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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
The Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) has released the 24th edition of its electronic newsletter, INSURV Insights, in ...
Friday, January 4, 2019
WASHINGTON -- Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan will use the <a ...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
DoD is required to use strong authentication credentials for network and IT system access, and the Common Access Card (CAC) ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) program office released its first ...
Monday, December 17, 2018
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) 2018 Chiefs of Transformation Conference concluded on Dec. 13 following two ...
Friday, December 14, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The Navy and Marine Corps have some readiness challenges, but both services are taking steps to address them, ...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Greetings, friends and colleagues!
<p>As the year draws to a close, I want to wish you all Happy Holidays! I am ...
Monday, December 3, 2018
In his message to the Defense Department workforce, Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said the DoD is dedicated ...
Monday, December 3, 2018
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. The Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC) held an orientation week for its newest ...
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Two Iranian men have been charged with deploying a sinister type of ransomware that crippled the operations of hospitals, ...
Monday, November 26, 2018
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. — U.S. Cyber Command is once again teaming up with the Air Force Personnel Center to host a Cyber ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -- Great power competition will require changes to DOD funding priorities and allocations to maintain ...
Friday, November 16, 2018
This week, the Department of Defense fulfilled its obligation to American taxpayers by completing a full-scope, ...
Friday, November 16, 2018
WASHINGTON -- Space, known as the final frontier, is something the Defense Department would like to explore, <a ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
At about 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 2, 1988, a maliciously clever program was unleashed on the internet from a computer at the ...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
The <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/ncsc-how-we-work/ncsc-nittf" alt='Link will open in a new ...
Monday, November 5, 2018
In his October message to the DoD team, Deputy Secretary of Defense <a ...
Monday, November 5, 2018
DAHLGREN, Va. – Navy leaders and local officials cut the ribbon for a new facility considered vital to the nation’s ...
Friday, October 26, 2018
On Oct. 25, the Defense Digital Service (DDS) announced the expansion of an initiative to cultivate and engage technical ...
Thursday, October 25, 2018
WASHINGTON -- Space is a crucial domain that the United States must continue to exploit and lead in, said Vice President ...
Monday, October 15, 2018
Due to increasing cyber threats around the world, U.S. Cyber Command officially became a unified combatant command in May. ...
Thursday, October 11, 2018
In the aftermath of the tragic shootings this year, there is often an increase in hoax threats to schools and other public ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The White House released a National Strategy for Counterterrorism, “the United States’ first robust and fully-articulated ...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Deputy Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan, on behalf of Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, presented a report, Assessing and ...
Thursday, October 4, 2018
ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT -- Freedom of navigation and issues of sovereignty were front and center as Navy Undersecretary ...
October-December 2018 Issue
Some may remember the 1960’s <em>Lost in Space</em> television show. At least once an episode the robot would ...
October-December 2018 Issue
Cyberspace is critical to the way the entire U.S. functions. In the Defense Department, it allows the military to gain ...
October-December 2018 Issue
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson released ‘A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority, ...
October-December 2018 Issue
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Department of the Navy (DON) released its business operations plan Oct. 24, establishing the ...
Monday, October 1, 2018
In his September message to the DoD team, Deputy Secretary of Defense <a ...
Monday, October 1, 2018
It's the beginning of a happy new year for the Department of Defense because for the first time in more than a decade, ...
October-December 2018 Issue
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a new strategy for speeding the development of quantum ...
October-December 2018 Issue
It has been said that each of us is special. And while that may be true of people, it does not apply to Department of the ...
October-December 2018 Issue
Defense Secretary James Mattis writes in a preamble to the <a href=" ...
October-December 2018 Issue
The Honorable <a href="http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=1031" alt='Link will open in a ...
October-December 2018 Issue
Connected devices are essential to our professional and personal lives, and criminals have gravitated to these platforms as ...
October-December 2018 Issue
One aspect of the Department of Defense and the Navy’s Insider Threat programs that has received a lot of news media ...
October-December 2018 Issue
<strong>The Navy Approach to Insider Threat</strong>
<p>Since the days of the Chelsea Manning and ...
Friday, September 28, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has created an easily accessible repository of terms and definitions ...
Thursday, September 27, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The theme for Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October will be "Remain vigilant, be accountable, stand ...
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Information is power; a concept Jack Lam, Matt Ward, and Bryan Stewart sought with their patent submission for a remote ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission, which works to promote competition and protect and educate consumers, released a staff report ...
Friday, September 21, 2018
An international competition led to the voluntary standard that today protects millions of IT systems, according to the ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
WASHINGTON -- People told the director of the <a href="http://www.dia.mil/" alt='Link will open in a new ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
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"The United States is committed to open and reliable access to information, which is vital to U.S. ...
