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 […]

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/solomon-hykes/ You probably have a Google search engine running on your phone. But it doesn’t just run on your phone. It works so well for you—and for millions of others—because it’s really running on thousands of machines in data centers across the globe. The same goes for Facebook and Amazon and, well, all of the Internet’s […]

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=128665 By Cheryl Pellerin DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, April 24, 2015 – The Defense Department has maintained a steady $12 billion investment in science and technology and is using new initiatives to boost innovation and military superiority, defense officials told a Senate panel April 22. Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology […]

  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.hanscom.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123444851 4/10/2015 – Peter Walsh of Jackpine Technologies briefs Mass. Governor Charlie Baker and Public Safety Secretary Daniel Bennett, along with other guests Maj. Gen. L. Scott Rice, Mass. adjutant general, and Patsy Reeves, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center executive director, during a visit to the Hanscom Collaboration and Innovation Center April 10. The governor […]

On April 10, Jackpine Technologies briefed Mass. Governor Charlie Baker and Public Safety Secretary Daniel Bennett, along with other guests Maj. Gen. L. Scott Rice, Mass. adjutant general, and Patsy Reeves, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center executive director. Jackpine spoke about CONS3RT and how it helps organizations to – Fail small so they don’t […]

Jackpine Technologies is providing the common environment that enables vendors to rapidly develop, test, and demonstrate new capabilities during a “virtual fly off” for the Air Force’s PlugFest PLUS. Vendors remotely access the common environment using Hanscom milCloud which is infrastructure managed by Jackpine Technology’s hybrid cloud orchestration and service management software suite known as […]

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 […]