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While it’s clear the cloud is the future of government IT, concerns surrounding cloud security continue to abound. Some agency IT personnel remain skittish about handing over data to cloud service providers and skeptical that the data will remain out of the hands of bad actors. As a result, they’re more comfortable housing information in legacy IT systems, even if those systems are, in some cases, decades old and prone to security vulnerabilities, writes SolarWinds blogger Joe Kim.

The agency showcases several of its acquisition and procurement plans at industry forecast event.

Defense Department CIO says industry can secure cloud computing environments.

An impression exists among senior U.S. government officials that moving C4ISR systems into the cloud is overhyped. They question whether the migration would improve operational effectiveness. The answer is yes, and its time has come, writes Ralph Wade, a vice president within Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategic Innovation Group with a focus on digital solutions/C4ISR across government and military organizations.

Several may change the world; all are interlinked.

New document lays out plans for department-wide operating system, use of CACs, data center consolidation and migration to cloud services.

Signal soldiers will continue to play a significant role.

Vast majority of respondents in new survey say companies are investing in mobility, cloud and IoT.

A new directorate focuses on digital technologies across the agency’s spectrum of operations and analysis.

In just a matter of weeks, DISA will open the process for requesting proposals for the next round in the U.S. Defense Department’s cloud services offering. DISA’s pre-solicitation notice serves as notification to industry of the upcoming RFP package for milCloud 2, Phase 1 contract, a government-offered service that, while not a completely commercial cloud-based system, leverages commercial products.