Monday, September 17, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently launched the development of a voluntary privacy framework as an ...
Monday, September 10, 2018
Hello, friends and colleagues!
<p>The Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act was signed by the ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
The Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management and Comptroller (ASN FM&C) recognized Space and Naval ...
Monday, August 27, 2018
Cloud services can provide organizations the opportunity to increase their flexibility, availability, resiliency, and ...
Thursday, August 23, 2018
WASHINGTON -- China is not an enemy, but it is certainly an adversary of the United States, and the Defense Department’s ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
WASHINGTON -- President Donald J. Trump today signed the $717 billion Fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act at a ...
Thursday, August 2, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department applauds the passage of the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act at the ...
Thursday, July 26, 2018
On July 26, 1908, a “force of special agents” was created to conduct investigations for the Department of Justice. It marked ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
The general-purpose computer that we grew up with has remained the dominant computing architecture for the last 50 years, ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Big data analytics—the process of examining massive data sets containing a variety of data types to uncover hidden patterns, ...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides cryptographic key management guidance for defining and ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD) and the ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) for $49 million to Enterprise, LLC of ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
It goes without saying, the warfighter’s needs change at the speed of sound.
<p>Unfortunately for those on the front ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Maj. Gen. Lori Reynolds relinquished command of Marine Forces Cyberspace to Maj. Gen. Matthew Glavy during a Change of ...
Monday, July 2, 2018
Vice Adm. <a href="http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=609" alt='Link will open in a new ...
July-September 2018 Issue
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) (NNS) -- The U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) Staff Judge Advocate (SJA), ...
July-September 2018 Issue
Although cybersecurity is important every day, October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month provides the Navy with the ...
July-September 2018 Issue
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan issued a memo Aug. 3 to Defense Department personnel which prohibits the use of ...
July-September 2018 Issue
It is my pleasure to be selected to serve as Director, Office of the CIO (OCIO). The DON CIO recently consolidated and ...
July-September 2018 Issue
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) -- U.S. Fleet Cyber Command’s Office of Compliance and Assessment (OCA) and the Information ...
July-September 2018 Issue
If you are employed by the Department of Defense (DoD), chances are you require access to one or more information systems ...
July-September 2018 Issue
At the end of May 1942, the ships of <a href="https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/browse-by-topic/War and ...
July-September 2018 Issue
One of the key strategies of the <a href="https://www.performance.gov/PMA/" alt='Link will open in a new ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The adage “forewarned is forearmed” has entered the digital era at the <a ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan announced that <a ...
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Greetings!
<p>Last month DISA hosted the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Defensive Cyber ...
Thursday, June 21, 2018
FORT GEORGE G. MEAD, Md. (NNS) – Vice Adm. Timothy J. White relieved Vice Adm. Mike Gilday, as commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
The demand for electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) access is increasing. In order to satisfy the warfighters' spectrum needs, ...
Monday, June 11, 2018
WASHINGTON -- NATO defense ministers approved the creation of two new joint force commands and discussed burden sharing ...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Aerial drones might someday deliver online purchases to your home. But in some prisons, drone delivery is already a thing. ...
Friday, June 1, 2018
This week the departments of Commerce and Homeland Security released a report that provides guidance to government, civil ...
Thursday, May 31, 2018
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The name of <a href="http://www.pacom.mil/" alt='Link will open ...
Thursday, May 31, 2018
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) assured identity initiatives seek to establish and continuously validate a ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. — All 133 of <a href="http://www.cybercom.mil/" alt='Link will open in a new ...
Thursday, May 10, 2018
WASHINGTON -- Dana Deasy took his oath as the Defense Department’s chief information officer here May 7, and spoke on the ...
Thursday, May 10, 2018
WASHINGTON -- In the 15 months since Defense Secretary James N. Mattis assumed office, the Defense Department has made ...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
The terms Cyber Security, Cyber Space, and Cyber Domain are prevalent in all major news outlets and within the conference ...
Monday, May 7, 2018
WASHINGTON -- <a href="http://www.stratcom.mil/Media/Factsheets/Factsheet.../us-cyber-command-uscybercom/" ...
Friday, May 4, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The naval enterprise is investing in its people and capabilities to build a more lethal force in the age of ...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Hello, and happy spring!
<p>The past few months have been a whirlwind, but I wouldn’t trade it. It has been a ...
Thursday, April 19, 2018
PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Center for Information Warfare Training’s (CIWT) financial resources management team, or N8 ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (USD(A&S)) Ellen Lord announced the appointment of Jeff ...
Thursday, April 12, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing a publication that it said will help organizations to ...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The Army has been working to refine policies and practices to alleviate some of the stress surrounding ...
April-June 2018 Issue
It has been a great honor to serve as the Acting <a href="http://www.doncio.navy.mil/" alt='Link will open ...
