Posts from GovConDaily for 05/12/2016

Guest Post: CACI Chairman Jack London on Accountability & Shifting Mindsets From Blame to Opportunity

(Jack London serves as executive chairman of CACI International) A key component of being a strong leader is exhibiting and empowering accountability. Organizations deal with a variety of challenges stemming from change, risk-taking and uncertainty…

Angela Messer: Booz Allen Cyber Practice Contains ‘Tribes’ of Professionals

Angela Messer, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said the company’s cyber practice is composed of what she called various “tribes” of professionals that work to address cyber threats through a “consultative approach to problem solving…

Michael Overstreet: DoD Looks to Update Enforcement Strategies on Network Segmentation

The Defense Department looks to address challenges on network segmentation and update previous enforcement strategies that use access control lists on enclave firewalls of routers, a blog entry posted on the Cisco website said Wednesday…

Sue Gordon: NGA Forms Team to Help Agency Establish Silicon Valley Partnerships

Sue Gordon, deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has said NGA has set up a team of personnel in Silicon Valley that will work to forge partnerships and facilitate innovation, Federal News Radio reported Thursday…

Arati Prabhakar: DARPA Holds Demo Day for Partners to Share Science, Tech Initiatives

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency held its DARPA Demo Day 2016 at the Pentagon Wednesday to provide members of the Defense Department community an “up-close” look at DARPA’s technology and military systems portfolio…

Mitre Vice Chairman Donald Kerr Receives AFCEA Award for Intelligence Community Contributions

The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International has selected Mitre Corp. Vice Chairman Donald Kerr as a recipient of the 2016 Charlie Allen Award for Distinguished Intelligence Service…

DoD News: Bob Work Visits Romania for Ballistic Missile Defense Site Launch

Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work has visited Romania to meet with government officials and attend the inauguration of a land-based ballistic missile defense facility at Deveselu on Thursday, DoD News reported Wednesday…

NSA, DHS Name Multiple Universities as Centers of Excellence in Cyber Defense

Five universities were commended by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security as national centers of academic excellence in cyber defense, HSToday reported Wednesday. The new centers of academic excellence in cyber defense are the University of Delaware, University of Cincinnati’s Information Technology School, University of Missouri in St…

OpenTheBooks: DoD Has Transferred $2B in Surplus Military Gear to Local Police Depts Since 2006

OpenTheBooks, a watchdog group that monitors government spending activities, has found that the Defense Department has transferred approximately $2.2 billion in surplus military equipment to local police departments across the U…

Tel-Instrument Electronics Receives Army Orders for Test Sets

The U.S. Army has awarded a $1.3 million order to Tel-Instrument Electronics for the delivery of CRAFT 708 units with scheduled deliveries for the second calendar year quarter. Tel-Instrument Electronics also received orders from the U…

NOAA Updates Global Forecast System to Process 4-D Weather Data, Provide Hourly Updates; Louis Uccellini Comments

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has updated the Global Forecast System in an effort to process four-dimensional weather data and provide hourly updates on weather conditions. NOAA said Wednesday the update was made through the use of supercomputers that the agency acquired early this year…