Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

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AFRICOM Plans High-Speed Circuits To Liberia

Bob Brewin | Nextgov.com | October 31, 2014

The U.S. military plans to lease a 622 megabit terrestrial circuit from Europe to Liberia in a matter of weeks to support Internet service for U.S. troops as they continue to deploy to Liberia to help counter the Ebola virus, U.S. Africa Command’s top communications official told Nextgov...

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Defense Health Agency Focusing On IT For Savings, Efficiencies

Amber Corrin | FCW | January 13, 2014

One of the Defense Department's newest components is at the center of one of the Pentagon's biggest IT program overhauls, but the Defense Health Agency is also looking beyond an update of electronic health records to other ways technology can empower change amid budget cuts. Read More »

DISA Data Centers to Play Host to VA-DoD Health Records System

Jack Moore | Federal News Radio | March 8, 2012

The Defense Information Systems Agency, which manages several IT functions for the federal government and the military services, will play a key role in the integration of health records between the Veterans Affairs Department and the Defense Department. Read More »

DISA Eyes Tablets and Smartphones for Europe, Mideast and Africa

Bob Brewin | NextGov | November 10, 2011

While Apple and Google have yet to win government security certification for their operating systems that power smartphones and tablets, the Defense Information Systems Agency signaled in a notice to industry Tuesday that it wants to use commercial mobile devices in its network. Read More »

DISA moves to sole source open source support contract

David Perera | FierceGovernmentIT | August 16, 2012

The Defense Information Systems Agency says it intends to sole source an open source support contract for software that in fact appears to be commonly supported. In an Aug. 14 notice posted onto FedBizOps, DISA says only Broomfield, Colo.-based Open Logic is able to provide support for open source software utilized by the Wounded Warrior traumatic brain injury and behavioral health project managed by the Defense Health Information Management System.

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DISA Revises Software Guideline Clarifying Open Source Rules

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | January 4, 2012

The Defense Information Systems Agency has updated the Application Security & Development Security Technical Implementation Guide, clarifying a commonly-misunderstood Defense Department policy that many saw as a hurdle to open source software use at DoD.

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DoD EHR 'Substantially' Defined In Latest Draft RFP

Molly Bernhart Walker | Fierce Government IT | June 18, 2014

After several draft versions, a request for proposal for the Defense Department's highly-anticipated electronic health record is taking shape...

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Hackers Execute Sophisticated Strike On Government Cybersecurity Contractor Bit9

Aliya Sternstein | Nextgov | February 11, 2013

Unprotected computers at a cybersecurity contractor that services the Defense Information Systems Agency and many other federal agencies were compromised in a way that enabled the company's product to run viruses on customer networks. Read More »

IBM, Epic Already Prepping For Military EHR Work

Adam Mazmanian | FCW | January 7, 2015

The IBM team has plenty of competition from other teams of top federal technology integrators and electronic health records providers. But since announcing its bid back in June 2014, IBM has been exuding confidence that its team is in the best position to land the deal and execute the military's vision for a new health care system. Read More »

iEHR Aims To Be Agile And Open

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | October 22, 2012

Agile techniques have gained importance as the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments try to quickly launch the integrated electronic health record, or iEHR. With more than 100 scrum teams working at once, it's a lot to coordinate, said Barclay Butler, director of the DoD-VA interagency program office. Read More »

iPhones And iPads Poised To Win Key Pentagon Security Nod Next Week

Aliya Sternstein | Nextgov | May 9, 2013

Apple, within days, is set to finish clearing two safety hurdles that had kept the iPhone and iPad out of fingers’ way in the Defense Department and some civilian agencies. Read More »

Larry Ellison, NSA Database Supplier, Approves Of NSA Surveillance

Philip Bump | The Atlantic Wire | August 13, 2013

Larry Ellison is exceedingly rich and powerful. He is the third-most-wealthy person in the United States and runs Oracle, the database giant. And yet somehow, as he revealed during an interview on CBS Tuesday morning, he is hopelessly uninformed on the ramifications of NSA surveillance. Or, perhaps willfully uninformed. After all, the NSA is an Oracle client, which CBS didn't mention. Read More »

NSA’s Open Source “Accumulo” At Center of White House Veto Threat

Dan Verton | Homeland Security Today | November 30, 2012

The White House Thursday threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2013, citing, among other things, a provision dealing with the National Security Agency’s (NSA) open-source database project known as “Accumulo,” arguing that the bill could hinder NSA’s ability to support the new national defense strategy. Read More »

Pentagon App Store Is Open, But The Shelves Are Pretty Bare

William Matthews | Nextgov.com | May 8, 2014

The Defense Information Systems Agency’s new Mobile Applications Store is open for business, but don’t expect to shop there for military-grade killer software...But of the 19 apps available in the store as of April 30, only one is a unique military application—DoD Safe Helpline...

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Train Wreck Raises Questions About DISA Back-Up

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | August 24, 2012

A train wreck in Ellicott City, Md., Tuesday cut a fiber optic cable used to provide Internet service to Guantanamo Navy base, Cuba, Steven Doub, a spokesman for the Defense Information Systems Agency confirmed. Read More »