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Today, August 14, 2020
Cyber threats against the United States and the Defense Department are very real, and efforts related to the department's ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
The National Institute of Standards and Technology announces the final publication of Special Publication (SP) 800-207, Zero ...
Monday, August 10, 2020
The Defense Department must be more innovative and act faster in its pursuit of putting new technology in warfighters' ...
Monday, August 10, 2020
The Defense Department will host the second annual DoD Chief Information Officer Global Virtual Town Hall meeting Aug. 12 ...
Friday, August 7, 2020
Clear guidance early on from Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper ensured the Defense Department would be able to ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
The National Security Agency released a Limiting Location Data Exposure Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) to guide ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Draft Special Publication 800-53B provides three security control ...
Monday, August 3, 2020
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released core guidance documentation for the Trusted Internet ...
Monday, August 3, 2020
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released NIST SP 800-210 General Access Control Guidance for Cloud ...
Friday, July 31, 2020
The National Defense Strategy, which provides momentum to the Defense Department, also drives its information technology ...
Thursday, July 30, 2020
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that it will host its 3rd annual National ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
PENSACOLA, Fla. – In an effort to preserve and use hard-won historical experience, or lessons learned, to better accomplish ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
The Defense Department has three priorities for dealing with COVID-19: protecting the entire force and their families, ...
Monday, July 27, 2020
U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) officially signaled the arrival of its headquarters at Fort Gordon, Ga., with the uncasing ...
Monday, July 27, 2020
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Capt. Marc W. Ratkus relieved Capt. Nicholas “Nick” Andrews II as commanding officer of the Center for ...
Thursday, July 23, 2020
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency took on leading cybersecurity experts to support the agency’s COVID-19 ...
Thursday, July 23, 2020
ADELPHI, Md. -- Cyberattacks and the extent of their damage have increased in recent years. In response, Army researchers ...
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Navy Vice Adm. Nancy A. Norton, the director of Defense Information Systems Agency and commander of Joint Force ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
WASHINGTON -- Army network leaders highlighted progress on cloud computing efforts Wednesday, including a pilot that is ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Storage infrastructure—along with compute (encompassing OS and host hardware) and network infrastructures—is one of the ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
One of the most critical and important missions of the Defense Department is ensuring that the 2020 elections are protected ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
FT. MEADE, Md. — In response to Russian Intelligence Services targeting COVID-19 research and vaccine development in the ...
Friday, July 17, 2020
The Department of Defense Chief Information Office is hosting a Global Town Hall Aug. 12 from 1300 to 1430 EST on the ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Millions of federal workers are now working from their homes because of the Coronavirus pandemic. This expansive ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Rear Adm. Kathleen M. Creighton will be assigned as director, information warfare integration, N2/N6F, Office of the Chief ...
July-September 2020 Issue
Now more than ever, during this time of mass telework, we need to be vigilant about protecting our data. Like sentries ...
July-September 2020 Issue
As information and technology become more integrated and important in our professional and personal lives, it is imperative ...
July-September 2020 Issue
The Department of Defense Chief Information Officer announced on Twitter a new interactive tool for the DoD cyber ...
July-September 2020 Issue
Prior to the Department of the Navy’s adoption of the ''Commercial Virtual Remote'' (CVR) collaboration environment, a ...
July-September 2020 Issue
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md (NNS) – On July 31, the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command / U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) released its ...
July-September 2020 Issue
Effective April 2020, the office of primary responsibility for the remediation and auditability of Information Technology ...
July-September 2020 Issue
In my last message I discussed how the DON rapidly met the challenge of supporting a record number of teleworkers due to ...
July-September 2020 Issue
Rear Adm. Kathleen M. Creighton responded to questions in late July.
CHIPS: Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 ...
July-September 2020 Issue
Nearly half a century ago, Vice Admiral Jon L. Boyes, OPNAV Director for C4I and Naval Communications, (1973-1976) said, ...
July-September 2020 Issue
Defense Department teleworkers have, by and large, continued the mission without being in a brick-and-mortar structure, a ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. — For the first time in its history, – U.S. Cyber Command is employing a new virtual training ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
CRANE, Ind. –Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) and Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic ...
Monday, June 22, 2020
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Army researchers along with their academic partners are pioneering a novel cyber security ...
Monday, June 22, 2020
This Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer GENADMIN message updates DON policy for the mandatory physical ...
Monday, June 22, 2020
It's essential to modernize the Defense Department's perimeter-based security models and compliance requirements that ...
Friday, June 19, 2020
The greatest fear of many organizations became one Atlanta-based tech company’s reality. However, the steps the company took ...
Thursday, June 18, 2020
The National Institute of Standards and Technology published Special Publication (SP) 1800-16, Securing Web Transactions: ...
Monday, June 15, 2020
WASHINGTON - The Secretary of the Army and Chief of Staff of the Army announced the realignment of the Chief Information ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Summary
The National Institute of Standards and Technology requests review and comments on the four-volume set of ...
Monday, June 8, 2020
Go outside your comfort zone; keep strengthening your skills; engage with people from different backgrounds; and remember ...
Friday, June 5, 2020
Because of COVID-19, many U.S. Government employees and military service members are working from home to provide continuity ...
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Digital forensics experts often extract data from computers and mobile phones that may contain evidence of a crime. Now, ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
On March 23, 2020, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Ms. Ellen Lord, and Mr. Ty Schieber, Chairman ...
Monday, June 1, 2020
The Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Crime Center (DC3) and the National Defense Information Sharing and Analysis Center ...
Friday, May 29, 2020
FORT LEE, Va., May 26, 2020 — The Defense Contract Management Agency’s Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment ...
Friday, May 29, 2020
As microservices-based applications are increasingly deployed within large enterprises and cloud-based environments, ...
Friday, May 29, 2020
In February of this year, the Department of Defense officially adopted its Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence ...
Friday, May 29, 2020
FORT MEADE, Md. , May 28, 2020 — Russian military cyber actors, publicly known as Sandworm Team, have been exploiting a ...
Thursday, May 28, 2020
U.S. Cyber Command congratulates the men and women of USCYBERCOM on a great 10 years May 21. “We have much to be thankful ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Federal agencies are directed to implement a program to continuously monitor their organizational information security ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Ten years ago, U.S. Cyber Command passed its first milestone: the ability to conduct cyberspace operations as the new ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Microelectronics are in nearly everything, including the complex weapons systems the Defense Department buys, such as the ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
The DON CIO is closely monitoring updates to the evolving Coronavirus outbreak situation, and the latest DON and DON CIO ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy saluted the Defense Information Systems Agency on its 60th ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
For the second year in a row, Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic Detachment Jacksonville ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
The Federal Communications Commission's granting of a license to a private company threatens to undermine the Defense ...
Friday, May 8, 2020
The Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, OPNAV N2N6, Vice Adm. Matthew J. Kohler, updated guidance to ...
Friday, May 8, 2020
Artificial intelligence is a rapidly advancing technology that will change most, if not all, aspects of modern life. For the ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Mail servers and computer workstations running mail clients are frequently targeted by malicious attackers and cyber ...
Friday, May 1, 2020
In today’s cloud data centers and edge computing environment, attack surfaces have significantly increased, hacking has ...
Thursday, April 30, 2020
When known software vulnerabilities are unmanaged, uncorrected, or undetected, attack vectors are open to exploitation. As a ...
Monday, April 27, 2020
Many U.S. Government employees and military service members are working from home to provide continuity of government ...
Friday, April 24, 2020
The National Institute of Standard and technology published a new Cybersecurity White Paper: Mitigating the Risk of Software ...
Thursday, April 23, 2020
This proclamation was first posted on White House.gov on April 15th, 2020.
While there is no shortage of coronavirus ...
Thursday, April 23, 2020
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in disruptions to everyday life for many with shelter-in-place and other social ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
To keep business on track during the fight against coronavirus, the Defense Department has greatly expanded its telework ...
Friday, April 10, 2020
Year round, the National Cyber Security Alliance encourages everyone to be safe and secure online, however, during times of ...
Monday, April 6, 2020
PENSACOLA, Fla. – Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Corry Station Cryptologic Technician Collection (CTR) ...
Monday, April 6, 2020
Due to the threat of Coronavirus, and under guidelines and restrictions released by the Federal Government and the Governor ...
April-June 2020 Issue
The Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, OPNAV N2N6, Vice Adm. Matthew J. Kohler, updated guidance to ...
April-June 2020 Issue
In 2018, external auditors identified 2,300-plus Notice of Findings and Recommendations (NFRs) across the Department of the ...