April-June 2018 Issue
All 10 NAVSEA Warfare Center Divisions soon will be using the Electronic Cost Reporting and Financial Tracking (eCRAFT) ...
April-June 2018 Issue
Department of the Navy information management and information technology professionals gathered together to learn about the ...
April-June 2018 Issue
<strong>The Incident</strong>
<p>In February 2018, a breach of personally identifiable information (PII) ...
April-June 2018 Issue
Under Secretary Thomas Modly signed a memo June 5, 2018 establishing Department of the Navy policy that spectrum-related ...
April-June 2018 Issue
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) -- U.S. Fleet Cyber Command’s Office of Compliance and Assessment (OCA) launched its Command ...
April-June 2018 Issue
Under Secretary Modly signed a memo June 5, 2018 establishing that it is Department of the Navy policy to request and record ...
April-June 2018 Issue
By some accounts, Russian meddling in the US election system may have originated from the depths of a hot dog cart. It’s a ...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- By 2028, the U.S. Army will be fully ready to deploy, fight and win decisively against any adversary, ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
PORT HUENEME, Calif.—Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Warfare Centers are moving towards a revised model of the enterprise ...
Thursday, March 22, 2018
For the past three years, an important broker has had its eyes on a prime piece of property that it wants to allocate to ...
Friday, March 9, 2018
WASHINGTON, March 8, 2018 — The president’s <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/0218_Budget/" ...
Friday, March 9, 2018
WASHINGTON, March 8, 2018 — The Defense Department is advancing its efforts to include more women in peacebuilding and ...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) recently granted a Department of Defense Provisional Authorization (PA) to ...
Monday, February 5, 2018
NEWPORT, R.I. (NNS) -- U.S. Naval War College (NWC) has issued a "call for papers" in preparation of its 6th ...
Friday, February 2, 2018
Navy Vice Adm. Nancy A. Norton assumed command of the Joint Force Headquarters – Department of Defense Information Network ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
U.S. Navy Information Warfare (IW) will be featured at WEST 2018 at the San Diego Convention Center from Feb. ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) -- Less than a year after changing the name of the Joint Interagency Combined Space ...
Monday, January 29, 2018
“When you really get to see the breadth of what DISA does for the nation — not just in DoD, but across the nation — it’s ...
Monday, January 29, 2018
NIST has published <a href="https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-125a/final" alt='Link will ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Defense Information Systems Agency Service Product packages provide mission partner authorizing officials (AO) a holistic ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
The new <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018-National-Defense-Strategy-Summary.pdf" ...
January-March 2018 Issue
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The <a href="http://www.navy.mil/undersec/index.asp" alt='Link will open in a new ...
Thursday, December 21, 2017
At a dedicated event alongside the Chiefs of Transformation Conference 2017, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, ...
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Norfolk, VA – More than 470 participants from 52 countries took part in the 12th annual Chiefs of Transformation Conference ...
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT&L)) Ellen Lord today announced the ...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2017 — President Donald J. Trump today announced a new national security strategy rooted in a ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017
The U.S. Army Cyber Command commander swore in the headquarters' newest member of the Senior Executive Service during a ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017
WASHINGTON -- "The limiting factor for cyber effectiveness continues to revolve around policy and process," said ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 13, 2017 — Cyber capabilities are integral to everything the U.S. Special Operations Command does ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced their intent to enter into a <a ...
Friday, December 8, 2017
Ms. Essye B. Miller, a career member of the Senior Executive Service, was appointed by the Deputy Secretary of Defense as ...
Friday, December 1, 2017
Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis announced Nov. 30 that the president nominated Navy Rear Adm. Nancy A. Norton for ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2017 — The Defense Department is pledging to improve the way background investigations are done, ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
WASHINGTON -- Vast readiness improvements are a challenge worth taking because if they succeed, Soldiers on the ground will ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
In cooperation with DoD, federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
The acronym STEM—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—describes a range of academic disciplines that have ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
FORT MEADE, MD — Five cryptologic pioneers were inducted into the NSA/CSS Cryptologic Hall of Honor Nov. 2 at the National ...
Thursday, November 2, 2017
There’s no disputing the importance of a reliable and well-functioning critical infrastructure when it comes to our daily ...
Monday, October 30, 2017
The US Army Cyber Protection Brigade, or CPB, held the 2017 Cyber Stakes for the first time Sept. 18-27 at Fort Gordon, Ga. ...
October-December 2017 Issue
The Department of Defense is transitioning from the legacy Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation ...
October-December 2017 Issue
Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) review and approval is required for continued operation of a ...
October-December 2017 Issue
Breaches of personally Identifiable information (PII) happen all too frequently throughout the Department of the Navy (DON). ...
