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Risks Grow As Countries Share Electricity Across Borders
The world needs the efficiency of shared energy grids, so it also needs a way to prevent them from being used for coercion.
Defense Systems
DOD tries to take control of the JEDI 'narrative'
The Defense Department's CIO shop is trying to control the narrative on the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure procurement, a massive cloud computing acquisition that has generated intense scrutiny because of its size, scope and a hard fought lawsuit from one of the companies eliminated from the bidding.
Defense Systems
Is it worth comparing the DOD and ODNI cloud plans?
The intelligence community's top IT official said that DOD is "where we were five years ago" when the CIA opted to pursue a single vendor, single cloud solution.
Defense Systems
Marines plan to hit key JRSS milestone by year's end
The Marines Corps expects to complete the first implementation of the Joint Regional Security Stacks in Quantico, Va. by the end of 2019.
Defense Systems
The JEDI saga continues with new Oracle protest
Now that it's officially out of the running for the Pentagon's $10 billion warfighter cloud award, Oracle has updated its ongoing lawsuit against the procurement and its requirements.
Defense Systems
DISA works to make JRSS faster, more reliable
After a scathing internal evaluation, the Defense Information Systems Agency said it is working to resolve latency and reliability issues in the Joint Regional Security Stacks program.
Defense Systems
IBM amends its JEDI protest
The move came days after the Government Accountability Office dismissed a similar protest from Oracle against the Pentagon's $10 billion, 10-year cloud buy.
Defense Systems
Business ops plan stresses Navy's modernization focus
The Navy released its business operations plan for agility and accountability, highlighting cloud and network modernization.
Defense Systems
Meet the Marines' new CIO
Brig. Gen. Lorna Mahlock talks about how the service is looking to gain technical advantage.
Defense Systems
Who's minding the store on DOD-VA health systems collaboration?
As the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs work in parallel to implement the Cerner health record systems, Congress is worried about a single point of accountability.
Defense Systems
DOD rolls out revised JEDI solicitation
The Defense Department submitted several changed documents to its mega cloud program proposal, including changes to requirements in security, points of presence, pricing and small business information.
Defense Systems
Army hits speed bumps in JRSS migration
Latency and other performance quality issues with applications in the joint regional security stacks have caused DISA and the Army to rework the migration timeline.
Defense Systems
Coast Guard takes steps toward JRSS
The Coast Guard has recently embarked on DOD-wide initiative to increase security by 2019.
Defense Systems
Why firewalls don’t cut it when protecting critical infrastructure
SCADA enablers and unidirectional gateways offer a predictive advantage against targeted persistent attacks, Waterfall Security’s Andrew Ginter says.
Defense Systems
AFRL project powers up on base's trash
The waste-to-energy demonstration is turning up to 10 tons of trash a day into 300 megawatts of electric power.
Defense Systems
White House promotes whole-of-nation cyber deterrence strategy
In a much anticipated release, the White House finally provided congressional committees with its plan for protecting IT systems and infrastructure.
Defense Systems
DARPA looks to help utility companies survive power grid cyberattacks
The Pentagon's research arm wants to not only detect cyber threats against the power grid before they occur, but be able to restore power within days as opposed to weeks.
Defense Systems
17 companies win spots on $5.8B NetCents 2 contract
The vendors will compete for work in support of network operations and infrastructure for the Air Force and other military services.
Defense Systems
Ferrell takes the reins as Army CIO
Former commander of CECOM takes over C4 strategy and LandWarNet 2020 initiative.
Defense Systems
Russian Proton rocket delivers military satellite
Proton-M rocket carries Raduga-1M communications satellite to geostationary orbit.
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