ATO to cATO Cybersecurity Transition in The Federal Government
A key benefit of a cATO is continuous monitoring of security system controls within IT systems. To achieve a cATO, officials will need to show that they have real-time or near-real-time cybersecurity countermeasures they can deploy, as well as a secure software supply chain. “Within the Army, continuous monitoring using a cATO helps us make ...
Federal Technology News & Trends | FedTech Magazine
The Environmental Protection Agency is a well-oiled hybrid work machine standing up multiple digitization centers and transitioning to a cloud-based telephony system while training employees to adapt to the changes. FedTech explores technology issues and successes that federal IT leaders and managers face when they’re evaluating and ...
Computing Power of Apollo 11 & The Tech Behind It
00:00. 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 ...
How IBM 7094 Gave NASA Computing Superiority in the 1960s
The IBM 7094 was the successor to the IBM 7090 mainframe. “Compatible with the IBM 7090, the advanced solid-state IBM 7094 offered substantial increases in internal operating speeds and functional capacities to match growing scientific workloads in the 1960s,” IBM notes. “The powerful IBM 7094 had 1.4 to 2.4 times the internal processing ...
How Platform One (P1) from the Air Force Supports DevSecOps
The Air Force ’s Platform One, for example, is the first DOD -approved DevSecOps managed service, providing a secure centralized software development and delivery platform, a suite of tools and training. A modern cloud-era platform, P1 provides valuable tooling, supports DevSecOps pipelines and offers a secure Kubernetes platform for hosting ...
DEC’s VAX Superminicomputer Became a Mainstay in Federal …
With VAX, DEC extended its PDP-11 minicomputer architecture from 16 to 32 bits. The first model in the VAX “superminicomputer” line was the VAX-11/780. The line rivaled “much more expensive mainframe computers in performance,” according to the online Computer History Museum. The VAX line also featured “the ability to address over 4GB ...
What Is FedRAMP Compliance and How Can Federal IT Achieve It?
FedRAMP is designed to enable agencies to “use modern cloud technologies, with an emphasis on security and protection of federal information,” the spokesperson notes. Greg Touhill, an ISACA board director and the former federal CISO, offers a more succinct description, noting that FedRAMP “is intended to provide a standardized approach to ...
Review: Dell’s OptiPlex 7050 Was Designed with Feds in Mind
It’s been two years since the last revamp. Dell clearly designed the new OptiPlex 7050 series to capitalize on its past successes. Even though the desktop has a compact form factor — measuring 11.5 inches tall in its mini-tower configuration — it’s packed with one of the fastest Intel quad-core processors: an i7 running at 3.6 gigahertz.
What is CSfC: How CSfC Components Can Boost Network Security …
The CSfC program, which got off the ground in 2016, certifies commercial network solutions that agencies can use to create secure, encrypted networks. The program is designed to enable commercial products for use in layered solutions protecting classified National Security Systems (NSS) data. The goal, the NSA says, is to give agencies “the ...
DoDIIS 2021: DIA Looks to Modernize the Government’s Top …
The Defense Intelligence Agency is undertaking a wide-ranging, five-year plan to modernize the federal government’s network for sharing and viewing top-secret intelligence. In an interview with FedTech at the 2021 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference in Phoenix, DIA CIO Doug Cossa notes that the government use of the network, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS), has evolved ...