http://www.c4isrnet.com/article/20141211/C4ISRNET14/312110013/Tim-Rudolph-Air-Force-aims-zero-data-centers-through-purchase-IaaS Tim Rudolph is the Air Force Senior Leader for Integrated Information Capabilities, AF Life Cycle Management Center. He serves in a variety of capacities, including AFLCMC Chief Technology Officer (CTO) as the Authorizing Official for C2 Platform IT, both ground-based and airborne.  In a recent Q&A session, Rudolph offered candid comments on the direction […]

https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=642059&lang=en-US Long Description The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium was formed in 2010 to define an open avionics environment for all military airborne platform types. Today, it is an aviation-focused professional group made up of industry suppliers, customers, academia, and users. The FACE approach is a government-industry software standard and business strategy for […]

http://www.hanscom.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123433964 12/10/2014 – HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass.  — The U.S. Air Force, in concert with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this week marked the official re-branding of a facility both parties hope will enable leading-edge advances in defense applications, cyber defense and public safety.The on-base facility, formerly known in acronym form as the CEIF (pronounced Seef), has been renamed […]

http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2014/12/pentagon-watchdog-dod-stumbles-cloud-computing-plan/100590/ http://www.defense.gov/news/DoDCloudComputingStrategy.pdf http://www.dodig.mil/pubs/documents/DODIG-2015-045.pdf http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2014/11/heres-what-rewrite-dods-cloud-strategy-will-look/99944/ It’s one thing to have a plan. It’s another to carry it out. That’s the message conveyed in an inspector general report regarding the execution of the Defense Department’s cloud computing strategy. DOD created the plan in July 2012 in an effort to explore and use potential cost savings and benefits in […]

http://fcw.com/articles/2014/12/03/air-force-cio-cyber.aspx http://fcw.com/articles/2014/10/31/navy-cybersecurity.aspx Cybersecurity By Sean Lyngaas Dec 03, 2014 Recently installed Air Force CIO Lt. Gen. William Bender is planning a comprehensive review of the service’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities that will go far beyond what he says is the current, narrowly drawn view of USAF networks. By focusing on Air Force-only networks and not the larger […]

http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2014/11/bug-accidentally-shut-down-military-open-source-software-portal/99950/ A software bug inadvertently has knocked out the military’s system for developing open source software, according to the Defense Department. A data center supporting Forge.mil executed computer instructions that accidentally “corrupted all Forge.mil systems,” Defense Information Systems Agency officials said in a notice released early Monday. The DISA Defense Enterprise Computing Center in Montgomery, Alabama, is the […]

http://www.hanscom.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123432018 11/19/2014 – HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. — “Cyber is a domain – like air and space. Manmade, constantly changing, which spans across all other domains.”These were the words of the Secretary of the Air Force’s Cyberspace Strategy and Policy director Brig. Gen. Sarah Zabel, as she took center stage during an Association of  Old Crows cyber summit […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=123651 By Cheryl PellerinDoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2014 – In a keynote speech tonight at the 2014 Reagan National Defense Forum, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced a plan to harness the brightest minds and cutting-edge technology to change the way the Department of Defense innovates and operates. On the second day […]

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/394/3740684/At-the-Pentagon-most-Army-PCs-will-be-replaced-with-virtual-desktops Over the next year, most of the Army’s IT users at the Pentagon will see the PCs under their desks carted off one-by-one and replaced with virtual desktops as part of an aggressive schedule to implement zero client interfaces. The Army’s Information Technology Agency, which also handles most of DoD’s day-to- day IT functions […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=123596 By Cheryl PellerinDoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2014 – The Defense Department is pushing forward on information technology such as cloud computing, smartphones and apps, the Joint Information Environment, and data access to improve the mission and reduce costs, the Pentagon’s acting chief information officer said yesterday. Terry Halvorsen gave a […]