Sean Connelly, Trusted Internet Connections program manager at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said the TIC 3.0 guidance for network security encourages agencies to segment networks into “trust zones” as part of zero-trust architecture, FedScoop reported Wednesday.

“We are starting to talk to a number of agencies to look at microsegmentation architectures. It’s one step toward that modernization of their environment,” Connelly said Wednesday at IBM’s Think Gov digital event. “We look at it as a way for them to secure their traffic across the enterprise, as opposed to focusing on the traditional network perimeter.”

He called on agencies to allow zero-trust architecture to coexist with conventional strategies for network security as they continue to deal with on-premise data centers, multicloud or hybrid networks.

“Right now zero trust is not a complete architecture, where a lot of agencies are in a position to adopt zero trust across the entire enterprise,” Connelly said.

The Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC) has updated the Tactical Communications Marketplace to reflect the inclusion of an inventory for commercial joint communications products. The Joint Communications Marketplace will work to present waveform technologies, tactical radios and other offerings via a virtual interface, the U.S. Navy said Tuesday.

The portal also delivers actionable data for informed purchase decisions to help government customers meet capability needs. The service branch seeks to update the Department of Defense's (DoD) procurement approach for communications offerings through the product hub.

Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) plans to deliver cyber baseline applications across 56 ships in the current fiscal year to boost the service branch's cyber readiness. The effort aims to equip more ships with the cyber baseline, a web-based application that supports a ship's compliance with the cybersecurity requirements imposed by the Department of Defense (DoD), the Navy said Monday.

The cyber baseline provides a library of afloat and ashore networks operated by the U.S. Navy. NAVWAR intends to exceed the last fiscal year's delivery count of 40 cyber baselines.

“Despite today’s current circumstances, our Navy and our nation are continuing to experience an unprecedented degree of competition in the maritime environment,” said Mike Spencer, executive director of NAVWAR's Fleet Readiness Directorate.

FRD's cybersecurity office has delivered a total of 80 cyber baselines since 2018 and aims to bring that number up to 180 by fiscal 2022.

The U.S. Air Force is slated to hold a virtual event in an effort to build strategies and approaches that may address digital technology gaps.

The four-day Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower conference will tackle various topics such as cyber operations, artificial intelligence and multi-domain effects, the service branch said Tuesday.

Arthur Hatcher, acting deputy chief information officer at the Air Force, said the conference will feature panels, breakout sessions and keynote speeches.

USAF seeks to gather various information technology professionals from industry, academia and the government in the event.

The virtual conference will run from August 24 through 27.

The U.S. Navy has concluded the migration of its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment and is processing transactions worth over $70 billion in the cloud infrastructure, Nextgov reported Tuesday.

The cloud migration effort serves as the Navy’s largest one to date and saw terabytes of data across various ledger systems in legacy on-premises infrastructure transition toward the AWS GovCloud environment.

The migration comes as part of the Navy’s plans to use a single ledger system to modernize financial transactions for over 70,000 users around the world, according to the report.

Edward Quick, program manager for the Navy’s enterprise business solutions program, said during an AWS virtual event that the migration helped the Navy make “timely and informed decisions” around financial operations, maintenance logs and advanced analytics activities.

“Putting Navy ERP in the cloud also adds a layer of protection to the data—with only one cloud-based depository of data to protect instead of a myriad of computing hardware,” he noted.

According to Quick, the Navy deployed an AWS-built edge storage tool called Snowball and SAP’s maintenance technology to speed up the migration process.

Mark Lewis, director of defense research and engineering for modernization at the Department of Defense (DoD), has said the department needs to modify its operational mindset to meet its hypersonic program goals, DoD News reported Tuesday.

Lewis said at a Hudson Institute-hosted discussion that the DoD needs to accept more risks in developing and testing new technologies such as hypersonic missiles and boost/glide systems. According to Lewis, programs with more consecutive testing activities will enable the DoD to prevent the loss of knowledge and talent.

"We need to be less risk-averse. And that doesn't mean we seek to maximize risk. But it also means we're not afraid to take risks, or we're not afraid to fail, as long as they're what I term noble failures," he added. "We learn as we're doing. We're not constantly relearning how to do what we used to know how to do."

Lewis noted that he expects the DoD to deliver hypersonic systems at scale by the mid-2020’s.