October-December 2017 Issue
One cannot pick up a newspaper, watch TV, listen to the radio, or scan the news on the internet without some direct or ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
<a href="https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8192/final" alt='Link will open in a new ...
Monday, August 28, 2017
Teams from the S-6 Communications Department aboard Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California, are currently switching ...
Monday, August 28, 2017
Navy <a href="http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=715" alt='Link will open in a new ...
Friday, August 4, 2017
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- On Aug. 3, Richard V. Spencer, a native of Connecticut, was sworn in as the 76th secretary of the Navy. ...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
The National Institute of Standards and Technology requests public comments on the release of Draft Special Publication ...
Thursday, July 13, 2017
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will hold a workshop ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is ...
Monday, July 3, 2017
The original states, except Rhode Island, collectively appointed 70 individuals to the Constitutional Convention. You may be ...
July-September 2017 Issue
The Department of Defense is transitioning from the legacy Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation ...
July-September 2017 Issue
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2017 — The U.S. military is today the most powerful and technologically advanced fighting force on the ...
July-September 2017 Issue
When your command experiences a breach of personally identifiable information (PII), will you be ready?
<p>Today, the ...
July-September 2017 Issue
SAN DIEGO – A $142 million-dollar recently awarded U.S. Navy acquisition, the Tactical Combat Training System Increment II ...
Friday, June 30, 2017
These three documents, known collectively as the Charters of Freedom, have secured the rights of the American people for ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Real-Time Spectrum Operations (RTSO) provides real-time spectrum awareness ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017
With more than 300 extremely quiet diesel-electric submarines patrolling the oceans, operated by more than 40 nations ...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
DoD is hosting an "Industry Information Day" on Friday, June 23, to present a briefing, and receive and address ...
Thursday, June 1, 2017
On May 11, 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order to strengthen federal networks and critical infrastructure ...
April-June 2017 Issue
Often what appears to be innovation is actually the result of incremental change applied to a problem over a long period of ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
When using a laptop at work and/or at home, you should be taking a few basic steps to keep your data safe and your system ...
Thursday, January 26, 2017
This month, the Department of Defense released the policy and procedure changes for reduction in force (RIF) for civilian ...
Monday, January 23, 2017
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- By a 98-1 vote, the Senate confirmed retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis to be the 26th secretary of ...
Friday, January 20, 2017
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 — The chairman of the <a href="http://www.jcs.mil/" alt='Link will open in a new ...
January-March 2017 Issue
I want to take this opportunity to encourage attendance at one of the 2017 DON IT conferences. These events, held twice each ...
January-March 2017 Issue
The privacy of an individual is a fundamental right that must be respected and protected. While improved handling and ...
January-March 2017 Issue
The threat of tax return identity theft remains a growing problem. Learn the signs of potential fraudulent activity, how to ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- As unmanned aerial systems, also called drones, become more popular, the Federal Aviation ...
Monday, December 12, 2016
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Senior Chief Petty Officer Tony Gonzales, an information warfare (IW) Sailor and San Antonio native, ...
Friday, November 11, 2016
Veterans Day is a special time of year for many Americans who, in some way, have formed a connection with a veteran or who ...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy joins the nation in celebrating American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage throughout the month ...
October-December 2016 Issue
In his <a href="http://www.navy.mil/cno/docs/cno_stg.pdf" alt='Link will open in a new window.' ...
October-December 2016 Issue
Join us at the DON IT Conference in San Diego, California, from 21-23 Feb! Learn about new and emerging IT policy and ...
October-December 2016 Issue
Registration is now open for the DON IT Conferences, on the West and East Coasts. The DON IT Conference, West Coast has been ...
October-December 2016 Issue
<a href="http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/About/Senior-Executives/Biographies/Haith,%20J.pdf" alt='Link ...
October-December 2016 Issue
The following is a recently reported compromise of personally identifiable information (PII) involving the loss of documents ...
October-December 2016 Issue
Greetings!
<p>Dear readers, are you overwhelmed with trying to remember 20 or more passwords for work and your ...
October-December 2016 Issue
With increasing frequency, we read about computer networks being hacked — in both the public and private sectors. You may ...
Thursday, September 29, 2016
CAMARILLO, Calif. – Ventura County students have a new tool to spark and develop their interest in science, technology, ...
July-September 2016 Issue
General Robert Neller has always been regarded as a tough, no-nonsense Marine, and as Commandant of the Marine Corps he has ...
July-September 2016 Issue
<strong><em>Introduction</strong><br/>
For the CHIPS July-September privacy theme edition, the DON ...
July-September 2016 Issue
Steve Muck is the Director for Privacy and Information Sharing for the <a href="http://www.doncio.navy.mil/" ...
