The Morphing Network Assets to Restrict Adversarial Reconnaissance (MORPHINATOR) program is applying a process known as cyber maneuvering to rearrange key network characteristics such as IP addresses, service ports and operating software to prevent intruders from getting a good look at it.
The Army has awarded the Raytheon Company a $3.1 million contract to develop a computer defense technology that constantly changes a network’s characteristics to confuse attackers.
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This year’s 100 most influential executives in the government IT community were honored at a a gala tonight at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C.
The Federal 100 Awards recognize government and industry leaders who have played pivotal roles in the federal government IT community and who “have made a difference in the way technology has transformed their agency or accelerated their agency’s mission.” Keep reading →
The U.S. Army’s efforts to move to new, single enterprise email service would be halted, at least temporarily, if language in the 2012 defense authorization bill approved by House and Senate negotiators Monday goes into effect, according to a report by Federal News Radio.
The legislation orders Army Secretary John McHugh to designate the service’s enterprise-email transition as a formal acquisition program, which would be overseen by the Army’s assistant secretary for acquisitions, logistics and technology, rather than under the direction of the Army’s G-6 CIO office. Keep reading →
Earlier this month, I received the Department of Defense Request for Information (RFI) on the DoD Enterprise Information Web and a request to talk about how the semantic web can help DOD in particular, and perhaps the federal government on a broader scale as well.
Having recently completed a three month assignment at Binary Group to help bring semantic web standards and semantic technologies to various parts of the Department of Defense (DoD), I gained an increased appreciation and respect for the work of DoD and our service people. I learned more about their specific content and IT requirements and wanted to share some of my lessons learned with our readers.
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The Army has entered DISA’s Cloud Computing Purple Zone.
It’s secure. It’s effective. And it is saving the Army $100 million this year alone on enterprise email operating costs, according to Mike Krieger, deputy chief information officer, G-6, U.S. Army. Keep reading →