John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, has issued a memorandum directing DOD component agencies to assess their compliance with several measures for handling
MoreMicrosoft has developed a new cloud service to protect agencies’ data that is classified as “top secret.” The company will continue to work with the US Government on accreditation for Azure Government
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Ellen McCarthy, assistant secretary for the State Department’s bureau of intelligence and research and a former Wash100 Award, said the bureau has adopted publicly available, open-source data to serve as the foundation for
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Mark Munsell, chief technology officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, told FCW in an interview published Tuesday NGA is looking to commercial businesses as it works to declassify images to collect data
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The Defense Department has sent a letter to Congress to explain its decision to pursue a single-award contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement program instead of a multiple-award contract,
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A redacted version of an August 2016 report by the Defense Departmentâs inspector general says the National Security Agency failed to develop a detailed plan for the implementation of its âsecure-the-net initiativesâ
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The Defense Department has started to gather public input on a proposed common information system designed to identify, request and record actions related to personnel security. DoD said in a June 15 notice on
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Rob Vietmeyer, an official at the Defense Departmentâs CIO office, has said DoD plans to tap commercial cloud service providers to store and manage classified data that fall under impact level 6 category,
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The Defense Department has introduced a new measure that seeks to guide military contractors on when and how to report incidents of data breaches and other network attacks to the agency, Nextgov reported
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