By Lauren C. Williams
Oct 29, 2020
While the Defense Department plans to beef up its primary telework platform, the Commercial Virtual Remote (CVR) environment, by next summer, it is also working on a more secure version, according to John Sherman, DOD s principal deputy CIO.
The Defense Department rolled out CVR earlier this year to accommodate teleworking in response to the pandemic. So far, over a million users are using it for telework, collaboration, calls and video conferences, but a permanent version of the Office 365-based capability is required to support higher-sensitivity, controlled unclassified information and mission critical information, Sherman said Oct. 28 during C4ISRNET s CyberCon event.
Why Nashville Bomb Investigators Feared Copycat Attacks by 5G Conspiracists
On 12/27/20 at 7:29 PM EST
In this handout image provided by the Metro Nashville Police Department, a screengrab of surveillance footage shows the recreational vehicle suspected of being used in the Christmas day bombing on December 25, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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The theory that fears of 5G technology might have been behind the Nashville bombing on Christmas Day prompted federal, state and local law enforcement officials to focus on the possibility of additional or copycat threats to U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, according to restricted government threat warnings exclusively obtained by Newsweek.
Experts Increasingly View SolarWinds Breach as Attack on US, Opening Way for Retaliation
On 12/18/20 at 7:44 PM EST
The unprecedented hack that appears to have first hit software company SolarWinds before spreading to some of the highest levels of the U.S. government is testing the definition of what constitutes cyber espionage and what the Pentagon defines as an actual attack on the nation.
If it is determined to be an attack, experts warn it would open the way for retaliation, including in the physical realm. But defining exactly what constitutes an attack in cyberspace, even in the 21st century, remains a murky issue.
Court ruling caps stellar 2020 of contract wins for Leidos
The fight for the $7.7 billion Navy NGEN network services contract appears to have ended Thursday with Leidos as the winner, which means the company can look back on a remarkable year for itself on the business development front.
NGEN, which provides the IT backbone for the Navy and Marine Corps, had been held by Perspecta since 2000 when it was first won by EDS Corp., a legacy company of Perspecta’s.
NGEN is Leidos’ biggest win of the year but isn t the only major contract award. The company has captured seven contracts in the last 12 months with values ranging from just shy of $1 billion to NGEN’s $7.7 billion.
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