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Austin mandates COVID vaccine for military
The defense secretary has ordered military departments to immediately begin mandatory vaccination programs with FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines.
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Pentagon pushes ahead with COVID vaccine mandate
The Defense Department will mandate Pfizer-produced COVID-19 vaccines following the Food and Drug Administration's approval, and other agencies are expected to follow.
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Why the Pentagon wants to make software buying easier
This interview with Tory Cuff, senior advisor for agile acquisitions, explores the Adaptive Acquisition Framework's special software pathway and DOD's pilot experiment with "colorless" money.
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CMMC board chief talks assessors, IT staff
Matt Travis, the CEO for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body, said proper training and IT access to the Defense Department's Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS) application, which will house CMMC data, still needs to be finalized for the third-party organizations that will be charged with conducting cyber assessments.
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Army looks to revise cyber operations doctrine
Brig. Gen. Paul Stanton, the commanding general for the Army's Cyber Center of Excellence, said the service was in the final stages of publishing a revised field manual on how it executes cyber operations.
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Can tech protect R&D from foreign adversaries?
The Air Force Research Laboratory wants to assess the risks posed by researchers who may be passing R&D to foreign adversaries.
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How COVID-19 is driving the military’s move to mobile RFID
The need to securely track assets of a mobile workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic has made a clear case for the military to adopt mobile RFID.
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Was DOD ready for telework in 2020?
Slow networks, a lack of management buy-in and the need for more government equipment all affected how DOD feds transitioned to telework at the start of the pandemic, new reports from DOD's IG found.
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Data and DOD's pivot from 'fight tonight'
The Pentagon is developing a tool that could help trace the impact of senior leaders' decisions down to the unit and years into the future.
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Contractor oversight was lacking in Afghanistan, IG says
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction's newest report calls out the government's failure to oversee contractors as a source of waste, fraud and abuse.
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Senators push DHS to focus intel activities on foreign threats
The Senate version of the annual intelligence authorization bill, which passed out of committee last week, includes a warning to DHS' intelligence arm to distinguish more carefully between its foreign and domestic missions.
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Navy looks beyond RMF to build cyber resilience
The Navy wants to fortify its cyber resilience to keep pace with rapid software development needs, but changing workforce habits has to come first.
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Microsoft nabs top secret cloud ATO
Azure Government Top Secret is now "generally available" for national security workloads, Microsoft announced in a blog post.
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DHS wants a CMMC-like model for contractors
DHS' Office of the Chief Procurement Officer issued a special notice Aug. 10, noting that it is looking for a way to check contractors' compliance with its cyber hygiene clauses released in 2015.
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Solarium progress report highlights security advances, challenges
While most of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission's recommendations are on track to being implemented, but lack of funding could potentially undermine some efforts, according to a recent the commissions’ 56-page progress report.
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State Department expands push to the cloud
The State Department wants to go all in on the cloud, starting with a new multiplatform toolset to add flexibility and innovation to IT services.
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DOD looks for answers on GPS data spoofing
The Defense Department is looking for technology solutions to obviate the growing threat of location data spoofing targeting satellite-based systems.
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CISA launches joint cyber defense effort
The Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative aims to help the U.S. defend against threats to critical infrastructure through information-sharing and defense operations planning.
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Strategic Command to lead EMS training effort
The Defense Department is standing up a new office to improve expertise in electromagnetic spectrum operations under U.S. Strategic Command as part of a new implementation plan.
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