Tag Archives: cyber

The U.S. Air Force is implementing an “initial qualification training” approach for defensive cyber operations to support its network modernization initiatives amid the ongoing pandemic, C4ISRnet reported Tuesday.

The U.S. Army has established a strategic operations unit as part of a reorganization effort to expand the former cyber office's functions to include joint all-domain operations. Its creation comes as part of the Army’s efforts to meet modernization objectives under the Army Campaign Plan.

The Senate has confirmed Army LTG Daniel Hokanson as the next chief of the National Guard Bureau (NGB) with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, MilitaryTimes reported on Monday. 

The U.S. Navy appointed RADM Kathleen Creighton as director of information warfare integration (N2/N6F), the service branch reported on Monday. She will succeed RADM Steven Parode.

VMware has released a cybersecurity threat report, “Extended Enterprise Under Threat,” based on a survey of 250 U.S. chief information officers (CIOs), chief technology officers (CTOs) and chief information security officers (CISOs), the company reported on Tuesday. 

Booz Allen Hamilton has appointed Kevin Richards to lead Strategic Cyber Readiness and Response and Tony Sharp to head Security Architecture and Engineering within the company Cyber Business. Richards will serve as an executive vice president and lead Booz Allen’s Strategic Cyber Readiness and Response teams. 

The U.S. Air Force is working to integrate operations at its new unit for cyber and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs after completing reorganization activities, C4ISRnet reported Thursday.

Intelsat General Communications (IGC), subsidiary of Intelsat, has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) for Satellite Communications Terminals, Technologies and Constellations Interoperability with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), the company reported on Tuesday. 

The Department of Defense (DoD) is reshuffling its research-and-development priorities as it develops new roadmaps to advance future capabilities and Mark Lewis, director of research and engineering for modernization at DoD, said microelectronics is now the Pentagon’s top priority, National Defense reported Friday.

A new report says the Defense Innovation Unit awarded 63 prototype contracts and transitioned eight commercial prototypes to Pentagon partners in 2019, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. DIU took an average of 127 days to award a prototype contract in 2019, which was 42 percent faster than in the previous year.