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Oracle Internet Intelligence Launches Safer Internet Initiative Tool
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Oracle Internet Intelligence Launches Safer Internet Initiative Tool

Oracle Internet Intelligence Launches Safer Internet Initiative Tool

Oracle’s Internet Intelligence group has launched a tool within the Safer Internet Initiative that will give engineers and researchers more accurate information and understanding on how to stop routing leaks, the company announced on Wednesday.

The Safer Internet Initiative’s new Oracle Internet Routing 3D Visualization seeks to improve internet enterprise safety so that users can feel secure when interacting with sensitive data on cloud based platforms or else operating critical workloads in an online environment. It also seeks to generally educate consumers on how internet routing leaks occur.

When measuring internet routing leakages, the standard measurement is usually the raw number of IP address prefixes disrupted, the new tool will factor in propagation and duration of the leak as well. According to Oracle, just using the IP prefixes risks both overstating and understating a disruption of service incident.

The tool will feature an interactive  interface that can both display current incidents as well as certain previous ones within a scale of 100 IP prefixes, and were seen by at least ten percent of Oracle’s Border Gateway Protocols (BGP).

The Safer Internet Initiative already has the Internet Intelligence Map and IXP Filter Check components and more is expected to be announced later in 2020. Oracle also announced improvements to Oracle Enterprise Manager on Jan. 15th.

About Oracle Internet Intelligence

Internet Intelligence is powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Previously known as Renesys, we’ve been recording the state of the internet 24/7 for more than a decade, analyzing the connectivity of every network and every service provider—in every market on earth—at one-second resolution.

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Deloitte Reports Top 5 Tech Trends for 2020; Scott Buchholz, Bill Briggs Quoted
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Deloitte Reports Top 5 Tech Trends for 2020; Scott Buchholz, Bill Briggs Quoted

Deloitte Reports Top 5 Tech Trends for 2020; Scott Buchholz, Bill Briggs Quoted

Deloitte’s 11th annual technology report has revealed the top five tech trends for 2020, the company announced on Wednesday.

“The most successful businesses today are combining cutting-edge technologies like machine learning and IoT with disruptive IT architecture and supercharged talent to create entirely new ways of working – and they already see the benefits,” said Scott Buchholz, emerging technologies research director and government and public services CTO at Deloitte Consulting LLP.

Deloitte has hypothesized the collaboration of IT and finance leaders to develop new flexible approaches for funding innovation at the speed of Agile. The five trends the company reported include digital twins, the new role technology architects play in business outcomes, and affective computing-driven “human experience platforms” that have redefined the way humans and machines interact.

The company has outlined digital twin technology as a joint between the physical and digital. The report states that the technology will allow businesses to create new virtual models to optimize processes, products and services. The organizations will integrate IoT, machine learning, advanced computing infrastructure and more to unlock entirely new business models.

In the second trend known as ‘Architecture Awakens,” Deloitte has reported that architecture will become a strategic priority. The company has predicted the architect role will be more nimble, responsive and collaborative.

Organizations have begun to view technology as a way to gain or lose customer trust and it also reflects back on company brand and loyalty. Deloitte stated that chief information officers (CIOs) will emphasize ethical tech and create processes to help solve ethical dilemmas related to disruptive technologies, as part of the Ethical Technology and Trust trend.

Deloitte has described the “Human Experience Platforms” trend as the disconnect humans often experience with daily digital interactions. Recently, organizations have started injecting emotional intelligence into their systems.

The new AI capabilities, including machine learning and voice and facial recognition, will detect and respond to human emotions to create intelligent human experiences that use connections between people, systems, data and products.

The final trend, “Finance and the Future of IT,” states that businesses will become more agile and financial operations will need to support new modes of action. Deloitte has claimed that CIOs and chief financial officers (CFOs) will need to create a new approach to enterprise finance, including reimagining the budget, contracts and capital plans as technology becomes more innovative.

“Technology is constantly in motion. Executives should take tomorrow’s cues from today’s trends. ‘Horizon next’ technologies are evolving out of today’s core trends, sometimes in unexpected ways, giving rise to new opportunities,” added Bill Briggs, chief technology officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP.

