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 ...
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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. The Smithsonian's Digitization Program Office creates 3D scans of historical and scientific artifacts so that scientists, citizens ...
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 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 agencies access to a ...
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.
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How IBM 7094 Gave NASA Computing Superiority in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Air Force Launches Modernized IT Help Desk with ServiceNow
Now, the Air Force is starting to see the fruits of its efforts. One of the first official projects that the service has launched under EITaaS is a modernized IT help desk, which it has launched with ServiceNow. As Federal News Network reports, the help desk solution is “one of several efforts underway, including next generational networking ...
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About Us. FedTech explores technology issues and successes that federal IT leaders and managers face when they’re evaluating and implementing a solution.FedTech is published by CDW which is headquartered in Vernon Hills, Ill.. CDW is a leading multibrand technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom and ...