Kelly Fletcher details Navy CIO restructuring, her new CMO role

The agency detailed a plan to update its telecommunications network on Thursday, promising to increase its speed by tenfold with Ethernet capability.

Soldiers need better tools for understanding the "vast amount of information" presented on the battlefield, the Army says.

The lieutenant general has served as CIO of the Air Force since June 2017.

GEOWorks gives large and small companies, academic institutions and other interested individuals an opportunity to access NGA’s data and tools.

The HACQer program is another opportunity for the group to share its ideas about how to acquire technology in a way that's not traditional of the Pentagon.

The DOD wants to bring its enterprise communication, collaboration and productivity applications into the 21st century with a proposed cloud acquisition worth up to $8 billion.

The legislation also calls to limit department senior executive service CIO roles to just five starting in 2021.

In a hearing Tuesday, officials pointed to several problems limiting DOD's innovation and possible solutions.

While the contract was amended in some places to reflect the more than 1,000 comments and concerns of interested vendors, the contract's single award acquisition strategy remains.

The DOD’s key agency for combating weapons of mass destruction is requesting new technology solutions to detect a nuclear attack.

Jeff Boleng will be part of the executive leadership team of Ellen Lord, undersecretary of Defense for acquisition and sustainment

DOD Secretary Jim Mattis detailed his aggressive agenda for Pentagon research and engineering.

By moving to a single cloud architecture, rather than awarding contracts to multiple cloud providers, DOD is limiting its ability to plan for failure and keep its systems a step ahead of adversaries, they said.

The swarm of robots would be used to create a “safety bubble” around the area of operations.

Dana Deasy joins the Pentagon after spending a handful of years as CIO of JPMorgan Chase.

The deal makes General Dynamics IT the largest provider of technology services to the federal government by a hefty margin.

Private sector contractors have been tapped to run Air Force’s email servers so airmen can be placed in more critical Mission Defense Teams.

This time the Pentagon wants hackers to find vulnerabilities in the Defense Travel System's public-facing websites.

DOD wants to move its Defense Agencies Initiative to some sort of cloud environment.

A key step that federal agencies can take to operate across multiple clouds more efficiently is by leveraging the power of an enterprise-wide application delivery controller.

If approved, the CSRA and General Dynamics merger would result in the leading federal IT services provider.

Thomas Modly said the move comes as part of his commitment to “implementing a culture of agility, accountability, and enhanced lethality with the Department of the Navy.”

Congress is asking why there should be a "single award contract rather than creating an infrastructure capable of storing and sharing data across multiple cloud computing service providers concurrently."

It is not enough just to bring together people of different backgrounds, call it diversity and expect it to make any difference, Vice Adm. Nancy Norton explained.

GSA officials detailed prospective legislative changes needed to establish e-commerce portals in a conference call on Friday.

Shulkin said a finalized contract with Cerner could be coming soon, but first the department is addressing interoperability concerns.

The contract stands to serve as a major foot in the door for AWS to prove its ability to host DOD's secret-level systems.

Even better, the office has seen a significant decrease in late tasks, project leaders say.

Needless to say, REAN Cloud LLC isn't very happy.

The Pentagon's stance is that multiple awards would make the JEDI project too complex and too risky.

At an industry day, Pentagon officials detailed their vision for the JEDI contract. "We want to bring this to the warfighter," one official said.

The department plans to narrow the scope of the five-year contract, originally worth $950 million, to just $65 million — a drawback of more than 90 percent.

The report has some suggestions for countermeasures, but those are only revealed in a classified version of the document.

Department of Defense components will now be able to use the agency’s newest cloud computing infrastructure on a provisional basis.

Paul Nakasone told senators at a congressional hearing Thursday that he doesn’t believe U.S. adversaries in cyberspace fear any repercussions for conducting hacking campaigns and cyber-espionage.

The U.S. Cyber Command is seeking insights on joint analytics support capabilities it’s looking to obtain, including development and optimization.

In the current framework, there are more than 600 security controls, burdening the process of bringing an application online.

Agency officials said converting the classified information network to a software-based virtual web will increase capacity while reducing its size.

The challenge aims to encourage "intrapreneurship."

The Reston, Virginia-based contractor also won DISA's $298 million predecessor contract.

The ARL issued a request for information Monday for solutions to help update its 1.3 petabyte data storage environment.

The technologies under development really run the gamut.

The industry day will hopefully solidify how DOD plans to buy commercial cloud services across its enterprise.

Satellite-based GPS has become "contested" and "vulnerable" and can no longer be relied on, a top Pentagon IT official said.

FedScoop's sister publication CyberScoop reported in recent weeks that Nakasone was the favorite to land the job.

"Our goal is to get a lot of the data into an environment where we can start making better decisions," said the Pentagon No. 2.

The contract is based on a prototype REAN launched last year with the U.S. Transportation Command, helping migrate dozens of its legacy applications to the cloud.

Crall is taking the spot left empty by Maj. Gen. Burke “Ed” Wilson, who Defense Secretary Jim Mattis appointed as his right-hand man on cyber policy.

"We want the bar to be so high that it becomes a condition of doing business," Shanahan said of cybersecurity.

One of Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn's key achievements was overseeing the Joint Force Headquarters Department of Defense Information Network to full operational capability.

The agency spent nearly $60 million on an EHR rollout that ultimately came to nothing after five years of work.

An Arlington, Virginia, software company has been tasked with helping DARPA build data models to help predict future terrorist attacks.

A big backlog of background checks and problems with IT security are among the key reasons for the decision, GAO said.

A Northern Virginia contractor will lead the acquisition of a commercial cloud platform across the Pentagon with DOD's Cloud Executive Steering Group.

With a deadline to adopt new aircraft-tracking technology looming, the DoD has yet to fully address security concerns about its effect on military aircraft.

This quarter's meeting also included updates to recommendations past.

Officials said they plan to launch milCloud 2.0 three months ahead of schedule.

The Defense Information Systems Agency isn’t just leveraging biometrics to solve the problem of identity, it’s counting your steps to make it happen.

The DOD Cloud Executive Steering Group will be chaired by Deputy Chief Management Officer Jay Gibson going forward.

Rivera joined DISA in 1992 and held many positions, including CTO, and later director, of its Computing Services organization.