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IT & Networks

How this military transportation unit avoids writing the same piece of code 72 times

U.S. Transportation Command is using a cloud strategy called Platform as a Service as a way to avoid repetitive work.
Agencies failed to identify over a quarter of IT contracts in 2016

A recent GAO report has found that within 22 federal agencies reviewed, 31,493 IT contracts accounting for $4.5 billion went unidentified by those agencies in 2016.
Cybersecurity firm: US Senate in Russian hackers’ crosshairs

Fancy Bear, the group whose hacking campaign scrambled the 2016 U.S. electoral contest, is “still very active — in making preparations at least — to influence public opinion again,” said Feike Hacquebord, a security researcher at Trend Micro Inc., which published the report. “They are looking for information they might leak later.”
The DoD office you’ve never heard of — and why that’s about to change

As fiscal pressures mount, modernization is by no means certain unless we do something about the efficiency of our acquisition programs.