Defense Information Systems Agency news from FierceGovernmentIT

The Army has migrated 87,895 email users--about 9 percent of its total--to a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) email client hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency, but the process is currently Read more...

Defense Information Systems Agency has issued a request for information on how to establish itself as its own mobile virtual network operator. It intends to extend the Defense Department's unified Read more...

The Defense Information Systems Agency has added a social-networking element to its Forge.mil service, called Forge.mil Community. Defense Department software developers have been using ProjectForge Read more...

In the private sector, competition requires businesses to be better, faster and cheaper. While the government rarely lives by that same mantra, it is starting to do so by leveraging private industry Read more...

If the three-day government shutdown so far this week doesn't convince the Feds to get busy on telework policy, then nothing will. It's costing the federal government $100 million a day to keep its Read more...

The humanitarian relief effort in Haiti is an enormous undertaking, one that is highly dependent on U.S. information technology and telecommunications resources being deployed by the military and Read more...

The Department of Defense is putting its considerable clout behind open-source software. In a recent memo to top military officials, deputy CIO David Wennergren outlined the importance of open-source Read more...

You can never say that federal agencies have been left twisting in the wind when it comes to dealing with protection. A series of new cybersecurity services is now available to agencies under a range Read more...

The U.S. Cyber Command, created to protect the military's digital networks from attack, is looking to locate its headquarters at Fort Meade, MD in a new complex that now is being constructed to house Read more...

The end of the federal fiscal year is fast approaching, and for many government agencies, that means there is IT money to spend, and to spend quickly. If budgeted funds are not spent by Sept. 30, the Read more...