April-June 2020 Issue
Greetings!
Hope you are doing well in the trying times we are living in today. It’s been said you can tell the true grit of ...
April-June 2020 Issue
In April, the Defense Department's chief information officer said some of the tools and infrastructure put in place to ...
April-June 2020 Issue
ARLINGTON, Va. (NNS) -- On May 13, 2020, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Information Warfare and Enterprise ...
April-June 2020 Issue
Vice Adm. Jeff Trussler, a native of Oklahoma and a member of the Cherokee Nation, assumed duties as deputy chief of Naval ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
On Wednesday, April 8, 2020 from 2:00 – 3:30 PM ET, National Institute of Standards and Technology is hosting a virtual ...
April-June 2020 Issue
NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD, Portsmouth, Va. — Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s (NNSY) IT Department recently received a full ...
April-June 2020 Issue
”FCC/C10F and executive stakeholders (Office of the CIO, OPNAV N2N6, FCC/C10F, NAVWAR Cybersecurity Technical Authority, ...
April-June 2020 Issue
The Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, Vice Adm. Matthew J. Kohler, released NAVADMIN 148/20 to ...
April-June 2020 Issue
Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) and Space Systems continues ...
April-June 2020 Issue
As COVID-19 spread across the world, life as we knew it changed. Within a matter of weeks, school districts and colleges ...
April-June 2020 Issue
Change in the Department of the Navy (DON) is a regular occurrence with the establishment and disestablishment of projects ...
April-June 2020 Issue
The Department of the Navy Information Technology (DON IT) Conference, East Coast 2020 has been rescheduled for Nov. 4-6, ...
April-June 2020 Issue
By the time you read this article, the 2020 Census will be well underway and many of you will have already responded to the ...
April-June 2020 Issue
It was late February, just three months ago, that we were preparing for the DON IT Conference in San Diego. At the time ...
Friday, March 27, 2020
The Administration released the highly anticipated National Strategy to Secure 5G of the United States this week. The ...
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Today mobile devices are ubiquitous and indispensable in navigating our personal lives as well as for businesses and ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is releasing Draft NISTIR 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
The National Institute of Standard and Technology published NISTIR 8170, Approaches for Federal Agencies to Use the ...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Your employer has unexpectedly directed you to telework—and you are feeling overwhelmed—you still have deadlines to meet and ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The National Institute of Standards and Technology warned there is an urgent need to strengthen the trustworthiness and ...
Friday, March 13, 2020
The Defense Department is focusing a lot of effort on an array of technologies involving quantum science, but the ...
Friday, March 13, 2020
The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer Aaron Weis was the Monday luncheon keynote speaker at the WEST ...
Thursday, March 12, 2020
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- U.S. Marines with II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group and Marine Forces Cyber Command ...
Thursday, March 12, 2020
The Defense Information Systems Agency is offering classes open to all Department of Defense employees – military, ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) – U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) announced the 2019 Civilians of the ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
CORONADO, Calif. -- Vice Adm. Brian B. Brown, Commander, Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) held an all-hands call for ...
Monday, March 9, 2020
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) - Personnel, assigned to U.S.10th Fleet, spoke on a variety of subjects March 2-3 at WEST ...
Monday, March 9, 2020
The 2018 Defense Department cyber strategy prioritizes the challenge of great-power competition and recognizes that DoD must ...
Friday, March 6, 2020
The Defense Department is preparing to use 5G in its networks and prevent adversaries from hacking into it, a DoD official ...
Friday, March 6, 2020
The Defense Information Systems Agency is offering classes open to all Department of Defense employees – military, ...
Thursday, March 5, 2020
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a draft revision to its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Greetings friends, colleagues and mission partners. In the first Drumbeat of this year, I am going to provide a state of the ...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
SUITLAND (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy Cyber Warfare Development Group (NCWDG) celebrated the opening of the Cyber Foundry with a ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
FORT MEADE, Md., Feb. 12, 2020 — The breadth of talent and expertise across the private industry offers vast potential for ...
Monday, February 10, 2020
Voting has begun for the 2020 presidential election primary season — but it's not the beginning of the U.S. government's ...
Monday, February 10, 2020
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) – U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) today announced the All Navy Cyber ...
Friday, February 7, 2020
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Imagine a secure communications room, like what has been shown in big-screen blockbuster ...
Thursday, February 6, 2020
ARLINGTON, Va. (NNS) (NNS) -- On Feb. 5, 2020, the Navy awarded the Service Management, Integration and Transport (SMIT) ...
Thursday, February 6, 2020
To complement the release of recommendations for business and industry to secure their supply chains with Key Practices in ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) -- Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Virginia Beach graduated Sailors from updated ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Reducing cybersecurity risk in global supply chains is the goal of a new publication by the National Institute of Standards ...
Friday, January 31, 2020
Members from the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce visited Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) Jan. 28 ...
Thursday, January 30, 2020
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) – U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) celebrated its 10th anniversary during ...
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Jan. 29, 2020 — With the Iowa Caucuses just days away, the U.S. Government is committed to protecting and defending the ...
Thursday, January 30, 2020
While the Defense Department is modernizing and undergoing needed reform and improving readiness, adversaries are moving ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy evidence and evade arrest. They might smash, shoot, ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Network administrators and information security officers have an opportunity to assess new tools and guides to stem the ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
NORFOLK, VA – Capt. Harold Cole, commanding officer of Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command (NCDOC) was a keynote speaker ...
Thursday, January 23, 2020
InfoDOMAIN, the official online magazine of Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR), the Naval Information Warfighting ...
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to grow the economy and improve our lives, but with these benefits, it also brings new ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
MONTEREY, Calif. – Vice Adm. Brian B. Brown, commander, Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR), visited Information Warfare ...
Friday, January 17, 2020
The Defense Information Systems Agency's mission is to provide, operate and defend global command and control and ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
FORT MEADE, Md., Jan. 14, 2020 — On January 14, Microsoft released a set of patches for the Windows platform. While all of ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The most important thing you can do for your cybersecurity is to update your software – and if you’re a Windows user, today ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Federal agencies, under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) and Office of Management and ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
To achieve its mission, DISA has to prioritize close collaboration and information sharing at headquarters, field commands ...
Friday, January 10, 2020
Gen. David H. Berger, the 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps, visited Lasswell Hall Thursday. The visit was his first ...
Friday, January 10, 2020
PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- Officers now have opportunities to earn civilian certifications and licenses funded through Navy ...
Friday, January 3, 2020
CORONA, California (NNS) -- With a little help from the Navy, Marines are ringing in the New Year with a new set of tools to ...
January-March 2020 Issue
Aaron Weis was named Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy for Information Management and Department of the Navy ...
January-March 2020 Issue
These recommendations from the Defense Information Systems Agency pertain to unclassified systems only.
Network ...
January-March 2020 Issue
Background
Over the last few years, the importance of fully exploiting organizational data for data-driven decisions has ...
January-March 2020 Issue
The United States utilizes radar systems for various domestic missions. These systems create the backbone of our nation’s ...
January-March 2020 Issue
By the end of September, the Defense Department will require at least some companies bidding on defense contracts to certify ...
January-March 2020 Issue
The Department of the Navy Privacy Team works diligently to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of ...
January-March 2020 Issue
With the announcement of Secretary Modly's resignation, I have gotten a number of questions from members of our community, ...
January-March 2020 Issue
The Department of the Navy is at a critical time in its history. As a Department, we lack mastery of our Information ...
January-March 2020 Issue
On April 1, the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer released the memo "Amplifying Guidance to the DON ...
January-March 2020 Issue
The Department of the Navy is closely monitoring updates to the evolving Coronavirus outbreak situation, and the latest DON ...
January-March 2020 Issue
The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer Aaron Weis has released the DON Information Superiority Vision which ...
January-March 2020 Issue
Department of Navy (DON) information technology (IT) resources greatly enhance our warfighting and business processing ...
January-March 2020 Issue
The Department of the Navy Information Technology Conference, West Coast 2020 schedule is now available. The conference will ...
January-March 2020 Issue
The Department of the Navy’s first Chief Data Officer, Thomas Sasala, was designated in his position in October 2019. He ...
January-March 2020 Issue
The DON’s first-ever, Chief Technology Officer, Jane Rathbun, is dual-hatted as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for ...
January-March 2020 Issue
Our day-to-day operations have fundamentally changed over the last several days, and most likely will continue to do so, ...
January-March 2020 Issue
It’s a pleasure to present the full DON CIO leadership team with Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer, Aaron ...
