The Government Accountability Office has called on the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that its methods to identify, classify and code cybersecurity job vacancies and responsibilities are complete and timely. GAO
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has proposed to combine two State Department offices to create a new bureau that will work to develop and coordinate strategic measures to address cybersecurity and digital economic
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The General Services Administration has introduced a proposed rule that would direct civilian contractors to comply with a National Institute of Standards and Technology framework that aims to protect controlled unclassified information
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Brig. Gen. Jennifer Buckner, formerly deputy commander of Joint Task Force-ARES under the U.S. Cyber Command, has been assigned to serve as director of cyber within the U.S. Army‘s G-3/5/7 office in Washington, D.C.
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A U.S. Cyber Command component has reached full operational capability status after three years of establishing capacity and capability to operate, defend and secure the Department of Defense Information Network. The Joint Force Headquarters DoDIN oversees the security
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The U.S. Coast Guard is considering a migration to the joint electronic health records system of the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Rear Adm. Michael
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The U.S. Army faces up to an eight-month delay on its fielding of active protection systems designed to defend fighting vehicles from potential missile threats, Defense News reported Monday. The service branch
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The Defense Department has launched a review of potential security risks associated with a physical conditioning tracker system that military personnel use, DoD News reported Monday. The study comes after DoD learned that some wearable
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a superconducting switch to support the development of “neuromorphic” computers that would operate like a human brain. NIST said Friday the switch, called a synapse,
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The Defense Department‘s Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation has evaluated the performance of a directional infrared countermeasures technology installed on U.S. Army helicopters, The Drive reported Thursday. DOT&E found
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