President Joe Biden’s interim National Security Strategic Guidance and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III’s priorities drive key areas on the Defense Department’s cloud, software network modernization, cybersecurity work,
By Terri Moon Cronk, DOD News The Defense Department wants to help its partner contractors, large and small, become better at their own cybersecurity efforts, the deputy assistant of defense
By USCYBERCOM Public Affairs FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. –For the first time in U.S. Cyber Command history, a Cyber National Mission Force task force exercised, tested, and certified the
By David Vergun, DOD News The Joint All-Domain Command and Control’s strategy goal is to link networks and sensors to warfighters with shared data in all domains — cyber, land,
By Terri Moon Cronk, DOD News Twenty years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the great threat to the nation has evolved into cyberspace — a new strategic environment where cyber
DOD News – From the battlefield to the back office, artificial intelligence has the potential to transform how the Defense Department does business in areas like increasing the speed of
By U.S. Cyber Command Historian FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md – United States Cyber Command celebrates its eleventh birthday on 21 May 2021. In the year since its 10th anniversary, USCYBERCOM
Subcommittee on Cyber, U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services Witnesses Rear Admiral William Chase IIIDeputy Principal Cyber Advisor To The Secretary Of Defense And Director Of Protecting Critical Technology Task Force
By C. Todd Lopez, DOD News Who’s hacking the U.S.? It’s not an easy question to answer, defense leaders told lawmakers, as determining if a malicious cyber attacker is a
Purpose: The subcommittee will meet to receive testimony on military operations in cyberspace and building cyber capabilities across the Department of Defense. The hearing will provide members an opportunity to
by Walter T. Ham IV DISA Public Affairs The Defense Information Systems Agency has delivered the initial Department of Defense Zero Trust Reference Architecture to help the U.S. military maintain
By David Vergun, DOD News The United States is a spacefaring nation, which depends on access to space and freedom to maneuver in space. However, there’s a potential for conflict
Ethical hackers now have many more targets within the Defense Department, DOD officials announced. The department is expanding its Vulnerability Disclosure Program to include all publicly accessible DOD information systems.
Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems, House Armed Services Committee Purpose: The Subcommittee will meet in open session to receive testimony from outside experts on technology and information
GAO-21-525T Fast Facts Potential adversaries (such as Russia and China) are using information to achieve their national objectives and undermine the security and principles of the United States—e.g., propaganda and
U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee: Subcommittee on Cyber Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Time: 02:30 PM Location: Russell SR-222 Witnesses Mr. Robert JoyceDirector Of Cybersecurity National Security Agency Mr. David McKeownSenior Information Security
By David Vergun, DOD News Being both the commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency improves the ability to provide the nation with speed, agility
GAO-21-440T Fast Facts The U.S. risks losing control of the battlefield if it doesn’t control the electromagnetic spectrum, according to the Defense Department. This range of frequencies is critical for
Fast Facts The Department of Defense has struggled to ensure its weapons systems can withstand cyberattacks. Since we last reported, DOD has taken some positive steps toward that goal, like