January-March 2020 Issue
QUANTICO, Virginia (NNS) -- The novel coronavirus pandemic presents an opportunity for malicious actors to conduct ...
January-March 2020 Issue
With the award of the Service Management, Integration and Transport (SMIT) contract, the Department of the Navy (DON) has ...
January-March 2020 Issue
The DON IT Conference, West Coast has been approved for March 2-3, 2020, at the San Diego Convention Center, and the DON IT ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
When the President signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act the evening of Dec. 20, he set several new space ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
MONTEREY, Calif. (NNS) -- Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) (CTI) 1st Class Joel Kelly is serving as the leading petty ...
Monday, December 16, 2019
Nautical, terrain and aeronautical charting is vital to the Defense Department mission. This job, along with collecting ...
Monday, December 16, 2019
GROTON, Conn. – – Information Systems Technician (Submarines) 1st Class Derrick Bassett, a native of Colorado Springs, ...
Monday, December 16, 2019
NEWPORT, R.I. (NNS) -- Saying the most important thing to do is just dive in, Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, director of the ...
Friday, December 13, 2019
Protecting the nation's warfighters and enabling them to win on the battlefield is the driving force behind the Defense ...
Thursday, December 12, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va.—The secret sauce of successful naval acquisitions requires a vital ingredient: partnerships, particularly ...
Thursday, December 12, 2019
New biometric research data — ranging from fingerprints to facial photographs and iris scans — is now available from the ...
Thursday, December 12, 2019
NSF-commissioned study by the independent JASON group calls foreign influence threat a complex issue that ‘can be addressed ...
Thursday, December 5, 2019
From GPS location services to communications, the United States' dependence on space capabilities is well documented, the ...
Thursday, December 5, 2019
The United States is heavily dependent on information technology, which is integral to critical networks and applications, ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) is designated as a federal cyber center and Department of Defense center ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) selected Peter C. Reddy as Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) ...
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Technology is disrupting the business environment and government, and it will soon disrupt U.S. Special Operations Command ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Keppel Wood was initially assigned to the National Security Agency as a Navy Cryptologist in 2005. Three years later, she ...
Thursday, November 7, 2019
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s present and future industry partners joined DISA for Forecast to Industry 2019 Nov. ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) released its Interim Report to Congress Nov. 4 and will ...
Friday, November 1, 2019
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) released Draft NIST ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Greetings friends, colleagues and mission partners! I am thankful for the opportunity to work with and for each of you, ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
"Since the day I arrived, my goal has been to ensure our warfighters have the tools they need to fight and win in the great ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
InfoDOMAIN, the official online magazine of Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR), the Naval Information Warfighting ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Defense Department officials announced the selection of Derek Tournear as the first permanent director of the Space ...
Monday, October 28, 2019
The Department of Defense has taken another step forward in the implementation of our Cloud Strategy with the award of an ...
Friday, October 25, 2019
The Department of Defense released the Military Intelligence Program (MIP) appropriated top line budget for FY 2019 Oct. 24. ...
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The commander of Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) sees the future of the Navy’s Information Warfare (IW) community, now 10 ...
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The DISA and JFHQ-DoDIN workforce and guests celebrated the Navy’s birthday during a cake-cutting ceremony hosted by DISA ...
Thursday, October 24, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) visited and ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
WASHINGTON (NNS) (NNS) -- Cybersecurity is an “all hands on deck” effort to ensure the nation’s networks and systems are ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
In December, the Defense Department will fully implement an adaptive acquisition framework designed to speed acquisition and ...
Monday, October 21, 2019
In recent years, malicious actors, cyber criminals and political trolls have inundated the internet with numerous routing ...
Thursday, October 17, 2019
The unconventional and insidious threat U.S. adversaries pose is in the "gray zone," the space between U.S. traditional ...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) -- Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett, director of the Navy Cyber Security Division, Office of the Chief of ...
Friday, October 11, 2019
In this video, Senior enlisted leader for U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, MGySgt Scott Stalker, asks ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Much of our focus for Cybersecurity Awareness Month is on how the Navy’s cybersecurity is threatened by nation states, ...
Friday, October 4, 2019
CRANE, Ind. –Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) recently received its first primary authority from ...
Friday, October 4, 2019
Internet-enabled crimes and cyber intrusions are becoming increasingly insidious and sophisticated. Preventing such crimes ...
Thursday, October 3, 2019
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division, Keyport is moving forward under new authority granted by Section 233 of ...
October-December 2019 Issue
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines collaboration as “to work jointly with others or together especially in an ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
WASHINGTON (NNS) (NNS) -- The cyber threat to the Navy is real, and the stakes are high.
“If you’re asking me if I think ...
October-December 2019 Issue
The deadline for nominations for the DON IM/IT Excellence Awards has been extended to Dec. 13, 2019. These awards recognize ...
October-December 2019 Issue
In recent years, high profile accounting and management scandals have given rise to legislative action to improve internal ...
October-December 2019 Issue
Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence and Space Systems (PEO C4I and Space ...
October-December 2019 Issue
It’s a pleasure to present the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer, Aaron Weis, with his introductory column in ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
It’s that time of year again, autumn may usher in thoughts of hot apple cider and hayrides, but Oct. 1 also signals the ...
October-December 2019 Issue
Much has been written about the Wild West of the internet of things, the network of physical objects—devices, vehicles, ...
October-December 2019 Issue
Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) completed an enterprise-wide cybersecurity health ‘scorecard’ during ...
October-December 2019 Issue
A dedicated, combined team of experts completed the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) cloud migration to a commercial ...
October-December 2019 Issue
An independent review of the Navy’s cybersecurity posture, completed in March 2019, was predictably harsh on our Navy’s ...
October-December 2019 Issue
With the United States and its adversaries returning to an era of Great Power Competition, in which new domains of cyber and ...
October-December 2019 Issue
The Department of the Navy is working to enable a more capable, knowledgeable cyber enlisted workforce with expertise in the ...
October-December 2019 Issue
Based on recommendations from the Secretary of the Navy Cybersecurity Readiness Review, and in full coordination with ...
October-December 2019 Issue
In light of ever-increasing cyber threats around the world, Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic is increasing ...
October-December 2019 Issue
Department of Navy (DON) cyber-sentries from across the major systems commands participated in a second Town Hall ...
October-December 2019 Issue
Suffolk, Va. (NNS) -- Cyber threats against federal agencies, across the Department of Defense (DoD), and the U.S. Navy are ...
October-December 2019 Issue
The U.S. Navy and our partners in industry work together to provide the capabilities we need to fight and win. Our Defense ...
October-December 2019 Issue
HACKtheMACHINE is a technology prize challenge where people from any lifestyle or occupation can help the Navy solve its ...
October-December 2019 Issue
The Navy-Marine Corps Spectrum Summit has been approved for Feb. 11-13, 2020, at the Admiral Kidd Catering & Conference ...
October-December 2019 Issue
It is my pleasure to greet you as the Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy for Information Management and ...
October-December 2019 Issue
The electromagnetic environment is as sensitive to pollution as any other environment, such as air or water. Depending on ...
October-December 2019 Issue
When we consider cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities, we often think of external actors. Indeed, external actors work ...
October-December 2019 Issue
After two years serving as your Secretary of the Navy, it is time to update the department’s vision and goals. We’ve ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released Draft Special Publication 800-207, Zero Trust Architecture, ...
Friday, September 20, 2019
The Department of the Navy computer/network incident instruction has been updated. The purpose of the instruction is to ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
FORT MEADE, Md. -- During the midterm elections last year, U.S. Cyber Command had three teams deployed forward in Europe ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Effective Oct. 1, 2019, the Navy’s Operations Security (OPSEC) support capability, known as the Naval OPSEC Support Team ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
As more and more Americans conduct the business of their lives and social connections, online, protecting privacy data ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
The Defense Information Systems Agency is hosting an industry opportunity Monday, Nov. 4, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern ...
Monday, September 9, 2019
An overhaul of the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, or JWICS, is underway to make it better able to serve ...
Friday, September 6, 2019
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and the National Insider Threat Task Force (NITTF) are today ...
Thursday, September 5, 2019
On Aug. 18, the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer released updated enterprise-wide DON policy and guidance ...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, stood up just last year, has plans to hire an ethicist to help guide the Defense ...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
The Department of Defense has partnered with interagency stakeholders, including the National Insider Threat Task Force, the ...
Thursday, August 29, 2019
September 1, 2019 marks the fifth anniversary of the Cyber branch, the U.S. Army's youngest career branch.
