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Agile intelligence is the name of the game at DIA
Grant Schneider, deputy director of information management and CIO at the Defense Intelligence Agency, discusses IT transformation, security and collaborative intelligence, and cloud computing.
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Army harnesses full power of intelligence assets
Col. Charles Wells, project manager of the Distributed Common Ground Systems-Army, discusses the role DCGS-A is playing in DOD's first tactical cloud, the initial deployment to Afghanistan and the decision to place DCGS-A hardware in an airborne surveillance platform.
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Army selects provider to maintain Guardrail systems
ManTech International Corp. has received a two-year Army task order worth $22.6 million for a variety of software engineering services.
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Balloon-mounted cameras serve as eyes in the Afghan sky
The United States is stepping up its game in Afghanistan with $1 billion worth of gear to help with the rising threats this spring.
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DISA shifts to new strategy for network support
The Defense Information Systems Agency will soon award a contract for the day-to-day operations and support of the Defense Information Systems Network and its Global Information Grid networks.
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DISA outlines major network and enterprise initiatives
The Defense Information Systems Agency is using cloud computing to build an enterprise infrastructure across the Defense Department.
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Military scouts best ways to protect stored data
The military looks at encryption and solid-state drives to store data securely.
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Two generals honored for advancing cybersecurity
Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minihan and Gen. James Cartwright are being honored for their contributions to cybersecurity defense by the University of Maryland University College as the institution celebrates its new cybersecurity program.
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Utilities bear heavy cost of securing infrastructure
The cost of securing the nation's critical assets must be included in future utility rates.
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Alliance touts benefits of hosted satellite payloads
New space industry alliance seeks to help match up federal customers and their payloads with private satellite firms.
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Early success shows DOD what desktop virtualization can do
The Defense Department's ultimate goal is to supply clinical applications anywhere users are — in a hospital, aboard a ship or on the battlefield.
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Virtualization breathes new life into DOD health records system
The Defense Department is deploying thin clients to breathe new life into a sluggish electronic health records system.
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Are advanced persistent threats here to stay?
The recent discovery of an advanced persistent threat inside RSA proves what the company had been saying for weeks: This new breed of threat against high-value targets is probably inevitable.
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Shifting cyber landscape presents risks, offers opportunities
Data and computing power have become so mobile that cybersecurity must focus on protecting information rather than infrastructure, government and industry officials say.
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Heavy lifting continues with Army enterprise e-mail
A top Army official details some of the exact steps the service is taking to move and restructure the e-mail accounts of more than 1.5 million users as part of the service's continuing enterprise e-mail initiative.
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Special Ops Command taps HP for data center services
Hewlett-Packard Co. has won a four-year, $68.1 million data center services contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command to support its worldwide missions.
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How do you react quickly to cyber aggression?
Although observers praised the remarkable speed with which the United Nations and western military powers established a no-fly zone in Libya, the speed with which it was accomplished is completely inadequate for an event of such magnitude in cyberspace.
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Nothing wussy about moderate security
"There is nothing wussy about moderate," Robert Williams, president of Clear Government Solutions said at a recent briefing on cloud computing in the government in Washington, D.C.
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Chiarelli saluted for focus on soldiers' health
Speaking at this week's Federal 100 awards ceremony, Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli highlighted how technology is helping to heal brain injuries and treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
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