By Defense Systems Staff
Jan 20, 2021
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants a geolocation dataset of U.S. businesses operating in sectors considered essential to U.S. homeland security.
According to a Jan. 7 request for information, NGA said it’s looking for sources of commercial geospatial databases that could be integrated into the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) to inform senior leaders protecting the nation’s infrastructure. The data would support “operational, situational and strategic awareness” and facilitate crisis response, preparedness planning and infrastructure protection, the statement of work said.
The requested dataset would contain registered business records of companies operating in 17 sectors across all 50 states, territories and commonwealths. The data, NGA said, “shall provide accurate locational data, and proper categorization of feature types in order to correctly identify, aid, and expedite response/recovery effo
By Justin Katz
Jan 13, 2021
A top counterintelligence official today said the number of federal agencies affected by the SolarWinds Orion breach will likely grow higher than an initial estimate announced by a White House task force last week.
The White House task force organizing the response to the attack said last week that fewer than 10 federal agencies were affected.
William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said today during a Washington Post event both the number of known public and private sector organizations affected by the SolarWinds hack will likely rise as investigators continue to manage the fallout.
The Pentagon eliminated a class deviation that implemented the president s executive order purging diversity training across federal grants and contracts.
By Lauren C. Williams
Jan 13, 2021
The Defense Information Systems Agency will be absorbing the Defense Department’s Cloud Computing Program Office (CCPO) by the end of January, the agency s director said.
DISA will become “the implementation arm for the DOD CIO’s cloud strategy,” said Vice Adm. Nancy Norton, DISA director and commander of the Joint Force Headquarters Department of Defense Information Network. Whether that s a general-purpose cloud or a fit-for-purpose cloud, all of those offerings are available through DISA, Norton said during a virtual keynote presentation with AFCEA NOVA on Jan. 7.
Control of the CCPO, which is responsible for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program and other cloud efforts, has been under split with DISA having administrative control and the DOD CIO having operational control.
Jan 13, 2021
Chief data officers (CDOs) in the Defense Department are opening up their data to take advantage of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools that help surface insights and improve decision-making. Some of the legacy concepts around this is my data just naturally change when we start using data to drive some of our senior leader-most decision-making forums, DOD CDO David Spirk said. I think at the department level, we re blasting through some of those legacy cultural tendencies.
Speaking at the ThoughtSpot Beyond 2020 Digital conference in December, Spirk said DOD’s growing data community is helping to “break down barriers that have in the past prevented the sharing of data.”