ATO to cATO Cybersecurity Transition in The Federal Government
Federal agencies have long followed the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations to help agencies select the appropriate safeguards related to cybersecurity, privacy and supply chain risk management.. A key component of how agency IT officials assess risk and deploy new information systems is …
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The Smithsonian's Digitization Program Office creates 3D scans of historical and scientific artifacts so that scientists, citizens and anyone who can't make it to the D.C.-based museums can get a closer look at the museum complex's wealth of relics.
Computing Power of Apollo 11 & The Tech Behind It
Fifty years ago this week, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle landed on the surface of the moon at the culmination of the Apollo 11 mission, and human beings first set foot on the planet’s only natural satellite.. The technological feat that enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to bounce around the Sea of Tranquility was the Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC, and the …
How DOD Can Look Beyond SIPRNet and NIPRNet - Technology …
The Department of Defense should look beyond existing communication protocols — the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network and Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network — toward commercial solutions that support secure information sharing, say comms experts.. To that end, the National Security Agency’s Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) program offers …
Software Factories for the Military Scale DevSecOps
What Is the Army’s Coding Resources and Transformation Ecosystem? The Army’s software factory, Code Resource and Transformation Environment (CReATE), is designed to help its software teams get secure, resilient and scalable applications to end users fast. It includes a suite of DevSecOps tools, services and production pipelines to enable cloud-native software …
How Platform One (P1) from the Air Force Supports DevSecOps
What Is Platform Engineering? Platform engineering refers to “the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era,” according to platformengineering.org, a professional community of practice.. Overall, platform engineering pulls together common components and …
How IBM 7094 Gave NASA Computing Superiority in the 1960s
The early mainframe model, powerful in its day, helped NASA control spacecraft for the Gemini and Apollo programs. Learn the role the IBM 7094 played in NASA's breakthrough.
Review: Dell’s OptiPlex 7050 Was Designed with Feds in Mind
Dell’s desktop PCs have been a staple of the federal workspace for 20 years.In the 1990s, the company decided to release major updates to its OptiPlex line on an occasional basis, allowing agencies to standardize and secure a reliable system that could then last for years.As such, new OptiPlex models are somewhat rare.
Q&A: The Department of Agriculture Has Big Plans for Artificial ...
As artificial intelligence pervades every facet of society, federal agencies now consider the many ways they can accelerate the use of AI-enabled tools (and whether they’re the right tool for the task). At the Department of Agriculture, the executive leading the charge on that front is Chief Data and AI Officer Christopher Alvares, who recently shared the department’s vision for AI ...
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