Army Cyber ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
The 2018 National Defense Strategy calls for the U.S. military to be “strategically predictable, but operationally ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
The Defense Department is reducing timelines and lowering costs to provide the best military capabilities, a senior DoD ...
Monday, August 19, 2019
The Defense Information Systems Agency issued a Provisional Authorization (PA) Aug. 15 enabling DOD mission partners and ...
Friday, August 16, 2019
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – Threats to Army weapon systems come in many forms. It’s Christine Miller’s job to identify those ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a ...
Monday, August 12, 2019
What can the Enterprise Cloud do?
• Addresses critical unmet needs for warfighters • Access to all classification levels ...
Thursday, August 8, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Vice Adm. Matthew Kohler, deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare (OPNAV N2N6) and ...
Friday, August 2, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Intelligence Specialist 1st Class Kalil Negronrodriguez, a 2012 Poinciana High School graduate, and a ...
Friday, August 2, 2019
NORFOLK, Va. - Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic (NCTAMS LANT) held a change of command ...
Thursday, August 1, 2019
NEWPORT, R.I. (NNS) -- When a cyberattack hits an American financial institution, or the energy grid of a major U.S. city, ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
The Department of the Navy's data security and integrity is paramount to the mission to deliver combat ready naval forces. ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Facebook, Inc. will pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty, and submit to new restrictions and a modified corporate ...
Thursday, July 18, 2019
The Federal CIO Council is excited to unveil the Federal Mobility Group (FMG), a federal Community of Practice that ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
SUFFOLK, Va. – Vice Adm. Brian B. Brown, commander, Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR), welcomed U.S. Naval Academy ...
Monday, July 8, 2019
SUFFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- Capt. Harold Cole relieved Capt. Julia Slattery as Commander, Task Force 1020/Commanding Officer, Navy ...
July-September 2019 Issue
WASHINGTON (NNS) (NNS) -- The Department of the Navy (DON) announces Aaron Weis as the department’s Chief Information ...
July-September 2019 Issue
The evolving needs of national defense and the ever-changing cyberspace environment requires developing and reinforcing ...
July-September 2019 Issue
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) established a new website in June ...
July-September 2019 Issue
The Department of Defense released its Digital Modernization Strategy on July 12, 2019. This strategy will guide the DoD ...
July-September 2019 Issue
The Deputy Chief of Operations for Information Warfare (OPNAV N2N6), Vice Adm. Matthew J. Kohler, issued NAVADMIN 210/19, ...
July-September 2019 Issue
Dr. Ray A. Letteer is the Deputy Branch Head, Compliance Branch, Cybersecurity Section of the Command, Control, ...
July-September 2019 Issue
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (NNS) -- In the Navy’s effort to harness innovation Mr. James Geurts, assistant secretary of the Navy for ...
July-September 2019 Issue
Editor’s Note: The analysis reflected in this commentary draws on work completed as a part of the Naval Postgraduate School ...
July-September 2019 Issue
The Risk Management Framework (RMF) is often thought of as “bad words” when it comes to accomplishing information technology ...
July-September 2019 Issue
The Department of the Navy (DON) has entered the era of the Next Generation Enterprise Network Re-compete (NGEN-R) family of ...
July-September 2019 Issue
-- Develop and maintain an engaged and capable workforce.
-- Deliver an enhanced and positive customer experience.
-- ...
Friday, June 28, 2019
Marines are not only found in the traditional domains of the air, land and sea, but are also engaged on the frontlines of ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
The National Institute of Standards and Technology announces the publication of NISTIR 8228, Considerations for Managing ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
In the Report to the President on Federal IT Modernization, released publicly in 2017 in accordance with Executive Order ...
Monday, June 24, 2019
The National Science Foundation joins other federal agency partners in announcing the release of the 2019 Update to the ...
Thursday, June 20, 2019
The National Institute of Standards and Technology seeks feedback for Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-171 Revision ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
The Defense Department needs a foundational way of computing as it moves forward in developing applications for the cloud, ...
Monday, June 17, 2019
ARLINGTON, Va. (NNS) – In an effort to seek prospective employees, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) ...
Thursday, June 13, 2019
The organizing committee of the Named Data Networking Community Meeting 2019 cordially invites you to participate in and ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a Draft Cybersecurity White Paper for public comment that ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
On May 20, 2019, Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly signed SECNAV Instruction 2400.1B, "Electromagnetic Spectrum ...
Thursday, June 6, 2019
FORT MEADE, Md., June 4, 2019 — The National Security Agency is urging Microsoft Windows administrators and users to ensure ...
Thursday, May 23, 2019
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) – Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson held an all-hands call for Navy ...
Thursday, May 23, 2019
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) migrated its Security Requirements Guides (SRGs) and Security Technology ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Are you looking for an internship opportunity to develop your skills, enhance your career potential, and make a global ...
Friday, May 17, 2019
Endpoint security subject matter experts from all Department of Defense agencies are invited to participate in an Automated ...
Friday, May 17, 2019
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) – Capt. Kris Kearton, director of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command's (FCC) Office of Compliance and ...
Friday, May 17, 2019
The Defense Information Systems Agency, working together with the Defense Media Activity, is supporting the worldwide ...
Thursday, May 16, 2019
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Department of Defense Chief Information Officer will host a virtual Global Town Hall Friday, May 17, ...
Thursday, May 16, 2019
The President issued an Executive Order declaring a national emergency to deal with the threat posed by the unrestricted ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
The Defense Information Systems Agency is prepared to provide warfighting capability to the military services, combatant ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
DISA’s Executive Deputy Director Tony Montemarano packed the house as the first speaker during the annual AFCEA TechNet ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
WASHINGTON -- As it embarks on its second year as a unified combatant command, U.S. Cyber Command is taking stock of its ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Virginia Beach hosted the Navy’s intelligence technician ...
Friday, May 10, 2019
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- As discussed in the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the United States is facing an increasingly complex ...
Friday, May 10, 2019
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. -- Refueling, rearming, resupplying, and repairing ships in ways that allow the fleet to sustain ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (NNS) – U.S. Fleet Cyber Command / U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) leaders participated in discussions ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – Two intelligence specialists from Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Virginia Beach were among ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) joined ten commands from across the Information Warfare (IW) Community to ...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. -- Throughout my 12 years serving as a Navy leader in the information technology (IT) field, I’ve watched ...
Monday, May 6, 2019
WASHINGTON -- Buying software is inherently different than buying hardware, but the DoD procurement system has not always ...
Thursday, May 2, 2019
The Sea-Air-Space Exposition (SAS) is an annual event hosted by the Navy League of the United States. SAS brings together ...
Thursday, May 2, 2019
The White House has released a new Executive Order on America’s Cybersecurity Workforce. The Executive Order will implement ...
Thursday, May 2, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A 2006 graduate of Nevada’s Fernley High School and Virginia Beach, Virginia native is stationed with ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (NNS) -- Eleven commands from across the Navy’s Information Warfare (IW) community will come together ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
The Department of Defense is seeking savings as the largest federal agency with an annual budget of more than $500 billion ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
One weapon in the Defense Information Systems Agency’s arsenal is a commercial off-the-shelf tool that maps and monitors the ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Electronic device manufacturers should find it less time-consuming to bring their products to both the U.S. and ...
Friday, April 26, 2019
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology announced 15 key findings from a final ...
Thursday, April 25, 2019
The office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) launched a new public website, ...
Thursday, April 25, 2019
WASHINGTON -- Adversaries shouldn’t already have read the manual on a new U.S. gun before the first soldier has had a chance ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
The Secretary of Defense Communications (SDC) organization provides dedicated communications support, decision support, and ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
In an effort to decrease authorized service interruptions (ASI) and increase customer awareness of system maintenance ...
Thursday, April 4, 2019
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center launched National Supply Chain Integrity Month with its federal ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Striking a balance between mobile device security and user needs is a persistent challenge for cybersecurity professionals, ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
The Portfolio Manager Supporting Establishment Systems Information Technology- Industry Stakeholder Outreach (PfM SES ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
NORFOLK, Va. -- Vice Adm. Brian B. Brown, commander, Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR), attended a ceremony marking the ...
April-June 2019 Issue
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is leading an effort aimed at consolidating the common use information ...
Monday, April 1, 2019
WASHINGTON -- The United States was the first — and still the only — nation to put a man on the moon. Nobody will forget ...
April-June 2019 Issue
The conference schedule is now available for the DON IT Conference, East Coast 2019. It has been approved for June 3-5, ...