July-September 2016 Issue
This Privacy Tip provides guidance regarding the reproduction (copy, scan, or other means) of CAC and military ...
Thursday, May 19, 2016
The Secretary of the Navy has signed an updated Department of the Navy Cybersecurity Instruction, SECNAVINST 5239.3C, dated ...
Thursday, May 19, 2016
DAHLGREN, Va. — Is it possible to produce parts and equipment from scratch for Sailors — aboard ships and on demand? ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Two new mobile apps that provide required Navy General Military Training (GMT) on Records Management (RM) and Privacy and ...
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Security requirements, mutual communication, and lessons learned are key topics in the secret mobility arena for the Defense ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2016 — Over the past year U.S. Cyber Command has continued building capability and capacity and made ...
April-June 2016 Issue
Erle Marion is the commercial hosting lead for <a ...
April-June 2016 Issue
We often hear how natural resources drive economies, such as clean water, fossil fuels, minerals and metals. ...
April-June 2016 Issue
Most everyone is familiar with the concept of communication. We engage each other on a daily basis using the various ...
April-June 2016 Issue
<em>The views expressed here are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of ...
April-June 2016 Issue
Imagine this: One day, you are in the middle of running errands and a friend calls you and asks “When did you join OkCupid, ...
April-June 2016 Issue
The United Nations <a href="http://www.itu.int/en/Pages/default.aspx" alt='Link will open in a new ...
Thursday, March 31, 2016
For many years, when you swiped your credit card, your number would be stored on the card reader, making encryption ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) -- The pilot class for the revised Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System recently graduated after ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, released his command's Electromagnetic ...
Friday, March 25, 2016
DARPA today announced the newest of its Grand Challenges, one designed to ensure that the exponentially growing number of ...
Thursday, March 24, 2016
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2016 — Information technology and cyber program priorities for the Defense Department’s chief ...
Thursday, March 3, 2016
On March 2, <a href="http://www.navy.mil/cno/index.asp" alt='Link will open in a new window.' ...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
WASHINGTON, March 2, 2016 — As the clash between cybersecurity and privacy concerns lingers in the headlines and the courts ...
Friday, February 26, 2016
<em>Editor’s Note: Sailors find the greatest mentorship by watching their leader’s everyday actions. Often times we do ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
The DON IT Conference has been approved and will be held Feb. 17-18, 2016, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
The Department of Defense released today the Military Intelligence Program (MIP) top line budget request for fiscal year ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2017 defense budget request provides the resources for implementing America’s national ...
Monday, February 8, 2016
Today’s black Sailors stand proudly knowing the accomplishments of their predecessors, including the eight black Sailors who ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
At the Defense Department’s highest levels, the search is on for advanced tech. After attracting and keeping the men and ...
Friday, January 15, 2016
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is joining the blogosphere with Taking Measure.
<p>The ...
January-March 2016 Issue
In early 2013, the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) took steps to significantly improve their privacy program. What began ...
January-March 2016 Issue
The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 DON IT Awards. ...
January-March 2016 Issue
The DON IT Conference, East Coast 2016 and the USN-USMC Electromagnetic Spectrum Summit begin on Wednesday, April 20 at the ...
January-March 2016 Issue
The theft of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from major retailers, financial institutions and the Federal ...
January-March 2016 Issue
LT John Smith looked up from his iPhone, his eyes wide with shock. He looked quickly to his left and right, checking to see ...
January-March 2016 Issue
<a href="http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=426" alt='Link will open in a new window.' ...
January-March 2016 Issue
Let’s be honest at the outset: there is no way that we’ve found to present an informational article about the ISO/IEC ...
January-March 2016 Issue
Attempting to address the cybersecurity of medical devices is undoubtedly a daunting task. Without exception, the medical ...
January-March 2016 Issue
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus issued an updated Department of the Navy Diversity and ...
January-March 2016 Issue
In November 2014, the Secretary of Defense cited America’s eroding dominance in key warfighting areas when calling for “a ...
January-March 2016 Issue
The United States uses a bifurcated process to manage its electromagnetic spectrum resources. The National ...
January-March 2016 Issue
Held during the DON IT Conference, the 3-day Electromagnetic Spectrum Summit will provide an opportunity to bring together ...
Friday, November 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, November 19, 2015 — Two specific emerging challenges are among those that concern Navy Adm. Mike Rogers, ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
SUFFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- When you think of “The Adventure Park at Virginia Aquarium,” you think of a fun filled day with family ...
Monday, October 26, 2015
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service Cyber Department utilizes advanced cyber technologies and methodologies to identify ...
Thursday, October 22, 2015
NAVADMIN 239/15 - Publish Date: 10/13/15<br/>
This NAVADMIN describes how, starting October 2015, the Navy has ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Most of us have developed a very close relationship with our mobile devices: we carry them with us throughout the day, check ...
