The Department of Defense (DoD) has appointed Nora Christine Dillman as the new deputy director of the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Dillman announced via a LinkedIn post on Sunday. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is tightening up security around the department’s information systems with a new policy on managing access to DoD IT resources. […]

Department of Defense (DoD) Acting Chief Information Officer (CIO) Leslie Beavers said this week that she is working to reduce the barriers of entry for businesses looking to partner with the DoD by simplifying processes and revising criteria. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has named Dr. Diba Hadi as its new Principal Director of the Cyber Academic Engagement Office (CAEO). […]

In June the Department of Defense (DoD) unveiled a wide-ranging vision to modernize the agency’s IT networks and compute infrastructure with the aim of providing better user-centric IT capabilities to warfighters around the globe. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today it has appointed William (Bill) Dunlap as the permanent deputy chief information officer (CIO) for information enterprise (IE). […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has appointed Leslie Beavers to take the reins as acting chief information officer (CIO), following John Sherman’s departure, according to her announcement last week on LinkedIn. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is urging other U.S. government agencies, members of the defense industrial base (DIB), and international partners to take measures to avoid typos that could inadvertently expose sensitive military information to unintended email recipients. […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) has launched the 24th annual DoD CIO Awards program with a departmentwide call for nominations to recognize individuals and teams in the DoD IT community. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) established a new office that seeks to bolster the partnership between the department and academia about cyber defense efforts, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday. […]

Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer John Sherman will be stepping down from his post at the end of this month, the department announced today. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) on June 4 released new guidance to help defense agencies implement target and advanced levels of the DoD’s Zero Trust Strategy. […]

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks is making changes to the Pentagon’s authority to operate (ATO) process, which many industry officials have argued hinders rapid technology and software innovation. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is giving defense agencies fresh direction on achieving continuous authorization for DevSecOps platforms. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded at least 47 task orders under its $9 billion multi-vendor cloud contract and expects to deliver more in the coming year, DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman told lawmakers on Friday. […]

Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman has released new cybersecurity guidance on information sharing, best practices, and training for international partners looking to develop their cybersecurity standards and procedures. […]

Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman has officially launched a Customer Experience Officer (CXO) Portfolio Management Office, a DoD spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]

The Office of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) has named Kevin Mulvihill the permanent deputy CIO for command, control, and communications (C3), the agency announced via LinkedIn on Nov. 7. […]

Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer John Sherman said his office is taking over as the lead on the Pentagon’s 5G-related activities, effective Oct. 1. […]

The Pentagon’s top technology official is pushing defense agencies and components to use the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract for all future cloud acquisitions and top-secret cloud capabilities. […]

The Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act was approved this week by the Senate Armed Services Committee on a 25-to-2 vote, including provisions for the development of 5G, artificial intelligence and quantum technologies. […]

The Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Department of Defense will retire June 30, according to a department spokesperson. […]

The bipartisan version of the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) offers paid family leave for all Federal employees, prevents the White House from merging Office of Personnel Management (OPM) functions with the General Services Administration (GSA), and establishes the Space Force as a new branch of the military. […]

The House Appropriations Committee’s Defense Appropriations Subcommittee last week approved an FY2020 defense spending bill that would withhold funding for the Defense Department to move applications to the proposed Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud until the DoD CIO reports to Congress on how the department plans to create a multicloud environment. […]

According to an internal evaluation report, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS) program is behind schedule, undermanned, full of cybersecurity issues, and should be discontinued until the system demonstrates that it can assist network defenders in detecting and responding to cyberattacks. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) is planning to issue a draft request by the end of January to solicit information on a purchase agreement to develop a cloud computing service called Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) to update the Department of Defense’s (DoD) legacy information technology applications. […]

A report from the Department of Defense Inspector General found various software management problems across several service components which the IG said raise cybersecurity risks and create unnecessary costs, but DoD’s Office of the CIO declined to respond to the draft report. […]

The Department of Defense’s Inspector General took the agency to task in a Nov. 8 report that says four DoD components failed to fully implement the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) which aims to encourage sharing of cybersecurity threat data between the government and the private sector. […]

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Tony Scott was the Federal government’s third chief information officer, serving the nation in that role from 2015 through early 2017. During his time at the helm of government-wide IT, Scott led the development of 2016’s State of Federal IT Report, which left a lasting roadmap for modernization progress in the Federal government. […]