Ideas
You Can Now Bid on DOD's 2nd-Largest-Ever Cloud-Services Contract
The up-to-$8 billion DEOS is only the first phase of the Defense Department's plan to buy common communication, collaboration and productivity capabilities.
Defense Systems
Defense industrial base cyber program adds a key partner
The voluntary public-private information-sharing program facilitates better situational awareness about IT security threats to unclassified contractor networks and information systems.
Defense Systems
New ways to detect network attacks sooner
Compressing the network traffic sent to central analysis servers may allow analysts to detect intrusions earlier in the transmission process.
Science & Tech
Russians Will Soon Lose Uncensored Access to the Internet
A new law allows the Kremlin to spy on, filter, and control the country’s online activity, alarming human-rights watchdogs.
Policy
Top Cyber Diplomat: US Needs Allies’ Help to Punish Cyberattacks
Creating a unified international response around online attacks will help “establish the legitimacy” of norms for cyberspace.
Defense Systems
Transforming weapon systems cybersecurity
Defense contractors must think beyond large-scale technical upgrades and instead focus on promoting incremental changes that can measurably reduce risk now.
Defense Systems
USAF adds competitive career categories for cyber, space
The Air Force is trying to improve training and talent retention by adding seven new competitive career categories for officers that will include cyber, intelligence and space.
Defense Systems
Navy could add new cyber leadership slot
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer says adding a new assistant secretary for cybersecurity and tightening contractors' security practices are top priorities for 2020.
Defense Systems
Filling the federal cyber talent pipeline
The Cybersecurity Talent Initiative aims to jumpstart cyber careers by placing university graduates in federal agencies.
Defense Systems
National Guard seeks weekend cyber warriors
The National Guard wants to increase cybersecurity capacity by attracting exiting servicemembers and full-time private-sector professionals.
Ideas
It’s Time To Make Data Strategic For Our Navy
The U.S. Navy’s future lethality depends on a new digital culture.
Science & Tech
Installing Chinese 5G Gear is Dangerous — and Probably Inevitable: NATO Center Report
Alliance members should look to mimic Britain, which created an entire government office to scrutinize Huawei’s products for security problems.
Defense Systems
Supply chain security: the subcontractor risk
While large defense contractors typically have robust security measures in place, the smaller and medium-sized companies they subcontract with do not, making them prime targets of nation-state hackers.
Defense Systems
SecDef says cyber is top modernization priority
In March 26 testimony to Congress, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan pointed to cyber modernization as a key element of DOD's $750 billion top-line budget request.
Science & Tech
UK Stands Fast, Won’t Ban Huawei 5G Gear Despite US Warnings
The Vice Chief of Defence Staff says a “sophisticated” approach can capture the benefits while reducing the risks of using Chinese next-gen telecoms gear.
Science & Tech
Pentagon To Explore Potential of 5G — and Its Made-in-China Hazards
Planned experiments will test the emerging wireless technology, even as leaders fret publicly about supply-chain risks.
Ideas
We Need a NATO/EU for Cyber Defense
The world’s democracies aren’t properly organized to fend off today’s authoritarian attacks, let alone reshape the internet and key industries to stop tomorrow’s.
Threats
Inside the Energy Dept.'s New $96M Infrastructure-Security Office
The new Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response aims to deflect cyber, manmade and natural security hazards.
Threats
Cyber Threats Are Emerging Faster Than DHS Can Identify and Confront Them
Secretary Nielsen: “The discipline of understanding what is emerging is where I find we are lacking."
Defense Systems