December 12, 2018
The schedule and session descriptions for the 2019 West Coast DON IT Conference are available. The conference is scheduled for Feb. 13-15 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Ca. No conference fee will be assessed, but registration is required. Registration is still open with limited TAD.
December 12, 2018
The USN/USMC Spectrum Summit West 2019 is scheduled for 19-21 March 2019 at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside hotel. No conference fee will be assessed, but registration is required.
The theme of the 2019 Spectrum Summits is the Electromagnetic Battle Space. To enable operational superiority, Spectrum, Electronic Warfare, Signal Intelligence, and Cyber must synchronize to enhance unity of effort. Issues include: How will future electromagnetic spectrum operations change from the way we operate today?
November 27, 2018
Awards will be presented in four categories: Individual and Team Excellence Awards for achievement related to spectrum supportability; a “Rising Star” Award to recognize up-and-coming talent in the Spectrum workforce; and the “John J. Lussier” Award to recognize strategic leadership in the Spectrum workforce. Nominations are due 1 February 2019.
October 29, 2018
A different cybersecurity awareness topic designed to help keep your information secure was posted each week of October. We end the month with a message from the Secretary of Defense encouraging us to remain vigilant in today’s information environment
October 22, 2018
Hacks, data breaches, and cybercrimes have become increasingly commonplace. While the Department of the Navy has staff dedicated to keeping its networks secure, it is up to each of us to take steps to protect ourselves and reduce our cyber risks. Each week in October a cybersecurity awareness topic provided by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency’s Threat Intelligence Center is featured. This week’s topic is Phishing.
by RDML Danelle Barrett, USN, Navy Cyber Security Division Director, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare (N2N6G) - October 17, 2018
The Navy is committed to being “all in” on transforming operations and business processes to leverage cloud technologies across the information warfighting platform through to the tactical edge. The operational advantages to warfighting with cloud technologies vice legacy client/server models are far reaching and include the ability to use micro-web services across the enterprise, as articulated in the Compile to Combat in 24 Hours (C2C24) architecture, and to store authoritative data once and have them reused by many different systems in the context needed for speed and accuracy of decision making.
October 15, 2018
Hacks, data breaches, and cybercrimes have become increasingly commonplace. While the Department of the Navy has staff dedicated to keeping its networks secure, it is up to each of us to take steps to protect ourselves and reduce our cyber risks. Each week in October a cybersecurity awareness topic provided by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency’s Threat Intelligence Center is featured. This week’s topic is Online Shopping.