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US Cyber Command Moving to Joint Common Access Program

09/09/2021
Cybersecurity in the Federal Government: Offensive missions will be conducted via unified platform across the US Cyber Command by 2024. The US Cyber Command is a component of the Department of Defense. It includes three teams each from several military ... Read More
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Cybersecurity in the Federal Government: Proposed Legislation and More

07/13/2021
Two bipartisan bills were introduced this past spring to help bolster the government’s cyber needs. Also, a CIO at the DoD gets disciplined for leaking information, and the MDA’s approach to cybersecurity testing.  Federal Retirement Webinars Scholarships for Service At ... Read More
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Emergency Paid Leave Fund Has to Be Used by Sept. 30 or Until Funds Run Out

07/01/2021
Federal Employees looking to take advantage of the Emergency Paid Leave may have to act fast as funds are getting gobbled up by agencies. Complimentary Webinars for Feds The American Rescue Plan Act was passed by Congress earlier this year ... Read More
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Defense Contracts for Augmented Reality, Night Vision, and Cloud Computing

06/10/2021
The Pentagon recently indicated it is not abandoning the JEDI contract with Microsoft despite prolonged legal delays- plus other defense contracts for AR and Night Vision Goggles. Complimentary Webinars The JEDI Contract The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI) cloud ... Read More

White House’s Cybersecurity Response to Russian Hack

02/22/2021
2020 Cybersecurity breach of Federal Agencies causes Biden Administration to focus heavily on cyber-threats. SolarWinds is a US government contractor that supplies I.T. software to several federal agencies. In the spring of 2020, while the globe was attacked with a ... Read More

Elon Musk and William Shatner Express Criticism Over US Space Force

09/15/2020
Both the CEO of SpaceX and the television star from ‘Star Trek’ recently released their criticisms with the newest military branch, the Space Force Last month, the US Space Force awarded a lucrative DoD contract to both SpaceX and its ... Read More

New Cyber Commander for US Navy After Naval Command Publishes 5-Year Plan

09/09/2020
Along with a new Cyber Commander, tactical cyber teams and other plans are published in Naval Command’s plans for the next half-decade. Vice Admiral Timothy White, who has commanded the Navy’s strategic cyber fleet in a publicly quiet fashion, will ... Read More

Army’s Cyber-Blitz Events Gets New Name, Sharper Focus

08/27/2020
The Annual Cyber-Blitz event was originally designed for the Army to test emerging tech- but in the past 2 years has matured in a Multi-Domain operation Cybersecurity, including the rapidly growing field of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), has become a much ... Read More

Space Force to Absorb Cybersecurity Staff from Air Force

08/19/2020
Although not included in the US Cyber Command Mission Force at the DoD, the new Space Force looks to build cybersecurity component The US Cyber Command Mission is an apparatus of the Department of Defense (DoD). The Airforce, Coast Guard, ... Read More

Clarifications to Parental Leave Rules, Starting October 1st

08/18/2020
OPM clarifies parental leave rules, including eligibility for certain agencies and their employees. Paid parental leave for federal employees, which goes into effect on October 1st of this year, is a welcomed new benefit to many workers on the government’s ... Read More