Monday, April 1, 2019
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.—On a rather secluded and undeveloped piece of Southern California coastline lies a succession of ...
April-June 2019 Issue
Greetings!
In this issue we take a look at the Department of the Navy plans to overhaul its education strategy and ...
April-June 2019 Issue
Did you know that the Navy Commercial Cloud Enterprise (NCCS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) was awarded Sept. 26, 2018? ...
April-June 2019 Issue
In October 2018, Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer asked a group of subject matter experts to review the Department ...
April-June 2019 Issue
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWARSYSCOM) has changed its name to Naval Information Warfare ...
Friday, March 29, 2019
PENSACOLA, Fla. – Director for Information Warfare Integration, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for ...
Thursday, March 28, 2019
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) -- “If you make a mistake, it is better to acknowledge that one small mistake ...
Friday, March 22, 2019
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) – U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) announced the 2018 Civilians of the ...
Friday, March 22, 2019
Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Integer Factorization Cryptography
The National Institute of ...
Thursday, March 21, 2019
WASHINGTON -- If the gap is to be maintained between what the United States has in space technology and capability and what ...
Monday, March 18, 2019
In 2017 there were 829 data breaches in the U.S. affecting more than 2 billion individual records, according to the Privacy ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
The Department of Defense rolled out its FY 2020 budget proposal today. With the largest research and development request in ...
Thursday, March 7, 2019
In an effort to provide resilient information technology solutions, tech innovation and enterprise cloud services, the Air ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) establish a ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
FORT MEADE, Md., March 4, 2019 — We’re heading west, but instead of searching for gold, we’re sharing some cybersecurity ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Greetings!
I was reminded this month that it has been a year since I assumed command of DISA and the Joint Force ...
Monday, March 4, 2019
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department has proposed legislation that would create the U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of ...
Monday, March 4, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Information Systems Technician 1st Class Michaela Dycus, a native of Ft. Riley, Kansas, currently ...
Friday, March 1, 2019
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Twenty-seven students graduated from the Network Security Vulnerability Technician (NSVT) course offered ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
WASHINGTON -- Senior Defense Department officials testified on the department’s information technology, cybersecurity and ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
The National Institute for Standards and Technology announced the release of Special Publication (SP) 800-177 Rev. 1, ...
Monday, February 25, 2019
The Department of Defense announced Feb. 21 that it has awarded $10 million in funding to the Digital Manufacturing and ...
Thursday, February 21, 2019
The Defense Information Systems Agency began employing Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS) – regional suites of equipment ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
As many organizations explore options for cyber-secure multifactor access, the National Institute for Standards and ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Five years after the release of the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, organizations across all ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
The Defense Information Systems Agency granted a 12-month Department of Defense provisional authorization for PTC Cloud ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
The Defense Information Systems Agency hosted an Endpoint Security Summit at the agency’s Fort Meade headquarters Feb. 5-7, ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) joined 10 other Navy commands at the U.S. Navy ...
Thursday, February 7, 2019
SUFFOLK, Va. -- Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) announced the Sea, Shore and Reserve Senior Sailors of the Year (SOY) ...
Thursday, February 7, 2019
The U.S. Navy Information Warfare (IW) pavilion will be returning to WEST 2019 at the San Diego Convention Center from Feb. ...
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Award nominations deadline has now been extend to Feb. 15.
Awards will be presented in the following categories: ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
The field has narrowed in the race to protect sensitive electronic information from the threat of quantum computers, which ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) celebrated its 9th anniversary during a ceremony held at its ...
Thursday, January 24, 2019
WASHINGTON -- The latest iteration of the National Intelligence Strategy aims at encouraging innovation and sharing ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- Rear Adm. Jeff Scheidt, commander of Naval Information Warfighting Development Center (NIWDC), ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Department of the Navy Common Access Cards (CACs) must align with the Federal Personal Identity-Authentication (PIV-Auth) ...
Friday, January 18, 2019
Whether a bit of information is private, proprietary, or sensitive to national security, systems owners and users have ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
MONTEREY, Calif. (NNS) -- Eight bells welcomed Vice Adm. Timothy White, commander of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th ...
Monday, January 14, 2019
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) – U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) announced the 2018 Sea and Shore ...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) -- Navy Reserve leaders formally inaugurated a new Navy Cyber Warfare Development Group ...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) [announced Jan. 7 it] is disseminating videos, brochures, and ...
Friday, January 4, 2019
FORT GORDON, Ga. (NNS) – A Sailor assigned to Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC) Georgia was selected Dec. 7 as one ...
Friday, January 4, 2019
WASHINGTON -- Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan will use the National Defense Strategy as his blueprint moving ...
Thursday, January 3, 2019
LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) -- The Air Force and its mission partners successfully launched the first Global ...
January-March 2019 Issue
Congratulations to the 2019 DON Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) Excellence Award Winners! The DON ...
January-March 2019 Issue
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. -- For the last three years, engineers and project officers from Marine Corps Systems ...
January-March 2019 Issue
According to the Privacy Rights Clearing House, in 2017 there were 829 data breaches in the U.S. affecting over 2 billion ...
January-March 2019 Issue
We are very pleased to announce that CHIPS, the Department of the Navy’s IT magazine, received second place recognition in ...
January-March 2019 Issue
The Navy’s Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) is reaping the ...
January-March 2019 Issue
During the first weeks of his tenure as president of JPMorgan Chase Bank, Jamie Dimon was briefed on the company’s efforts ...
January-March 2019 Issue
The Department of Defense announced that U.S military forces are in the modern age of warfighting where the battlefield ...
January-March 2019 Issue
It was not your typical sunny San Diego weather during the Department of the Navy IT Conference, Feb. 13-15, but attendees ...
January-March 2019 Issue
Walk-in registration onsite at the West Coast DON IT Conference scheduled for Feb. 13-15 at the San Diego Convention Center ...
January-March 2019 Issue
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- The organization responsible for acquiring, deploying and sustaining the U.S. Navy’s afloat network ...
January-March 2019 Issue
SAN DIEGO (NNS) – Capt. Kris Kearton, Director of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command's Office of Compliance and Assessment, spoke ...
January-March 2019 Issue
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. -- The Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC) held an orientation week for its newest ...
January-March 2019 Issue
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- In early January, a consortium of operational and supporting commands officially approved and moved into ...
January-March 2019 Issue
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) -- The Navy’s community leader for Cryptology and Cyber Warfare released Feb. 8 a new vision ...
January-March 2019 Issue
The Safe Access File Exchange is back in service and can be used to securely transmit files containing personally ...
January-March 2019 Issue
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Letter from the Secretary of the Navy:
On October 12, 2018 I asked a group of subject matter experts to ...
January-March 2019 Issue
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA – Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic celebrated the opening of the Computer ...
January-March 2019 Issue
Pre-registration for the 2019 West Coast DON IT Conference is now closed. On-site registration will be available for three ...
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Today, NIST is publishing NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-37 Revision 2, Risk Management Framework for Information Systems ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
In recent years, numerous routing control plane anomalies such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), prefix hijacking, and route ...
Thursday, December 6, 2018
As the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) makes progress in its refueling complex overhaul (RCOH), ...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Greetings, friends and colleagues!
As the year draws to a close, I want to wish you all Happy Holidays! I am thankful for ...
Monday, December 3, 2018
WASHINGTON (NNS) – Rear Adm. Michael Brookes, deputy commander, U.S. 10th Fleet (C10F), participated in the senior service ...
Thursday, November 29, 2018
The DoD Chief Information Officer Annual Awards program recognizes individuals and teams within the DoD Information ...
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Advanced Technology International (ATI) of Summerville, in collaboration with Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), a part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
Monday, November 26, 2018
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A combined 44 intelligence and information professional officers graduated from the 20-week Naval ...
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 ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
The National Institute for Standards and Technology has issued Special Publication (SP) 800-57 which provides cryptographic ...
Monday, November 19, 2018
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas. — Inspections are an important part of keeping all Air Force operations running as ...
Monday, November 19, 2018
WASHINGTON -- With an increase in digital connectivity and a rapid development of technologies, such as advanced computing, ...
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, Deputy Defense ...
Thursday, November 15, 2018
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- The Navy’s Tactical Networks Program Office (PMW 160) developed an inventive contract with industry that ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) – Three Sailors assigned to U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) were ...
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 ...
