Katie Olson Archives

Ongoing bug-bounty pilot pinpoints many vulnerabilities in DOD’s cyberspace

Through Hack U.S., the Pentagon is offering cash rewards for exposures of digital weaknesses.

Jul 8, 2022 By Brandi Vincent

Media representatives film and take pictures of a US air force aircraft parked on the tarmac after an evacuation flight from Kabul at the Rota naval base in Rota, southern Spain, on August 31, 2021. (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP via Getty Images)

From Afghanistan to Ukraine, Pentagon applies tech-centered takeaways amid modern crises

National security officials reflected on how recent global challenges are driving innovation, and new approaches to data.

Jun 13, 2022 By Brandi Vincent

The Daily Scoop Podcast

How DOD is tackling Log4j; Financial system modernization at TSP; Getting a zero trust journey going

On the latest episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, DDS Acting Director Katie Olson, Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board’s Kim Weaver on modernization efforts at TSP and…

Jan 25, 2022 By FedScoop Staff

Acting director for the Defense Digital Service on building a data driven government

DOD’s Katie Olson discusses how DDS is improving the quality of its data to ensure it is secure, usable, trustworthy and accessible.

Oct 4, 2021 By FedScoop Staff

The Daily Scoop Podcast

The Daily Scoop Podcast: September 14, 2021

On today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, Francis Rose covers a new chief of staff at CISA, markups to the NDAA and how the Defense Digital…

Sep 14, 2021 By FedScoop Staff

DDS to transfer counter-drone capabilities to Air Force

Air Force Research Lab's NINJA counter-sUAS program will absorb the Defense Digital Service's drone-sensing capabilities.

Sep 10, 2021 By Billy Mitchell

Brett Goldstein, director of Defense Digital Service, talks to Alexander Romero, digital services expert, at the Defense Digital Service office in the Pentagon, May 15, 2019. (Marine Corps Sgt. David Staten)

DDS 2.0: The Pentagon digital team’s journey from startup to full-fledged firefighter

The DDS of today is not the one it was when it started in 2015. Its current leaders explore the evolution of the team in recent years.

Mar 19, 2021 By Billy Mitchell

USS Theodore Roosevelt, COVID-19, coronavirus — U.S. Navy Hospitalmen Christian Akins, left, and Austin Brunt, assigned to Naval Hospital Guam, take a nasal sample from a sailor assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt as part of a public health outbreak investigation April 23, 2020. (U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Kaylianna Genier)

How the Defense Digital Service helped control COVID-19 outbreaks on Navy ships

"The pandemic has pushed the upper limit of what even DDS is able to do," says the tech-development agency's deputy director.

Nov 19, 2020 By Jackson Barnett