Thursday, October 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, October 14, 2015 — The Defense Department recently announced an effort to help individuals throughout the ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released <a ...
Friday, October 9, 2015
Since 2009, the Department of the Navy (DON) has been decisively procuring renewable energy to increase energy security and ...
Thursday, October 8, 2015
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The cyber threat is real. No country, industry, community, or individual is immune to cyber risks, so ...
October-December 2015 Issue
The following narrative is a recently reported Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data breach incident involving ...
October-December 2015 Issue
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic’s Cyber Forensics Criminal Investigations (CFIX) Laboratory has become the ...
October-December 2015 Issue
The use of spectrum technology has fueled innovation in diverse environments for many years. In the wireless environment, ...
Monday, September 28, 2015
WASHINGTON, September 25, 2015 — Navy Adm. Michael S. Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, previewed an ...
Thursday, August 20, 2015
The Defense Department issued DoD Directive 8140.01 Aug. 11, 2015, to update and expand established policies and assigned ...
Monday, August 10, 2015
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the final version of its <a ...
Friday, August 7, 2015
Register today before it is too late. Each event has its own URL to learn more details about specific event listed ...
July-September 2015 Issue
The United Nation (UN) International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will convene the World Radiocommunication Conferences ...
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Today, April 30, 2015, the Navy Fact File contains descriptions of the roles and characteristics of Navy ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2015 – The Defense Department has maintained a steady $12 billion investment in science and technology ...
Thursday, April 23, 2015
The Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) financial management professionals are actively pursuing DoD certification ...
Friday, April 10, 2015
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2015 – The United States must maintain technological superiority over potential adversaries and ...
April-June 2015 Issue
The following “Ask the Expert” question was recently posted on the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON ...
April-June 2015 Issue
This article discusses a recent Department of the Navy (DON) Personally Identifiable Information (PII) breach involving a ...
April-June 2015 Issue
<a href="http://www.act.nato.int/" alt='Link will open in a new window.' target='whole'> ...
April-June 2015 Issue
Encroachment issues commonly occur between neighbors when homeowners add a new feature to their home that extends onto ...
April-June 2015 Issue
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released The Standards of Conduct as Applied to Personal Social Media Use April 9. ...
Thursday, March 26, 2015
The Department of Commerce (DOC) and Department of Defense (DoD) have signed a <a ...
Friday, March 6, 2015
WASHINGTON — Over five years of U.S. Cyber Command operations, global movement of threat activity through cyberspace has ...
Friday, March 6, 2015
<a href="http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=85857" alt='Link will open in a new ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Virginia—The spirit of competition in industry just saved the Marine Corps $2 million. By ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
WASHINGTON, March 2, 2015 – Navy <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/about/leadership/bio_rogers.shtml" alt='Link will ...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Today [Feb 2] the Department of the Navy submitted our FY16 budget request of $161.0 billion to Congress. Here’s what it ...
Monday, February 2, 2015
Final preparations have been made for the DON IT Conference, Feb. 10-12, 2015, at the San Diego Convention Center in San ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (NNS) -- Final preparations are underway to launch the Navy's latest communications satellite that will ...
Thursday, January 8, 2015
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2015 – The Defense Department’s top acquisitions official today released a new version of the ...
January-March 2015 Issue
A recently issued Defense Department directive, DoDD 5144.02, clarifies the many responsibilities of the DoD Chief ...
January-March 2015 Issue
The following article discusses the final outcome of the largest Department of the Navy (DON) personally identifiable ...
January-March 2015 Issue
Historically in the Department of the Navy (DON), the organizations within the financial management (FM) and information ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Every day in the Navy, rounds are fired, fuel is burned, and meals are consumed by our men and women who stand the watch. ...
Monday, December 8, 2014
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy took its first big step toward achieving a congressional mandate, Dec. 4, when a contract was ...
Monday, November 10, 2014
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2014 – The Defense Department is pushing forward on information technology such as cloud computing, ...
Monday, November 10, 2014
Suffolk, Va. (NNS) -- Navy Information Dominance Forces (NAVIDFOR) Command recently held two Cybersecurity Waterfront ...
Thursday, October 30, 2014
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2014 – Cyber is the ultimate team sport, and it will take true partnerships between defense and ...
Monday, October 27, 2014
Charities fraud occurs when an individual or group deliberately misrepresents its fundraising intentions or solicits ...
Friday, October 24, 2014
Social networks are a great way to stay connected with others, but you should be wary about how much personal information ...
Friday, October 3, 2014
Every day, American consumers receive offers that just sound too good to be true. In the past, these offers came through the ...
Thursday, October 2, 2014
FORT MEADE, Md., Oct. 1, 2014 – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on new ways to protect information ...
