Steve McMahon, Splunk's interim chief information officer, has shared how his organization adapted to the information technology pressure brought by the shift to telework. "We shifted all of our services to being targeted toward remote workers. And that’s something that I think has really helped keep our employee productivity very high, because we’re meeting employees […]
The Department of Defense is working on coordinating its enterprise-wide artificial intelligence efforts by establishing a series of technical standards and best practices. Mark Lewis, director of research and engineering for modernization within the Office of the Director of Defense, is leading the charge in corralling all AI programs, which are spread out across the […]
Implementing zero-trust frameworks is the next step in advancing the Small Business Administration's cybersecurity tools and strategies, said Guy Cavallo, the agency's chief information officer. “Our next step is to take all of this to every one of the 115 different SBA locations to zero-trust networking and break apart from everything being connected and once you […]
Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, is setting his sights on partnering with commercial firms specializing in data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to foster the service’s Advanced Battle Management System. The goal is to award ABMS contracts to high-priority firms within a month to six weeks, […]
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for a machine learning platform that can improve the utility of the Department of Defense's robotic process automation tools for business tasks. DIU said it wants its RPA tools to become better at solving complex patterns by leveraging pattern recognition techniques and being more adaptable to different scenarios, FedScoop […]
Three senators have proposed a new bill called the "‘Cybersecurity Competitions to Yield Better Efforts to Research the Latest Exceptionally Advanced Problems Act of 2020," or CYBER LEAP Act, aimed at promoting prize-based grand challenges to improve the country’s cybersecurity posture. Primarily, the CYBER LEAP Act, if passed, would mandate the Commerce Secretary to establish […]
The Department of Defense has awarded ForAllSecure, a cybersecurity testing startup based in Silicon Valley, a five-year contract to test the applications of the department's weapon systems. According to a company spokesperson, the $45M contract was awarded by the DOD's Defense Innovation Unit. “One of the problems that the department runs into is this idea that there’s a […]
The U.S. Special Operations Command has been adopting and continuously fostering artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities in light of extremist threats and in support of mission-critical priorities, including next-gen mobility and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance tech. Speaking at the virtual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, Army Gen. Richard Clarke, commander of USSOCOM, said […]
Exostar, a management and secure cloud solution provider, has launched a risk management product designed to help the defense industrial base comply with government and regulatory standards. The tool, called Certification Assistant, will help clients comply with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's SP 800-171, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification and the Defense Federal […]
The Department of Homeland Security has recorded a 900 percent surge in the use of Teams, Microsoft's collaboration platform, as well as a 483 percent increase in terms of virtual private network usage amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In line with the increase in telework, Brian Forsythe, branch chief of technical assessments at DHS, said the […]
