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Meet the Marines' new CIO

Brig. Gen. Lorna Mahlock talks about how the service is looking to gain technical advantage.

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Navy awards commercial cloud deal

The CSRA arm of General Dynamics' IT services arm wins a key contract through which the Navy aims to speed up its move to commercial cloud services.

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DOD has lost 4,000 civilian cyber workers in the past year

The Defense Department looks to targeted recruiting and bonuses to check the loss of cyber workers as it expands the Cyber Excepted Service Personnel System.

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Navy looks to blockchain to track aviation parts

The Naval Air Systems Command is working on a project using blockchain to track components through their lifecycles.

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PEO Digital shows Air Force shift on software development

Steven Wert, USAF's digital program executive officer, said the service is looking to pivot to agile development.

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Air Force SBIR/STTR pushed forward with PaaS project

With the application now running in the cloud, attention is turning to more-efficient migrations.

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Army makes ITES-3S awards

The Army finally awards its much-anticipated $12.1 billion ITES-3S contract, the branch's primary mechanism to acquire commercial IT services.

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Navy to get new deputy enterprise program executive

The Navy announced a new deputy program executive officer for enterprise information systems as the organization seeks a massive cloud contract.

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Security clearance backlog drops 9 percent

An interagency council credits a series of changes instituted to the security clearance process this year with the first drop unprocessed background investigations in years.

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DIU gets a new leader

Former Symantec CEO Michael Brown takes over as director of the Defense Innovation Unit.

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Shanahan talks Space Force

No. 2 Pentagon official Patrick Shanahan tries to allay Air Force worries that a Space Force would uproot its Space and Missile Command.

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Interest is growing in unmanned maritime systems

Lockheed Martin's investment in Ocean Aero is just the latest sign that the market for unmanned maritime vehicles is heating up.

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DOD previews new cyber strategy

The Defense Department's cyber strategy highlights infrastructure protection and greater reliance on commercial technology to stay competitive.

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PEO Digital debuts

The Air Force is rebranding and changing its acquisition structure to reflect new statutory authorities and its agile approach to development.

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Air Force looks to consolidate IT support contracts

The Air Force has released a draft RFP for a contract that will combine the work currently done under several contracts into a single-award vehicle.

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Air Force may launch RCO for cyber

The U.S. Air Force is considering a rapid capabilities office to streamline cybersecurity acquisition.

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Who's minding the store on DOD-VA health systems collaboration?

As the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs work in parallel to implement the Cerner health record systems, Congress is worried about a single point of accountability.

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Debate building around $10B JEDI procurement

Concerns around the Defense Department’s management of services for the pending Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure bubble up as award protests mount.

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CYBERCOM building up in-house acquisition capacity

U.S. Cyber Command's contracting office is in its "infancy" with a handful of staff and is looking to expand while showing Congress it knows what it's doing.

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Why it’s so hard to reach an international agreement on killer robots

There is fundamental disagreement over whether increasing the autonomy of weapons is always bad.