Thursday, October 2, 2014
The number and sophistication of phishing scams sent out to consumers is continuing to increase dramatically. While online ...
October-December 2014 Issue
The FEWC is a directorate within the Commander, <a href="http://www.navidfor.navy.mil" alt='Link will open in a ...
October-December 2014 Issue
What do WSC-3 radios, Spy-1 radar and telemetry pods have in common? They operate using radio frequencies allocated for ...
October-December 2014 Issue
<em>"We're using the Electromagnetic Spectrum as a domain and as a means, and we understand and grasp it. We have ...
October-December 2014 Issue
In <u>Milner v. the Department of the Navy</u>, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan stated, “[W]e acknowledge ...
October-December 2014 Issue
When we talk about reallocating spectrum assignments from the Defense Department for public use, it is easy to think that as ...
October-December 2014 Issue
Simply stated, frequency management is the process of acquiring authority to operate a particular device at a location on a ...
October-December 2014 Issue
The following is a recently reported breach of personally identifiable information involving PII left behind in a vacated ...
Friday, August 1, 2014
Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, directed the <a ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
We delivered to Congress July 3 our annual long-range plan for the construction of naval combatant and support vessels for ...
Friday, July 11, 2014
On July 11, 1798, President John Adams approved "An Act for Establishing and Organizing a Marine Corps", and it ...
July-September 2014 Issue
<a href=" http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/About/Senior-Executives/Biographies/Sawyer,%20D.pdf" alt='Link will ...
July-September 2014 Issue
The Department of the Navy (DON) is gearing up to be a leading participant in a new web-based system intended to make public ...
July-September 2014 Issue
The following is a recently reported breach of personally identifiable information (PII) involving the improper mapping of a ...
July-September 2014 Issue
During the CIO Town Hall at the DON IT Conference in June, I briefed the audience on several information technology ...
Monday, June 16, 2014
The DON IT Conference will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, beginning Tuesday, June 24, ...
Thursday, June 5, 2014
The Department of the Navy Information Technology Conference has been approved for June 24-25, 2014, and will be held at the ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Reducing Administrative Distractions Round 2 was officially launched May 15. Participation is open to all Sailors, active ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
The Marine Corps recently launched a website and mobile application, which outline its operational and structural ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) team ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
WASHINGTON – It was a simple pottery jar with cork in it. But when the team from the Underwater Archaeology Branch (UAB) of ...
April-June 2014 Issue
Commander, Naval Network Warfare Command Capt. Eugene Costello and Commanding Officer, Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command ...
April-June 2014 Issue
The following is a recently reported breach of personally identifiable information (PII) involving the theft of documents ...
April-June 2014 Issue
FORT MEADE, Md (NNS) -- Navy Adm. Michael S. Rogers assumed command of U.S. Cyber Command and became director of the ...
April-June 2014 Issue
Rosters serve a useful and valid purpose for communicating important information to command personnel and their families, ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Department of the Navy released its proposed $148 billion budget for fiscal year 2015 (FY15), March ...
Thursday, February 20, 2014
The Department of Defense announced Feb. 20 the release of its Electromagnetic Spectrum Strategy (EMS) to increase available ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The Department of Defense and U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) jointly released a report today, “Improving ...
January-March 2014 Issue
The Department of the Navy continues to take steps to eliminate the unnecessary collection and use of Social Security ...
January-March 2014 Issue
<em>“Our mission is to create a decisive warfighting advantage for the United States Navy by accurate and timely ...
January-March 2014 Issue
This article takes terms commonly associated with electromagnetic spectrum and presents them in plain language and within ...
January-March 2014 Issue
According to a 2011 Presidential Executive Order, an Insider Threat is “a person with authorized access who uses that access ...
January-March 2014 Issue
In light of the Navy’s increased focus on Insider Threats and the stand-up of the Insider Threat to Cyber Security team ...
July-September 2013 Issue
The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) Privacy Team receives numerous personally identifiable ...
July-September 2013 Issue
Background and Definitions
In the 21st century, information has become an increasingly vital element of organizational and ...
July-September 2013 Issue
The Department of the Navy (DON) continues to issue policy to improve its processes and better ensure that the personally ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The DON IT Conference, East Coast 2013 will not be held in Virginia Beach this year due to budget and travel restrictions. ...
April-June 2013 Issue
The following is a recently reported personally identifiable information (PII) data breach involving the storage of paper ...
Monday, March 11, 2013
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is answering a Sailor’s request for delivery of new flight deck clothing ...
January-March 2013 Issue
The following is a recently reported personally identifiable information (PII) data breach involving the transmission of an ...
January-March 2013 Issue
The department of the Navy’s highly skilled electromagnetic spectrum professionals are more vital to the mission today than ...
