OpinionNOAA’s budget is too small. That’s costing the US billions of dollarsWith a fiscal year 2024 budget of $6.3 billion, the nation’s leading weather and climate agency remains significantly underfunded.By Scott Rayder3 days ago
OpinionHow the government came to embrace good-faith hacking of its networksFederal agencies are inoculating public IT infrastructure by not only listening to the Internet’s Immune System, but proactively inviting healthy input.By Casey Ellis8 days ago
OpinionWhy Volt Typhoon chose routers to target critical US infrastructureRouters are targeted because they can connect networks to the internet, as well as connecting and controlling traffic across internal networks.By Phil Lewis4 weeks ago
OpinionFast data isn’t fast enough for mission-critical operations. Enter AI.Modern data architecture needs to support both the online and offline data-feeding of machine learning systems.By Cuong Nguyen5 weeks ago
OpinionFed workers are dedicated public servants, not ‘deep state’ plottersThese workers are dedicated to serving the public and the Constitution, upholding the missions of their agencies and democracy, research shows.By Jaime Kucinskas, Hamilton College and James L. Perry, Indiana University5 weeks ago
OpinionNational Cybersecurity Strategy compliance requires a modernized cloudAt the outset, there’s a need to blend legacy standards and practices with modern components to ensure all systems can communicate effectively.By Lee Koepping6 weeks ago
OpinionPersistent engagement is best defense against nation-state adversariesSloppy setups, including the use of outdated encryption methods, make attacker infrastructures vulnerable to defenders looking for countermeasures.By Ian Tarasevitsch and Mike Saxton7 weeks ago
OpinionPentagon’s high-tech transition doomed without buy-in from primesIf DoD wants to fully unlock the innovative power that small businesses are capable of providing, there needs to be a paradigm shift, the author says.By Jere Glover8 weeks ago
OpinionA robust cybersecurity workforce needs more than degree requirementsThere are more than 570,000 open cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. alone – with open positions increasing by 35% in the last year.By Dan Wilbricht8 weeks ago
OpinionA secure-by-design approach to federal open-source softwareThe security and protection of OSS are of the utmost importance as we move forward with the OS3I initiative.By Joel Krooswyk8 weeks ago
OpinionThree directions the US defense budget could goBattles over border security, as well as aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, make the outcome for the FY25 defense budget difficult to predict.By Doug Berenson8 weeks ago
To keep pace, the Pentagon needs a new way to plan its budgetThe PBBE process is no longer able to keep up with the pace of innovation and the complexity of growing national defense threats.By Robert Hale and Ellen Lord8 weeks ago