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Industrial control systems (ICS) are used in many industries to monitor and control physical processes. As businesses ...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
San Diego (NNS) -- The Navy's Tactical Networks Program Office (PMW 160) hosted an Industry Day on Oct. 25 to improve ...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
DARPA has selected eight potential launch locations for the DARPA Launch Challenge, with options for both vertical and ...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
The National Insider Threat Task Force (NITTF), operating under the joint leadership of the Attorney General and the ...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
The Defense Information Systems Agency and industry met for a Forecast to Industry 2018 event Nov. 5 at the BWI Airport ...
Monday, November 5, 2018
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. — Today, the Cyber National Mission Force, a unit subordinate to U.S. Cyber Command, posted its ...
Monday, November 5, 2018
In his October message to the DoD team, Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan, at the close of Cybersecurity ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
The Commandant of the Marine Corps announced via MARADMIN Oct. 29 that he is seeking innovative ideas from Marines, Sailors, ...
Monday, October 29, 2018
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Virginia Beach hosted the inaugural Hampton Roads Area ...
Friday, October 26, 2018
In a non-descript brick building 30 miles north of Salt Lake City, a cadre of information technology and cybersecurity ...
Friday, October 26, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service today issued a request for information to ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Department of Defense announced today efforts to expand its successful Hack the Pentagon crowdsourced ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
The Department of Defense (DoD) Mobility Program continues to expand its unclassified service offerings into fiscal year ...
Monday, October 22, 2018
Is your desk connected?
You might think the question refers to a desk bolted to a wall or another desk. Soon that ...
Monday, October 22, 2018
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA – A woman is murdered in her home. Her husband is home at the time but says he didn’t do it. The ...
Friday, October 19, 2018
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- The Navy’s Tactical Networks Program Office (PMW 160) developed an inventive contract with industry that ...
Friday, October 19, 2018
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic hosted a change of command ceremony in Charleston, South Carolina, ...
Thursday, October 18, 2018
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (NNS) – Vice Adm. Timothy “T.J.” White, commander U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F), gave a ...
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Touted as a revolution that will eliminate many of the mundane tasks humans perform, the vast internet of things (IoT) ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) -- Eighteen intelligence specialists (IS) graduated from the 12-week Intelligence Specialist “A” ...
Monday, October 15, 2018
Due to increasing cyber threats around the world, U.S. Cyber Command officially became a unified combatant command in May. ...
Friday, October 5, 2018
It’s hard to imagine a day when concerns about cybersecurity aren’t a topic of discussion on American news channels. What ...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced the final public draft of Special Publication 800-37, Revision ...
October-December 2018 Issue
Some may remember the 1960’s Lost in Space television show. At least once an episode the robot would shout a warning to ...
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
PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- The Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) assumed training responsibilities in support of ...
October-December 2018 Issue
Editor's Note: In an effort to present a range of Department of the Navy officials' views regarding information technology, ...
October-December 2018 Issue
ARLINGTON, Va. - The Navy issued the Next Generation Enterprise Network Re-Compete (NGEN-R) Service Management, Integration ...
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 Patrick M. Shanahan, encouraged the department to ...
October-December 2018 Issue
The schedule and session descriptions for the 2019 West Coast DON IT Conference are available. The conference is scheduled ...
October-December 2018 Issue
The due date for DON Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) Excellence Awards nominations has been extended ...
October-December 2018 Issue
“…we’re in the cyber fight 24/7, 365 days a year, and our foes in that fight are sophisticated, and technologically ...
October-December 2018 Issue
Logistics experts at Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) are on ...
October-December 2018 Issue
As modern warfare expands into the cyber domain, the Navy faces enormous and mounting challenges. Foreign governments and ...
October-December 2018 Issue
Cybersecurity professionals are among the most sought-after workers in the United States – across government agencies, ...
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
Cybersecurity is an “all hands on deck” effort to ensure the nation’s networks and systems are protected against those who ...
October-December 2018 Issue
Defense Secretary James Mattis writes in a preamble to the Provide for the Common Defense report that: “The Bipartisan ...
October-December 2018 Issue
The Honorable Thomas B. Modly was sworn in as the 33rd Under Secretary of the Navy Dec. 4, 2017.
Mr. Modly graduated ...
October-December 2018 Issue
On Oct. 5, 2018, Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly signed SECNAV Instruction 2400.3, “Electromagnetic Battle ...
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
The Navy Approach to Insider Threat
Since the days of the Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden massive leaks of national ...
October-December 2018 Issue
After six years of leading the Department of the Navy’s efforts to close data centers and consolidate business-related ...
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 ready," ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Naval Information Forces Command Commander, Vice Adm. Brian Brown, paid a visit to Naval Information Warfare Training Group ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Army Cyber is racing the clock literally every day to stay ahead of adversaries in cyberspace The first shots of the next ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
The internet of things is an ever evolving and expanding network of diverse technologies that interact with each other and ...
Monday, September 24, 2018
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s cloud portfolio includes infrastructure, compute, storage and security services. ...
Monday, September 24, 2018
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFNS) -- Dr. Will Roper, the Air Force's senior civilian acquisition leader, redesignated ...
Monday, September 24, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The first new National Cyber Strategy in 15 years is built on four pillars: protecting the American people, ...
Friday, September 21, 2018
Hardware/server virtualization is a fundamental component in the infrastructure of data centers used for cloud computing ...
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
"The United States is committed to open and reliable access to information, which is vital to U.S. prosperity and ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) (NNS) -- Senior Navy information warfare community leaders from across the world came ...
Monday, September 17, 2018
Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan, in his August Message to the DoD Team, discussed the implementation of the ...
Friday, September 14, 2018
WASHINGTON -- While the 2018 National Defense Strategy directs reform as one of its key efforts, the Defense Department is ...
Thursday, September 13, 2018
San Diego (NNS) -- Representatives from the U.S. Navy’s Tactical Networks Program Office (PMW 160) visited USS Porter (DDG ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s annual no-cost event offers DISA’s industry partners with in-depth information ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
An effective IT asset management (ITAM) solution can harness physical and virtual assets and provide an organization’s ...
Monday, September 10, 2018
Hello, friends and colleagues!
The Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act was signed by the President on ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Navigating the Defense Information Systems Agency’s labyrinth of products and services can be like finding the proverbial ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Innovative technologies such as the “internet of things” (IoT) and artificial intelligence enhance convenience, efficiency ...
Monday, August 27, 2018
Cloud services can provide organizations the opportunity to increase their flexibility, availability, resiliency, and ...
Thursday, August 23, 2018
The Defense Information Systems Agency now offers an Apple device enrollment program as an option available to all mission ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Today, the speedy delivery of electronic documents, messages, and other data is relied on for personal, commercial and ...
Monday, August 13, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The proposal to form the U.S. Space Force is rooted in protecting America’s advantages in space and in ...
Thursday, August 9, 2018
FORT GORDON, Ga - Four electronics technician students and one instructor graduated from the joint Army and Navy Satellite ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
WEST BETHESDA, Md. (NNS) -- The Naval Research and Development Establishment (NR&DE) held a Collaboration Forum July 31 to ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department will provide all support necessary to the Department of Homeland Security and law ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
SUFFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) hosted U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen for a third and final ...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Modernization efforts for the Army network are moving forward with plans to get after cloud-based ...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Air Force Col. Bradley Barnhart, a native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, brings more than 25 years of cyber and information ...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
WASHINGTON -- Deployed service members are going to have to ditch their “geolocation devices” in response to a new memo from ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
FORT GORDON, Ga. – Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael Lester transferred responsibility as the officer in charge of the Center ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) -- As Navy leaders envision the future of the fleet, cyberspace is top of mind.
It spans ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Virginia Beach offered and completed its Advance Signals ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Intelligence Specialist (IS) 1st Class Anthony Bond, a native of Waynesboro, Mississippi, currently ...
Monday, July 30, 2018
SIGONELLA, Sicily (NNS) Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) Force Master Chief (FORCM) David B. Carter visited Sailors at ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
The Requirements and Analysis Office (RAO) reviews and defines requirements and provides recommendations for implementing ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
GROTON, Conn. (NNS) -- Eleven information systems technicians (submarines) (ITS) graduated from the 16-week System ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
SAN DIEGO – The Center for Information Warfare Training’s (CIWT) Commanding Officer Capt. Nick Andrews visited the ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Big data analytics—the process of examining massive data sets containing a variety of data types to uncover hidden patterns, ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
How many apps do you use? A few, 10, 25… more? Mobile applications have become such an engrained part of daily life, from ...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides cryptographic key management guidance for defining and ...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (DASN (RDT&E)), in collaboration with ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
This year’s International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART) symposium will examine propagation challenges for ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD) and the ...
Friday, July 13, 2018
MONTEREY, Calif. (NNS) -- The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has just stood up a new interdisciplinary working group to ...
