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Starting December 2, 2009, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) will be putting on a two-day cyberspace conference. Titled " Cyberspace at the Cross Roads: The Intersection of Cyber, National and Economic Security ", speakers, panelists and attendees will further the dialogue between government and the private sector on key policy and technology barriers currently limiting our ability to combat the threat effectively. This program focuses on furthering the understanding of the cyber security operating environment, helping to focus the community on current cyber policy and technology initiatives, and highlighting the long term vision for improving our cyber security posture. On Thursday, December 3rd, from 10:30a-12:n EST, I'm honored to be participating in a panel that asks the question "How do we improve cyber security at the edge?". This session will address ideas and innovations for extending cyber security beyond the classic D...

L ast month as part of the Navy’s annual Trident Warrior exercise, Dataline, LLC successfully demonstrated that a standard shipboard communications infrastructure could be used to manage a commercial cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform. Presented during the fall Trident Warrior ’10 (TW ’10) lab period, Dataline’s Secure Cloud Computing experiment used a simulated shipboard infrastructure to demonstrate secure access to selected collaboration and geospatial information service (GIS) applications. The purpose was to validate the ability of a commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform to support Department of the Navy (DON) requirements for global connectivity, server failover and application access. For this portion of the exercise, Dataline used the Amazon EC2 IaaS platform. The experiment also used SecureParser® as part of the Unisys Stealth architecture to provide “data-in-motion” security. Applications used included Oracle Beehive , ERDAS Apollo a...

As part of a continuing Government Cloud computing education program, Dataline, LLC has released a Government Cloud Computing Value Survey . This online resource has been designed as an aid to help Federal agencies explore the value of cloud computing. Through a 15 minute interactive session, this survey will: Provide a high level cloud computing tutorial; Explain the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative; Give an overview of Apps.gov cloud computing solutions; and Present possible cloud computing business value statements. Referencing a recent Booz Allen Hamilton cloud computing economic analysis, the survey includes a easy-to-use series of questions designed to efficiently work through some of the key cloud computing value statements. A Cloud Computing Cost/Benefit Ratio calculator is also included. Calculator results provide only a representative example of the economic business case for cloud computing. The results should not be used for actual budget planning. The model used is deri...

Henry Sienkiewcz, DISA Computer Services Technical Director, credits the cloud computing "hyper-standardized" environment for the improvement they have been able to deliver through their cloud computing initiative. During remarks at this week's Federal Executive Forum taping, he specified faster service delivery, higher quality, lower cost and increased security as important cloud computing benefits. Joining him on the program was: Robert Carey - Navy Chief Information Officer; and Mike Krieger- Army Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of the Army The panel discussed the progress of Cloud Computing in the Federal Government , best practices including the DISA RACE program, challenges still ahead, lessons learned, and the vision for the future. The complete show will be webcast on November 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm. ( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - KLJ )

This week's Federal Executive Forum taping highlighted collaboration between DISA and the Army on the service's transition to cloud computing. Army Deputy Chief Information Officer Mike Krieger called it a partnership, important to the support of Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) activities. Joining him on the program was: Robert Carey - Navy Chief Information Officer; and Henry Sienkiewcz- Technical Program Director, Computer Services, Defense Information Systems Agency The panel discussed the progress of Cloud Computing in the Federal Government , best practices including the DISA RACE program, challenges still ahead, lessons learned, and the vision for the future. The complete show will be webcast on November 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm. ( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - KLJ )

During this week's Federal Executive Forum taping, Navy CIO Robert Carey discussed his views on cloud computing. Stating that the NGEN and CANES (Navy Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services) programs will both leverage cloud computing, he also describes a future of "grey clouds" on each ship. Joining him on the program was: Mike Krieger- Army Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of the Army Henry Sienkiewcz- Technical Program Director, Computer Services, Defense Information Systems Agency The panel discussed the progress of Cloud Computing in the Federal Government , best practices including the DISA RACE program, challenges still ahead, lessons learned, and the vision for the future. The complete show will be webcast on November 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm. ( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - KLJ )