Innovation for advantage, one of the pillars of DOD’s digital modernization strategy, is the rationale for deployment of cloud, cyber and other improvements that support warfighters. But how do widely available, standards-based technologies fit within the innovation framework? How do DOD leaders approach a modernization effort so they adhere to the overall strategy and still get basic functions accomplished cost effectively and with the...

CMMC is fraught with uncertainties in today’s environment, but one thing is still sure: CMMC preparations take a lot longer than defense suppliers think. Although timelines have been adjusted somewhat due to the COVID-19 pandemic, giving defense contractors a little more time to become CMMC compliant, recent DOD updates regarding CMMC indicate that the first pilot contract RFPs including CMMC requirements are expected in Q1FY21. For thos...

Protecting digital communication and collaboration is critical to our military and intelligence services in driving mission success. Our ability to secure the local and remote systems we rely on to share and operationalize intelligence to and from even the most remote location is vital to our national security and protecting our people in the field. Unfortunately, our adversaries know this and are dedicated to infiltrating, exfiltrating, and...

Leading up to AFCEA’s TechNet Augusta event, SIGNAL Media is hosting three/four webinars featuring experts from within the Army Cyber Center of Excellence and a member from the Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T). Your registration will provide you access to attend each webinar live, or to view the webinars on demand post-broadcast and to interact with the sponsors. Webinar Dates: October 20,...

The Department of Defense (DoD) has been working to implement changes designed to increase the protection of controlled unclassified information (CUI) throughout the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) supply chain. Effective November 30, the interim Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) rule will officially implement the¬ Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) requirement over the next five years. * The DFARS int...

Threat actors continue to develop better, more advanced tactics to encrypt your organization’s data for ransom, destroying backups along the way to ensure their payday. There are many tools, capabilities and techniques to build resilience to counter these threats, but there are few standards to help. How do you know what to do and whether it will actually protect you? Please join Jim Clancy—SVP, Global Data Protection Sales and Jim...

Leading up to AFCEA’s TechNet Augusta event, SIGNAL Media is hosting three/four webinars featuring experts from within the Army Cyber Center of Excellence and a member from the Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T). Your registration will provide you access to attend each webinar live, or to view the webinars on demand post-broadcast and to interact with the sponsors. Webinar Dates: October 20,...

U.S. DoD must retool its management of network, communications, and spectrum to maintain tactical overmatch in the cyber warfighting domain. Gaps in understanding tactical network architecture, network status, cyber posture, and the spectrum/EW environment can hamper a commander’s ability to make fully informed decisions at the tactical edge. Programs advancing concepts such as Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and Cyber Situa...

RGB Spectrum, a leader in government, military command and training programs, will host a webinar on maximizing situational awareness for C4ISR and command centers. Choosing the right approach to integrating a growing array of information sources is critical to making better decisions, faster. In this webinar we will discuss recent advancements in video distribution and control that maximize situational awareness. New developments in AV-over-I...

Leading up AFCEA’s TechNet Cyber event, SIGNAL Media is hosting four webinars featuring experts from within DISA. The webinar subjects include new leadership, emerging technology, DISA's Small Business Office and Procurement Service Directorate and virtual recruiting. These webinars will keep the TechNet Cyber conversation going leading into the December event. One registration will provide you with notification of webinar broadcast date...