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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.