Friday, July 13, 2018
A combined Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic and Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) integrated product ...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Defense Department’s information technology efforts are focused on maintaining the warfighters’ edge ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Several classes of fifth graders at Running Brook Elementary School spent a recent Friday afternoon deciphering secret ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Capt. Bryan E. Braswell relieved Capt. Herman L. Archibald, as commander, Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master ...
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.
Unfortunately for those on the front line, the ...
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 9, 2018
FORT GORDON, Ga. (NNS) – Two Sailors assigned to Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC) Georgia, Darrick Sanders Sr. and ...
Monday, July 2, 2018
SAN DIEGO (June 24, 2018) — A group of information warfare (IW) Sailors from a Northern California Navy Reserve unit ...
Monday, July 2, 2018
Vice Adm. Jan E. Tighe, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare/Director of Naval Intelligence was relieved ...
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
When U.S. Navy warships prepare for deployment, Sailors work long hours testing radars and weapons systems; engineering, ...
July-September 2018 Issue
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) -- Fifty-eight new information warfare community (IWC) officers graduated from the 3-week ...
July-September 2018 Issue
Electromagnetic spectrum is a finite resource made even scarcer by the properties by which technology or systems depend on ...
July-September 2018 Issue
One of the key strategies of the President’s Management Agenda is to Modernize IT to Improve Productivity and Security. A ...
July-September 2018 Issue
As Navy leaders envision the future of the fleet, cyberspace is top of mind. It spans almost every aspect of Navy ...
Thursday, June 28, 2018
HONOLULU (NNS) – Capt. Madelene Means relieved Capt. Todd Gagnon as commanding officer of Navy Information Operations ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The adage “forewarned is forearmed” has entered the digital era at the Defense Intelligence Agency, as ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
The Defense Intelligence Agency 2018 Department of Defense Intelligence Information System Worldwide Conference is now open ...
Friday, June 22, 2018
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently welcomed its newest inductee into the university’s prestigious Hall of ...
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Greetings!
Last month DISA hosted the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Defensive Cyber Operations ...
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 20, 2018
SUFFOLK, Va. (June 15, 2018) Vice Adm. Brian B. Brown relieved Vice Adm. Matthew J. Kohler as commander of Naval Information ...
Friday, June 15, 2018
The Defense Information Systems Agency announced today that it awarded its $7.5 billion Systems Engineering, Technology, and ...
Friday, June 15, 2018
NEWPORT, R.I. — At his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Armed Service Committee on July 11, 2017, the Honorable ...
Thursday, June 14, 2018
The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) within nonfederal systems and organizations is vitally important ...
Monday, June 11, 2018
FORT MEADE, Md. -- Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt. Scott H. Stalker is a trailblazer as the senior enlisted leader of U.S. ...
Monday, June 4, 2018
WASHINGTON -- SeaPort Next Generation (SeaPort-NxG) is now accepting vendor proposals, the U.S. Navy announced via Federal ...
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
DISA’s Endpoint Security Program engaged industry and Department of Defense partners to discuss user needs and new endpoint ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
U.S. Africa Command’s telecommunications requirements were the subject of discussion at the inaugural Africa ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
An abundance of data and expansion into the cloud and mobile environments present unique challenges for defensive cyber ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. — All 133 of U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber Mission Force teams achieved Full Operational Capability ...
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 ...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
The terms Cyber Security, Cyber Space, and Cyber Domain are prevalent in all major news outlets and within the conference ...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
As more and more Americans become increasingly alarmed at the ways companies, digital devices and social media sites ...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Rear Adm. Christian Becker, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) commander, participated in a cybersecurity ...
Monday, May 7, 2018
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Cyber Command became the nation’s 10th unified combatant command [May 4] and Army Gen. Paul M. Nakasone ...
Monday, May 7, 2018
NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) –Lt. Daniel Balance, Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command (NCDOC) N3 mission capabilities manager, ...
Friday, May 4, 2018
WASHINGTON -- In response to the changing face of warfare, U.S. Cyber Command will be elevated tomorrow to a combatant ...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Hello, and happy spring!
The past few months have been a whirlwind, but I wouldn’t trade it. It has been a pleasure to ...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
NORFOLK, Va. -- It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention ...
“Consolidating to the Navy Enterprise ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department is already looking at ways to make its agencies more productive and efficient, the ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department’s information technology move to the cloud will rapidly deliver advantages to the ...
Friday, April 20, 2018
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department must embrace a more agile approach to technology development to keep pace with rapidly ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
It has been a great honor to serve as the Acting Department of Navy Chief Information Officer for the past eight months. ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (USD(A&S)) Ellen Lord announced the appointment of Jeff Boleng as ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
SAS 2018, held April 9-11 at the Gaylord National Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, brought together the ...
Monday, April 16, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is releasing a draft revision of Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 2, ...
Friday, April 13, 2018
A virtualized server platform—like a physical server platform—must be protected against attacks from hackers who might want ...
Thursday, April 12, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing a publication that it said will help organizations to ...
Thursday, April 12, 2018
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2018 — As threats in cyberspace constantly evolve, the United States is facing adversaries that are ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Authorizing Official granted a 12-month Department of Defense (DoD) ...
Friday, April 6, 2018
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- This year's U.S. Navy Information Warfare (IW) pavilion at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space (SAS) ...
Friday, April 6, 2018
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Incoming Sea Warrior Program (PMW 240, PEO EIS) Program Manager Claire Evans relieved Acting Program ...
Friday, April 6, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is releasing Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8011 Volume 3, ...
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
NORFOLK, Va. – Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett, Navy Cyber Security Division Director, and senior leaders from the Office of the ...
April-June 2018 Issue
PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- Leaders from major information warfare (IW) commands visited the Center for Information Warfare ...
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
By some accounts, Russian meddling in the US election system may have originated from the depths of a hot dog cart. It’s a ...
April-June 2018 Issue
The DoD ESI program, primarily staffed by Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Pacific, was featured as an IT ...
April-June 2018 Issue
Since 1979, in one form or another, the Joint Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I), Cyber ...
April-June 2018 Issue
On May 31, 2018, DON OCIO released a new memo, "Approvals and Waivers for Obligation of Funds for Data Servers and Data ...
April-June 2018 Issue
Two of the most intriguing scientific fields of the 20th century have come together to revolutionize the 21st signifying the ...
April-June 2018 Issue
We read about high profile phishing attacks and warnings nearly every day in the news. So you would think that such ...
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, ...
Thursday, March 15, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va., March 14, 2018 — The Defense Department is seeking an enterprisewide cloud infrastructure to ensure ...
Thursday, March 15, 2018
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2018 — The military service chiefs of cybersecurity see an upward trend in the capacity, capabilities, ...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
WASHINGTON (NNS) – Vice Adm. Mike Gilday, commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F), provided testimony ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic announced the grand opening of its new Network Integration and ...
Monday, March 5, 2018
SUFFOLK, Va. (Mar. 2, 2018) NNS — Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson and Master Chief Petty Officer of the ...
Friday, March 2, 2018
WASHINGTON, March 1, 2018 — The Defense Department will host an industry day for the ongoing cloud acquisition effort, March ...
Thursday, March 1, 2018
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) – U.S. Fleet Cyber Command / U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) recently announced Mr. William ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2018 — Although competitors such as China and Russia remain the greatest threat to U.S. security, rogue ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Data science, data analytics and Navy Digital Twin (NDT) were the topics for the National Engineers Week event Feb. 21 at ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) – Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) Force Master Chief (FORCM) David B. Carter visited ...
Friday, February 16, 2018
The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a suite of specifications that standardize the format and nomenclature by ...
Thursday, February 15, 2018
The Department of Defense Cloud Executive Steering Group (CESG) will hold an Industry Day for the Joint Enterprise Defense ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
The Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ Association (FISSEA) is hosting a forum for exchanging information about ...
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Industry and small business personnel had the opportunity to meet with program managers (PMs) or their designated ...
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Defense Information Systems Agency Risk Management Executive Roger Greenwell highlighted two areas DISA is looking for small ...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
The Copernicus Awards and the conference are both co-sponsored by Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association ...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
SAN DIEGO (NNS) – Sailors from U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. Tenth Fleet (FCC/C10F) participated in WEST 2018, the premier ...
Monday, February 5, 2018
The NIST 8112 Internal Report contains a metadata schema for attributes that may be asserted about an individual during an ...
Friday, February 2, 2018
Navy Vice Adm. Nancy A. Norton assumed command of the Joint Force Headquarters – Department of Defense Information Network ...
