TechNet Cyber 2020

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Small Businesses Can Prosper with DISA

The agency has a clear priority to work with smaller firms, officials say.

Carlen Capenos (top l), director, DISA Office of Small Business Programs; Debra Daniels (r), Vice Procurement Services executive; and Douglas Packard, Procurement Services executive and director of the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization, provide the DISA Small Business Forecast to Industry at AFCEA TechNet Cyber on December 3.

DISA Exploring Quantum-Resistant Cryptography

Adversaries may have quantum computers within seven years.

With U.S. adversaries expected to be using quantum computing technologies in the next several years, officials at the Defense Information Systems Agency are exploring quantum-resistant technologies.Credit: metamorworks/Shutterstock

DOD Culture Still Impedes Rapid Development

The department continues to refine DevSecOps.

Danielle Metz, acting deputy CIO for information enterprise, outlines obstacles the Defense Department faces in implementing rapid technology development and fielding processes.

Know Your Knowledge

Having a strategic vision for data is as important as organizing it.

A Prandtl-M prototype is air launched by a Carbon Cub aircraft in a NASA test to simulate the flight conditions of the Martian atmosphere. The conventional aircraft in the Earth’s atmosphere is used to test a prototype interplanetary probe to glean knowledge that would be applied millions of miles distant. Credit: NASA imagery

Technology Is Needed to Maintain Crucial DISA Operations

DISA directorates on the front line of tactical operations and network management seek innovation from industry.

The Defense Information Systems Agency's Operations Center makes sure that capabilities developed and built are operating as intended to meet warfighter and mission partner requirements and day to day operations, and it needs robust and effective industry solutions, says David Bennet, director of the Operations Center. Credit: DISA

DISA Embraces DevSecOps for Future Contracts

The agency is developing a prototype “pipeline” for speedy acquisition.

Defense Information Systems Agency officials are moving toward a secure and agile software development process known as DevSecOps for new contracts. Credit: Andrey Suslov/Shutterstock

DISA Defines Industry Needs

Annual Forecast to the Industry from DISA’s top contracting officials sets the tone for innovation and partnership.

Maj. Gen. Garrett Yee, USA, assistant to the director, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), adorned with 3D glasses, speaks last year about the agency's annual Forecast to Industry. For 2021, DISA is looking to build on the activities it ramped up during the pandemic. Credit: DISA

Vice Adm. Nancy Norton, USN, director, Defense Information Systems Agency and commander, JFHQ-DODIN, in outlines the agency's annual Forecast to Industry, stresses that any cyber solution presented by industry must be scalable, well tested and mission effective.

The Defense Information Systems Agency's technological priorities for the next few years includes zero trust architecture, cloud, access and security, and agile software development. Credit: DISA

U.S. Space Force Forecasts Commercial SATCOM Contracts

Contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars will be awarded in the coming months.

A U.S. Space Force office has revealed a hundreds of millions of dollars in commercial satellite contracts to be awarded in the coming months. Credit; Panuwatccn/Shutterstock

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