The Department of Defense has been strengthening its networks and cyber hygiene amid the growing number of teleworking employees during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the agency's leaders. Secretary Mark Esper said the Pentagon is also ensuring that it has enough bandwidth to allow telework. Officials said that they have restricted applications used for music […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to integrate artificial intelligence in two of its programs aimed at addressing electric grid cybersecurity and getting ahead of 5G deployment. While leaving out the specifics of AI involvement, William Scherlis, director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA, said the tech will be used in the Rapid […]
President Donald Trump has enacted the Secure 5G and Beyond Act, which requires the executive branch to create a strategy for protecting 5G and future network generations. Trump has three months to create a government-wide network security plan that includes 5G-related national security issues and the advancement of "responsible" development and deployment of the emerging […]
Lt. Col. Robert Carver, a spokesman for the Department of Defense, has asserted that the department does not plan on splitting the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract between Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. However, Carver told Breaking Defense that the DoD is open to possibly overturning the awarding of the JEDI contract. Carver further […]
Science Application International Corp. has awarded 1901 Group a subcontract for cloud migration services under the former's cloud computing contract with the Army. The subcontractor's cloud factory team shall migrate the Army's information technology infrastructure and enterprise application to a cloud environment. SAIC previously landed the contract under the IT Enterprise Solutions-3 contract vehicle. The 1901 […]
Government technologies are changing and starting to revolve around data, according to cloud service veterans who spoke during a webinar. Nathan McGuirt, a senior solutions architect at Amazon Web Services, said the modern challenge involves identifying valuable data from the silos of others. He said there is not as much effort in maintaining data integrity and availability […]
The Office of Management and Budget has requested $45.8B in emergency funding to support the government's efforts against the coronavirus outbreak. In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence, acting Director Russell Vought said the funds will be used for agency information technology upgrades to improve telework capacities and cybersecurity. He said the request is not intended […]
Sen. Michael Bennet has pressed the nation's three top health agencies to allow an investigation into their cybersecurity measures after a failed hack of the Department of Health and Human Services. He urged officials from HHS, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to allow the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency […]
John Bergin, deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Army for financial information management, discussed steps the military service is taking in implementing machine learning and how embracing shifting attitudes from top-level leadership, having the right team and tools, and adopting a fail-fast mentality are vital to adopting ML. Speaking during the AI Experience 2020 webcast, […]
The National Science Foundation is testing whether the combination of machine learning, blockchain technology and data science can help better evaluate its annual total of 60K grant applications. The experiment would integrate “digital fingerprints” to documents in hopes of streamlining federal grant processing. Dorothy Aronson, chief information officer of NSF, said the experiment offers a […]
