Cyber Command news from FierceGovernmentIT

The Defense Department says it will save $10 million in the next fiscal year through disestablishment of the assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration. The number comes Read more...

Budgetary and cultural barriers are the biggest impediments to collaboration among the military services said Brig. Gen. Gregory Brundidge, director of command, control, communications and Read more...

According to the Government Accountability Office, the most glaring danger to the protection of Defense Department networks is not the array of evolving cyber threats, but the vulnerability posed by Read more...

Duties of the Defense Department chief information officer won't be transferred to Cyber Command, says an undated DOD memo posted online July 5. The memo is signed by Robert Gates, who left the Read more...

U.S. Cyber Command's concept of operations lacks detail and clarity around roles and responsibilities that enable CYBERCOM's support for Defense Department cyberspace operations, say military Read more...

Longstanding notions of sovereignty fall apart when it comes to cyber operations, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle, deputy commander of Cyber Command, said May 10. The effects of cyber Read more...

The Defense Department is close to starting a 90-day pilot with the defense industrial base that will test an active defense capability analogous to the Homeland Security Department's Einstein 3 Read more...

Should a "cyber crisis" occur, the government has to work together seamlessly, said Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency. "A crisis Read more...

Cybersecurity gets robust attention in the fiscal 2012 budget request released Feb. 14 by President Obama, with federal agencies requesting billions of dollars dedicated to cyber. The Homeland Read more...

The Defense Department's $670.9 billion budget request for fiscal 2012 is less than the Pentagon has requested in the past, but the decrease is mostly due to a sharp decrease in funding for overseas Read more...