The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says hackers are breaching federal networks by exploiting methods besides the SolarWinds Orion vulnerabilities.
By David R. Shedd
Jan 14, 2021
Confronting potential threats emerging from the rise of great-power competition dictates new approaches to collecting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). The U.S. is on the right path by making large new investments in conventional long-range precision weapons. If it does become necessary to use these advanced weapons, however, will they be effective? That is the critical question.
Throughout the Cold War, Americaâs national security focused on the former Soviet Union as the strategic threat. The U.S. intelligence community (IC) and the Air Force developed and fielded collection systems to monitor vast geographic areas. By maintaining large repositories of potential military targets, policymakers and military leaders could count on getting early indications and warnings of threats emanating from the USSR.
By Brandon Shopp
Jan 12, 2021
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, military IT leaders raced to expand network capacity and upgrade infrastructure to ensure it could meet their mission-critical workloads and support telework. Their successful efforts have established a proof of their own abilities to adapt, scale and secure their networks with speed and agility.
This will come in handy as they ask themselves what new challenges or âchoke pointsâ might arise as the nation enters the nest wave of the coronavirus.
As more Department of Defense personnel telework and government and home networks are pushed to the max, here are four things the Pentagon must consider as its plans for the impact on IT systems.
By Charlie Breeding
Jan 05, 2021
The Defense Department’s Data Strategy delivers a clear mandate: Data is a strategic asset that will be operationalized to provide a lethal and effective Joint Force. With this new mandate in hand, the next big question becomes: How do agencies make the change?
By focusing on just 20% of the objective DOD Data Strategy Sections 2.2.4 (Data Collection) and 4.3 (Make Data Understandable) DOD could produce more than 80% of the intended objective results.
Data Collection and Making Data Understandable are in the critical path of getting data to mission commanders, warfighters and decision-makers in a real-time, usable, secure and linked manner. In a recent interview with Defense Systems, Air Force Chief Data Officer Eileen Vidrine drove home the importance of high-velocity data interoperability: “We have a data strategy that s codified. It is the scaffolding, the guidance to help us. It clearly and specifically aligns to the [Nati