Thursday, February 1, 2018
FORT MEADE, Md., Jan. 31, 2018 — The U.S. Cyber Command component responsible for securing, operating and defending the ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
The DON IT Conference, West Coast 2018 is scheduled to begin next week. Please review important conference details ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Defense Department officials are studying security issues raised by physical conditioning trackers that also can be used to ...
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 Special Publication (SP) 800-125A, Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment on Servers. A ...
Monday, January 29, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a white paper that summarizes automatic methods to prevent code ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
SUFFOLK, Va. (NNS) – Vice Adm. Mike Gilday, commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F), visited with ...
Friday, January 12, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 11, 2018 — The vast, global networks of the Defense Department are under constant attack, with the ...
Thursday, January 11, 2018
The proliferation of network-connected systems that are becoming embedded seemingly everywhere — from industrial control ...
Monday, January 8, 2018
The National Institute for Standards and Technology will host the Second Workshop on Enhancing Resilience of the Internet ...
Thursday, January 4, 2018
As part of its ongoing cybersecurity efforts, the National Institute for Standards and Technology issued the first update to ...
January-March 2018 Issue
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) -- Leaders of the Navy's cyber warfare community met for a three day conference at Fort ...
January-March 2018 Issue
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Acting Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer Dr. Kelly E. Fletcher has announced the ...
January-March 2018 Issue
Final preparations have been made for the DON IT Conference, April 23-25, 2018, at the Hilton Norfolk the Main in Norfolk, ...
January-March 2018 Issue
The DON IT Conference, East Coast 2018 schedule has been updated. The conference will be held April 23-25, 2018, at the ...
January-March 2018 Issue
I want to share with you this year’s outstanding DON IT Conference program and congratulate the winners of the DON ...
January-March 2018 Issue
The Commandant of the Marine Corps issued approval of the Marine Corps 1700 Cyberspace OccFld and associated Primary ...
January-March 2018 Issue
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. -- Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Business Systems Center (BSC) subject-matter experts and ...
January-March 2018 Issue
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (NNS) – Navy Cyber Warfare Engineers from the Navy Cyber Warfare Development Group (NCWDG) participated ...
January-March 2018 Issue
Rear Admiral Danelle Barrett is the Navy Cyber Security Division Director, on the staff of the Deputy Chief of Naval ...
January-March 2018 Issue
Registration is now open for the DON IT Conference, Data and Analytics Consortium, and Navy-Marine Corps Spectrum Summit, ...
January-March 2018 Issue
Registration is now open for the DON IT Conference, East Coast 2018, scheduled for April 23-25, 2018, at the Hilton Norfolk ...
January-March 2018 Issue
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- James Geurts, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition (ASN (RD&A)), ...
January-March 2018 Issue
Introduction
The frequency spectrum is of vital importance to the military; many warfighting systems including radars, ...
January-March 2018 Issue
The Navy established the Digital Warfare Office in December 2016 to lead efforts to better utilize the vast amounts of data ...
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT&L)) Ellen Lord today announced the appointment ...
Friday, December 15, 2017
PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- Five Sailors from the Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) domain were among those ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced their intent to enter into a Memorandum ...
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 ...
Monday, December 4, 2017
Season’s greetings!
Thank you for the feedback provided on my first edition of “The Drumbeat.” I’m glad you found value in ...
Monday, December 4, 2017
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. Tenth Fleet now has a voice on Twitter: https://twitter.com/USFLEETCYBERCOM, the command ...
Friday, December 1, 2017
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2017 — More than 20 Defense Department chief information officer individuals and teams were honored ...
Friday, December 1, 2017
Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis announced Nov. 30 that the president nominated Navy Rear Adm. Nancy A. Norton for ...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Rear Adm. Christian 'Boris' Becker, commander, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), served as the guest speaker ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
The Defense Information Systems Agency conducted its annual Forecast to Industry event Nov. 6 at the Ronald Reagan Building ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Following a Department of Defense directive, the Air Force is transitioning to a Microsoft Windows 10 secure host baseline. ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (NNS) -- Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare (IW) and Director of Naval ...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Media outlets are reporting that a ransomware attack, known as Bad Rabbit, initially spread through high profile ...
Thursday, November 2, 2017
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (NNS) -- U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. Tenth Fleet announced today that all of the Navy’s Cyber ...
Thursday, November 2, 2017
DAHLGREN, Va. – New electromagnetic maneuver warfare (EMW) capabilities are emerging from laboratories to make a vital ...
Thursday, November 2, 2017
In May of 2017, the Navy Reserve IP Officer community met for its annual leadership symposium at SPAWAR Systems Center ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
To set the direction for the discussion of "Cyber Attacks are Borderless," at the 2017 Association of the US Army Annual ...
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. ...
Monday, October 30, 2017
PORTLAND, Ore. – In participation with Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Automated Data Processing (ADP) division aboard ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
WASHINGTON - October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about the importance ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
One of the most significant challenges that USCYBERCOM faces is how execute operations to defend the Department of Defense ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) executive director, Pat Sullivan, participated in a cyber infrastructure ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
SUFFOLK, Va. – The commanding officer of Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command (NCDOC), Capt. Julia L. Slattery, kicked off ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
The 2017 DISA Forecast to Industry will be held Monday, Nov. 6, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) at the Ronald ...
Friday, October 6, 2017
FORT GORDON, Ga. (NNS) – Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Steven S. Giordano and his wife, Elka Giordano, Navy ...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
WASHINGTON -- As the Army introduces concepts such as the multi-domain battle (MDB) into joint operations, it also examines ...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Electronic messages traveling across the internet are under constant threat from data thieves, but new security standards ...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Navy Rear Adm. Nancy A. Norton, vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, served as the keynote speaker at ...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Cybersecurity is a 24/7, all-year-long effort that is everyone's responsibility. Whether at home, in the office, in the ...
October-December 2017 Issue
According to SECNAV Instruction 5510.37 dated 8 August 2013, an Insider Threat is "a person with authorized access who uses ...
October-December 2017 Issue
The Department of Defense is transitioning from the legacy Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation ...
October-December 2017 Issue
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- The Navy’s information professional (IP) community leader visited Information Warfare Training ...
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
The DON IT Conference has been approved for Feb. 6-8, 2018, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Ca. No ...
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
In 2014, there were 317 million new malware variants; in 2015, a 36 percent increase was encountered, resulting in 431 ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8192 documents the proceedings of a NIST workshop held July 11-12, 2017: "Enhancing Resilience ...
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 Rear Adm. Nancy Norton joined the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) as the vice director Aug. 11.
She ...
Friday, August 25, 2017
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. - Acquisition personnel here are setting up a system to monitor the health of the network ...
Thursday, August 24, 2017
U.S. European Command’s computer network security was greatly improved by one Sailor’s innovative idea. Cmdr. Audrey G. ...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
SUFFOLK, Va. – Capt. Adam Lyons relieved Capt. William E. Chase III as Commander, Task Force 1010 (CTF1010) and Commanding ...
Monday, August 14, 2017
The Joint Service Provider (JSP), an organization established in 2015 to consolidate information technology (IT) services ...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Sometimes a light touch is best: When you're telling a joke or hammering a tiny finishing nail into a wall, a gentle ...
Friday, August 4, 2017
SUFFOLK, Va. – Capt. Julia L. Slattery relieved Capt. Sean R. Heritage as Commander, Task Force 1020/Commanding Officer, ...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
The National Institute of Standards and Technology requests public comments on the release of Draft Special Publication ...
Friday, July 14, 2017
New National Institute of Standards and Technology guidance will help organizations perform a step-by-step analysis to ...
July-September 2017 Issue
There is no question that seapower is a central element of our nation’s physical security and economic well-being. The ...
July-September 2017 Issue
Arlington, Va. - The Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) and the Naval Enterprise Networks ...
July-September 2017 Issue
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Throughout National Cybersecurity Awareness Month this October, and in subsequent articles, the Office ...
Monday, May 15, 2017
Make the most out of your conference experience with this helpful information.
Conference sessions run from 8:30 am, ...
Thursday, April 6, 2017
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (NNS) -- Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard cyber and information warfare command leaders discussed the ...
April-June 2017 Issue
Where do Department of the Navy Information Management and Information Technology professionals learn about the DON’s latest ...
Friday, March 31, 2017
Rear Adm. Christian "Boris" Becker relieved Rear Adm. David Lewis as commander, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command ...
Thursday, March 30, 2017
This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to:
- Share and learn about Cybersecurity Framework users’ ...
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