About Deloitte

Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world’s most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 5,000 private and middle market companies.

Our people work across the industry sectors that drive and shape today’s marketplace — delivering measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in our capital markets, inspire clients to see challenges as opportunities to transform and thrive, and help lead the way toward a stronger economy and a healthy society.

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GAO: Service Leaders Need to Highlight Key Practices to Address Reliability in Weapon Systems
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GAO: Service Leaders Need to Highlight Key Practices to Address Reliability in Weapon Systems

GAO: Service Leaders Need to Highlight Key Practices to Address Reliability in Weapon Systems

The Government Accountability Office has recommended that secretaries of the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy issue policy emphasizing three practices to achieve reliability when developing weapons systems.

GAO said Tuesday those practices are leveraging reliability engineers often and early in the development process; setting up realistic reliability requirements; and utilizing reliability engineering activities to enhance a system’s design throughout development.

The congressional watchdog reviewed commercial companies’ efforts to address reliability and found that the firms emphasize reliability with their suppliers or contractors in addition to adopting the three key practices.

GAO also examined seven acquisition programs at the Department of Defense and discovered that such programs did not consistently implement the key reliability practices and often focused on cost and schedule.

“In an environment emphasizing speed, without senior leadership focus on a broader range of key reliability practices, DOD runs the risk of delivering less reliable systems than promised to the warfighter and spending more than anticipated on rework and maintenance of major weapon systems,” GAO said in the report.

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State Dept Eyes Improved User Experience With Cloud Pilots
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State Dept Eyes Improved User Experience With Cloud Pilots

State Dept Eyes Improved User Experience With Cloud Pilots

The State Department has begun allowing some offices abroad to customize their cloud-based applications as part of an effort to improve user experience, FedScoop reported Tuesday.

Brian Merrick, director of the department’s cloud program management office, said one pilot post recently completed the discovery process and the State Department plans to carry out additional pilots in 2020.

“The goal really is to make sure that we can manage a cloud-based environment that will allow us to provide the posts the local configuration capabilities they need to be able to deliver to their business customers, while doing it at an enterprise scale, securely, with a single identity,” Merrick said. “And with a single contract and funding model so that we don’t have the overhead costs.”

He said overseas posts are being selected for the pilot based on several factors, including app maturity, connectivity, austerity and levels of security.

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Ellen Lord: Pentagon to Form Counter-UAS Office
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Ellen Lord: Pentagon to Form Counter-UAS Office
Ellen Lord
Ellen Lord

Ellen Lord, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, said DoD plans to establish an Army-led office focused on counter-unmanned aerial systems, National Defense reported Tuesday.

“The thing that was really top of everybody's mind were counter-UAS,” she told reporters Tuesday. “We see that small UAS are becoming a more popular weapon of choice … [and] we need to be agile and pivot to that challenge.”

Lord, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, said the office will look at counter-UAS programs across the Pentagon and develop three to five platforms. She added that Robert Behler, director of operational test and evaluation at DoD, has a group that performs independent tests of deployed systems.

“Come April we will have that evaluation completed and written up. And that coincides [with] when we want to make some decisions about downselecting … to the three to five systems that would be utilized,” she said.

The proposed counter-drone office will be based in Arlington, Va., and will operate with about 60 personnel.

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Gen. Mark Milley: Collaborative Commitment Key for NATO Allies to Maintain Regional Peace
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Gen. Mark Milley: Collaborative Commitment Key for NATO Allies to Maintain Regional Peace
Mark Milley
Mark Milley

U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a 2019 Wash100 Award winner, has said NATO member countries should remain committed to collaboration and avoid complacency to help preserve regional peace and stability, DoD News reported Tuesday.

He told the publication in an interview at the NATO Military Committee meeting in Brussels that the international alliance's mission is to prevent great power conflicts.

"Peace doesn't happen by accident: It happens because of effort, resources, commitment, allies banding together," the general added.

