasized his top priorities: “big” projects, consisting of the F-35, the KC-46A and the Long Range Strike […]

Relevant links are listed at the end of this post. – Bert Nearly two years after Iranian hackers poked holes in the Navy’s cyber defense, the service’s cyber command has released a strategy that tries to ensure that never happens again — or at least minimizes the damage when it does. One of the goals […]

  WASHINGTON, April 23, 2015 – Defense Secretary Ash Carter today unveiled the Defense Department’s second cyber strategy to guide the development of DoD’s cyber forces and to strengthen its cyber defenses and its posture on cyber deterrence. Carter discussed the new strategy — an update to the original strategy released in 2011 — before […]

http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2015/04/dod-stresses-cyber-acquisition-mandate/109885/ http://bbp.dau.mil/docs/BBP3.0ImplementationGuidanceMemorandumforRelease.pdf The Defense Department is focusing part of its acquisition overhaul on cybersecurity, according to new guidance. Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall on Thursday issued instructions for implementing Better Buying Power 3.0, the third version of an efficiency directive originally introduced in 2010. The directive aims to increase productivity and reduce costs in DOD technology […]

http://fcw.com/articles/2015/04/07/ipv6-migration.aspx http://www.dodig.mil/pubs/documents/DODIG-2015-044.pdf By Adam Mazmanian Apr 07, 2015 The Department of Defense first laid out plans to convert its network to the Internet Protocol Version 6 standard in 2003. While DoD has hit several milestones along the way, a lack of a coordinated effort on the part of the CIO office and U.S. Cyber Command […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=128440 By Cheryl PellerinDoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, March 24, 2015 – Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen held a media roundtable recently to discuss progress on elements of his department’s transition to an information environment that’s faster, safer and less expensive for the DoD. The Joint Information Environment is a framework for […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=128433 http://www.defense.gov/documents/DoD-CIO-Memo_Subj_Shielding_DoD_and_Family_from_Phishing_dtd_20150318.pdf By Terri Moon CronkDoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, March 23, 2015 – Defense Department employees and their families should be vigilant when guarding personal and work information from expanding cyber-criminal activity, and to know how to recognize scammer tactics, according to DoD’s chief information officer. Terry A. Halvorsen issued a DoD-wide memorandum […]

http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2014/12/new-policy-dod-components-wont-need-disa-buy-cloud-services/101511/ http://www.nextgov.com/media/gbc/docs/pdfs_edit/121714fk1.pdf http://iase.disa.mil/cloud_security/Documents/u_cloud_srg_v1r0-36.pdf New Defense Department guidance issued Wednesday by Acting Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen allows DOD components to acquire commercial cloud services without the Defense Information Systems Agency acting as a broker. The new policy overrides two previous memorandums that charged DISA with assessing the security of commercial cloud service offerings and cataloging them […]

http://fcw.com/articles/2014/12/09/dod-cyber-roles.aspx http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/514402p.pdf A recent Defense Department directive is an important clarification of the different roles played by the Pentagon’s CIO, principal cyber advisor and other officials in setting the department’s cybersecurity policy, acting DOD CIO Terry Halvorsen told reporters on Dec. 5. The directive, dated Nov. 21 and signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work, updates […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=123746 http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/resources/DefenseInnovationInitiative.pdf http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/LRRDP.html http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/offsetrfi1203.pdf By Amaani Lyle DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2014 – The Defense Department seeks technology and innovative ideas as part of its Long Range Research Development Plan within the Defense Innovation Initiative, a broad effort that examines future capabilities, dominance and strategy, a senior DoD official said Nov. […]