Air Force’s shift to multi-domain operations depends on networks

As the Army invests more in its networks and depends on them increasingly, defending them has become a bigger focus of its cybersecurity teams.

The Department of Defense is required to release at least 20 percent of its custom software as open source through a pilot, but it's hardly gotten to 10 percent.

With OMB on board, the DOD will issue a legislative proposal later this fall to ask for what Jeff Boleng calls "software money."

General Dynamics IT, Dell and Minburn won the cloud collaboration and email services contract in late August through a teaming agreement.

"I want to make sure I get to the point where I'm comfortable enough to know it," the secretary says about a decision on the $10 billion cloud contract.

A draft of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is now live, and the Pentagon wants feedback through Sept. 25.

The company will provide "a full range of classified and unclassified information technology services in the National Capital Region ... to include Joint Base Andrews, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and the Pentagon."

Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan previewed two of the JAIC's biggest priorities for fiscal 2020 — and one of them will bring AI to the battlefield.

But Microsoft is the big winner under the contract, as the team will provide its Office 365 services to all of the DOD.

The agency went viral on Wednesday. Here's what those underground tunnels are all about.