Milley said he thinks NATO should also explore other potential support its members can provide to allied troops as tensions in the Middle East intensify.

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Air Force Calls for Help in Space Weather Efforts
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Air Force Calls for Help in Space Weather Efforts

Air Force Calls for Help in Space Weather Efforts

The U.S. Air Force has asked the assistance of various sectors in the study of space weather and terrestrial data, SpaceNews reported Monday.

USAF has turned to the academe and industry to help in space weather data collection and modeling efforts. The service branch has also collaborated with Five Eyes member nations such as Australia and Canada in line with the collection and analysis of weather forecast information.

“We are reaching out to the broader community, both in the U.S. and our international partners, to ensure that we have something as basic as the right observations across Antarctica,” said Gary Kubat, deputy weather director at the Air Force headquarters.

Kubat noted that representatives from Five Eyes member nations have met to discuss efforts on polar modeling, expeditionary equipment and space weather.

The Air Force is slated to adopt a geostationary weather-tracking satellite owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in support of weather forecasting activities.

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Navy, Lockheed to Test Laser System on USS Little Rock LCS
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Navy, Lockheed to Test Laser System on USS Little Rock LCS
Navy, Lockheed to Test Laser System on USS Little Rock LCS

The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin plan to integrate the company’s 150-kilowatt laser system into the USS Little Rock littoral combat ship as part of the service’s risk reduction efforts, USNI News reported Monday.

LCS-9, which is potentially slated for deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet, will be fitted with the high-energy laser ahead of plans to begin LCS lethality and survivability modification activities starting fiscal year 2022.

Joe DePietro, vice president and general manager of small combatants and ship systems at Lockheed, told USNI News that the two-phase modernization effort includes naval strike missile capabilities and surface electronic warfare technologies.

He noted that directed-energy systems and laser systems could be added to vessels that don’t need a large amount of space and weight.

The Navy previously selected amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland to assess the 150kw laser’s capacity as part of the Solid-State Laser – Technology Maturation program.

VA’s Kshemendra Paul: New Laws Reduce Data Isolation in Agencies
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VA’s Kshemendra Paul: New Laws Reduce Data Isolation in Agencies
Kshemendra Paul
Kshemendra Paul

Kshemendra Paul, chief data officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said new data usage laws have reduced the amount of unused information in agencies, FCW reported Monday.

This development addresses the barrier between unused information and systems that might be in need of isolated data. The Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary Government Data Act directs agencies to appoint a CDO to oversee data-related activities. This law and the Foundations for Evidence Based Policymaking Act aim to promote the transparency, modernization and informative use of public data.

"All too often data ends up in programmatic stovepipes, and it's not managed so you end up with data rot,” Paul said at an event with the Association of Government Accountants. “Key to the CDO role is the idea that now there's a senior agency official that's looking at data across its lifecycle,” he added.

VA’s data activities include analysis for the department’s policy and budgeting activities.

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Three Grant Awardees Selected Under US-Israel Joint Product Dev’t Effort
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Three Grant Awardees Selected Under US-Israel Joint Product Dev’t Effort
Three Grant Awardees Selected Under US-Israel Joint Product Dev't Effort

Three partnerships have received $2.3M in funds from the Israel – U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation to build technologies that will support homeland security efforts.

The foundation is established as part of a joint program between the Department of Homeland Security's science and technology directorate and the Israel Ministry of Public Security to speed up collaborative activities between Israel and the U.S. across various technology sectors to foster product development, DHS said Monday.

The initiative will provide funds up to 50 percent of the combined budget and validate potential strategic partners through collaborations with various companies. The technologies that will be developed out of this effort include a tracking device for firefighters, an artificial intelligence-based analytics video security system and a multimission drone command and control technology.

“We are pleased this new cycle helped recruit new companies to the BIRD ecosystem while continuing to build our strong working relationship with DHS and MOPS,” said Eitan Yudilevich, executive director at the BIRD Foundation.

The awardees are:

  • Blue White Robotics and Easy Aerial
  • Cawamo and LiveView Technologies
  • S.H. Goren Management and Innovation and 3AM
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