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Air Force eyes picking first cyber warrant officer cohort this summer
Air Force warrant officers could bridge the knowledge gaps between niche specialties like expeditionary communications and defensive cyber operations.
3 years later, DISA director reflects on how agency fought off elimination
Vice Adm. Nancy Norton took DISA from facing elimination to a critical agency in the response to COVID-19. Now she's retiring.
By Andrew Eversden
Excerpt from ‘Never Mind, We’ll Do It Ourselves’
This excerpt from "Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves: The Inside Story of How a Team of Renegades Broke Rules, Shattered Barriers, and Launched a Drone Warfare Revolution" covers when the team put eyes on Bin Laden in September 2000.
By Alec Bierbauer, Mark Cooter and Michael Marks
Pentagon announces new acting CIO as Deasy departs
The department's principal deputy CIO takes over from Dana Deasy until President Joe Biden's eventual pick gets confirmed.
By Andrew Eversden
Reports had warned about supply chain hacks
The path to protecting the DoD from breaches through contractors isn’t easy.
By Andrew Eversden
Pentagon shattered speed record to give 1 million people remote work tools
How top IT leaders toppled constraints that mire software projects to fast-track the remote collaboration platform.
By Andrew Eversden
Defense Department must determine the threat from quantum computers
Congress directed the Pentagon to study how quantum computers threaten critical national security systems.
By Andrew Eversden
Defense Logistics Agency finds improvements through robotic process automation
Bots at DLA have contributed over 200,000 hours of work.
By Andrew Eversden
‘Very difficult to defend’: What happens if hackers are inside the Pentagon’s networks?
Suspected Russian hackers' ability to burrow into Pentagon networks through lateral movement after the SolarWinds breach poses tremendous challenges for the department.
‘It’s going to take a lot of digging’: The Pentagon’s long search to see if anyone’s hiding in its networks
A behind-the-scenes look at how the Pentagon hunts for cyber breaches
By Andrew Eversden and Mark Pomerleau
Reported Russian hack of US systems has implications for DoD network security plans
The breach highlights security risks posed by third-party vendors.
By Andrew Eversden and Mark Pomerleau