President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress for about $95 million in new funding to bolster cyber threat defense of computer systems across the government, Bloomberg reported Saturday. Angela Greiling Keane writes the Obama administration
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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that the country should continue to counter Islamic militant groups that use cyber warfare as a way to push humanity back to “medievalism,” The Times of Israel
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Amy Hess, executive assistant director of the FBI‘s science and technology branch, has said tools at the bureau’s Biometrics Technology Center have helped agents investigate criminal cases faster, FCW reported Tuesday. Mark
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Curtis Dukes, head of the National Security Agency’s information assurance directorate, has said IAD personnel have been tapped to analyze data breaches in both public and private sectors over the past 18
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Steve Harris, vice president and general manager of Dell‘s federal systems unit, has said he believes the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act will create momentum in agencies’ efforts to update their
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Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, commander at the Air University, has told Defense News in an interview published Monday the university aims to harness information age technology for training of future airmen, support the U.S. Air Force‘s research
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The U.S. Army will begin to offer a graduate-level certificate program in cybersecurity on Feb. 10 to all Aberdeen Proving Ground engineers and scientists in an effort to equip them with cyber
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Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, believes awareness and dialogue regarding new technologies can help U.S. efforts to drive innovation in warfare and other applications, DoD News
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The Defense Department has released a draft regulation that seeks to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement in an effort to provide additional time for contractors to comply with the National
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A weapons testing official at the Defense Department has said the Joint Program Office’s plan to complete software development work on the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft by July 31, 2017 seems unrealistic, Defense
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