Former Defense Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen has been hired at Samsung Electronics Co. to help expand the company's global B2B mobile business.
The National Background Investigation Bureau will take over as the federal government's improved background investigations and security clearance entity Oct. 1, but its more secure and modernized…
Sep 29, 2016
DOD cybersecurity official Marianne Bailey, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise executive retired Maj. Gen. Earl D. Matthews (left) and FedScoop’s Wyatt Kash at the Federal Cybersecurity Summit (FedScoop)
Every Friday the CIOs of the military services and major pentagon agencies convene with Terry Halvorsen, the Defense Department CIO, to go over the latest data from…
The Defense Department is planning in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017 to launch a team to review some of the department’s worst performing data centers…
The Pentagon's ability to certify and accredit the IT products and services it uses is no longer rapid enough to keep pace with developing technologies and "maintain…
The reshaping of the Pentagon CIO’s office proposed in the annual defense policy bill would “complicate rather than improve” oversight of cyber policy and “distract” from the CIO’s current…
Jun 7, 2016
Rep. Jason Chaffetz holds up a floppy disk to drive home the point that government IT systems are using technology that is more than 50 years old. (House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform)
An eight-inch floppy disk was the center of attention during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing Wednesday, serving as an example of how federal…
May 25, 2016
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