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OMB turns up oversight heat with cyberstat

The administration's IT agenda for fiscal 2012 will include new tools to combat cyber threats as well as major overhauls to how agencies manage their systems. Agency CIOs say agility will be important moving forward.

Tags: technology , management , contracting , cybersecurity , Vivek Kundra , Richard Spires , Roger Baker , GSA , USDA , VA , DHS , Education , OMB , cyberstats , collaboration , agile development , IT budget , program oversight , Meg Beasley

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DoD wants common cyber picture

The Cyber Command is focused on achieving real-time capabilities, but the director of current operations said they still have serious work to do. He appealed to industry leaders for help designing a sufficient platform.

Tags: cybersecurity , technology , DoD , Cyber Command , John Davis , cybersecurity workforce , Meg Beasley

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DISA struggles to ensure freedom in cyberspace

DoD is trying to figure out how to keep risks that one part of the organization takes from affecting the rest of the military's networks. DISA addressing other security goals by adding PKI to secret network.

Tags: technology , Richard Hale , DISA , cybersecurity , public key infrastructure , DMZs , Jason Miller

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Air Force models rapid IT development

The Defense Department wants its information technology projects to be developed in smaller, faster chunks that take no more than 18 months to deploy. One Air Force program executive officer says he's already doing it in 12 months.

Tags: DoD , contracting , technology , IT acquisition , agile development , C4ISR , Steve Wert , acquisition workforce , Jared Serbu

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DoD hoping for shorter GAO High Risk List

The Defense Department's leader of business process reform said Friday that she's hopeful the Government Accountability Office will remove one of DoD's high risk areas from its biennial list of government trouble spots. GAO is expected to issue the list within the next several weeks.

Tags: DoD , management , best practices , Elizabeth McGrath , GAO , High Risk list , security clearances , Jared Serbu

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Agencies building trust to reduce data centers

Several departments are out ahead of the OMB mandate to consolidate data facilities over the next four years. Energy is starting small to show business owners they will get the same level of service under the new setup. Other agencies see green in cutting back on the centers-both money and energy efficiency.

Tags: technology , Bill Turnbull , Cindy Cassil , Margie Graves , Alfred Rivera , DHS , State , Energy , OMB , DISA , data center consolidation , cloud computing , green IT , enterprise e-mail , Jason Miller

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Defense expands cyber DMZs

DoD is expanding the use of demilitarized zones to improve security of its unclassified network. Over the next two years, DISA require all service applications to go through these buffer zones.

Tags: technology , Richard Hale , Dave Mihelcic , Larry Huffman , DISA , DoD , Cyber Command , cybersecurity , BRAC , Jason Miller

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DISA widening space between network, public Internet

DoD is expanding the use of demilitarized zones to improve security of its unclassified network. Over the next two years, DISA require all service applications to go through these buffer zones.

Tags: technology , Richard Hale , Dave Mihelcic , Larry Huffman , DISA , DoD , Cyber Command , cybersecurity , BRAC , Jason Miller

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DISA wants more vendor accountability

DISA's Tony Montemarano said the agency wants to use more performance based contracts to better manage contractors.

Tags: contracting , industry , technology , Tony Montemarano , DISA , DoD , BRAC , Meg Beasley

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CIOs use 'agile acquisition' to modernize, cut costs

In the world of federal information technology, the buzz is around "agile acquisition". Led by the Office of Management and Budget, agency chief information officers are being asked to build IT modernization in smaller, more modular programs -- and for less money. Federal News Radio's Max Cacas brings the latest from the AFCEA luncheon.

Tags: Max Cacas , Dorobek Insider , OMB , agile acquisition , technology

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