October-December 2012 Issue
What does it mean to be audit-ready?
Audit readiness is a state of being prepared at all times to demonstrate proper manual ...
October-December 2012 Issue
The following is a recently reported personally identifiable information (PII) data breach involving
a private medical ...
October-December 2012 Issue
The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) Privacy Office receives frequent inquiries regarding paper ...
July-September 2012 Issue
The Secretary of Defense has challenged the Department of the Navy (DON) to achieve audit readiness with its Statement of ...
July-September 2012 Issue
The following is a recently reported personally identifiable information (PII) data breach. Names have been changed or ...
July-September 2012 Issue
The final step in the dynamic federal agency spectrum access process within the United States is receiving a radio frequency ...
July-September 2012 Issue
As the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) Mr. Charles E. Cook, III ...
July-September 2012 Issue
Tom Hicks was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy in March 2010. Mr. Hicks serves as the Secretariat ...
July-September 2012 Issue
For many years, the Electronic Data Interchange-Personal Identifier (EDI-PI) has been a unique identifier for personnel ...
April-June 2012 Issue
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) and Naval Medical Center San Diego hosted a senior leadership panel ...
April-June 2011 Issue
<b>Section 508: Why Comply?</b>
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<b>It's the law!</b> Section 508 of the ...
January-March 2011 Issue
As the DON CIO, Mr. Halvorsen heads the Office of the DON CIO and is the DON's senior official and adviser on matters ...
January-March 2011 Issue
The Social Security number (SSN) has evolved beyond its intended purpose to become the identifier of choice for many of the ...
July-September 2010 Issue
Energy consumption poses geopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges that call for aggressive technology and policy ...
April-June 2010 Issue
The growth and diversity of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the first decade of the 21st century has been ...
October-December 2009 Issue
The following is a recently reported compromise of personally identifiable information (PII) involving the theft of storage ...
January-March 2009 Issue
The Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for the Next Generation Enterprise Network released the Draft NGEN Block 1, ...
January-March 2009 Issue
In less than two years, nearly 150 distinguished ambassadors and more than 2,000 delegates from across the globe will gather ...
October-December 2008 Issue
<i>Transitioning from DITSCAP to DIACAP involves much more than policy changes; it requires whole new ways of looking ...
April-June 2008 Issue
Federal regulation and Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of the Navy (DON) policy require that spectrum ...
January-March 2008 Issue
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is the primary law enforcement and counterintelligence arm of the Department of the ...
October-December 2007 Issue
The Department of the Navy (DON) is a dynamic enterprise with personnel constantly on the move between the office, temporary ...
October-December 2007 Issue
For more than 60 years the electronics industry has relied on tin-lead solder as the primary bond between electronic ...
July-September 2007 Issue
The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) signed a DON Open Source Software (OSS) Guidance Memorandum ...
July-September 2007 Issue
The Navy and Marine Corps' role in the global war on terror requires the rapid development of new capabilities to defeat ...
April-June 2007 Issue
Consider this scenario: a major university in the Eastern United States finds that its Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps ...
April-June 2007 Issue
The Department of Defense (DoD) is modifying the current Common Access Card (CAC) to meet the mandates of Homeland Security ...
October-December 2006 Issue
October 2006 marked the implementation date for issuing federal identification credentials in accordance with the Homeland ...
July-September 2006 Issue
<i>"Each federal agency shall develop, document, and implement an agencywide information security program to ...
October-December 2005 Issue
<b>FISMA Fundamentals</b>
<p>The Department of the Navy (DON) is required to comply with the Federal ...
July-September 2005 Issue
<b>Introduction</b>
<p>This article discusses the responsibilities of Department of the Navy (DON) ...
April-June 2005 Issue
Mentoring young professionals and guiding and inspiring the workforce is a top priority for the Navy-Marine Corps leadership ...
October-December 2004 Issue
The Department of the Navy (DON) has updated its initial guidance on the use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) by issuing ...
July-September 2004 Issue
New Orleans was hot June 20-23, but it just wasn't the temperatures. The 2004 NMCI Industry Symposium, a forum for ...
January-March 2004 Issue
<b>What is FISMA?</b>
<p>The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) is contained ...
October-December 2003 Issue
<em>Editor’s Note of January 2017: Please use the ESI website for all contract and purchasing information. The ITEC ...
July-September 2002 Issue
<i>"The Department of the Navy Electronic Records Management System (DON ERMS) Working Group has a mission to ...
January-March 2002 Issue
<i>Mr. Ehrler was a featured speaker at Virtual Connecting Technology (CT) Fall 2001. This update has been edited from ...
January-March 2001 Issue
<b>Background</b>
<p>The Department of Defense (DoD) has a long-standing commitment to providing equal ...
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