Navy Selects Contracting Firms for C4I Work at San Diego Center

The U.S. Navy has awarded multiple award contracts, each with one base year and four one-year options, to contracting firms for work in command, control, communications, computers and intelligence at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific in San Diego.

Awardees include:

BAE Contracted to Design and Integrate Navy C4I Communication Systems

The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems’ technology solutions and services business a $17,999,247 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to support shipboard C4I electronic communication systems.

The contract puts BAE to work in St. Inigoes, Md. on designing, integrating, testing, installing and certifying shipboard C4I electronic communication systems. The project is expected to be complete by Sept. 2016.

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent…

Navy Develops New Strategies to Meet Rapidly Evolving Cyber Threat

The Defense Department’s DoD 5000 acquisition model does not acknowledge the fast-evolving nature of cyber threat, so the Navy is now developing new strategies to better counter Internet attacks, according to an official.

“DoD 5000 doesn’t work for cyber defense,” said Kevin McNally, program manager for information…

Navy to Launch Regional Components to Support Navy Fleet Cyber Command

The Navy is working to launch initial operations at four new regional network operation security components that will support the Navy Fleet Cyber Command and help protect naval computer networks, according to a senior Navy official.

Along with combining network operations with computer network defense, the commands…

Navy Seeks to Implement Faster Acquisition Strategy to Fight Cyber Threats

The Navy plans to strengthen its network security systems and accelerate its acquisitions process to respond to the ever-evolving threat of cyberwarfare, according to a SPAWAR program manager.

Kevin McNally outlined the department’s plans at a luncheon Tuesday hosted by the San Diego chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association.

According…

Naval Academy Adds Cybersecurity to Curriculum

The U.S. Naval Academy is changing its core curriculum for the first time in about a decade by adding two cybersecurity courses to meet the growing demands of educating a cybersecurity workforce, The Associated Press reported.

Andrew Phillips, the academic dean and provost, told AP the school’s role has been to develop courses that would…

Robert Carey: Cyber is a Team Sport

Cybersecurity is a team effort, according to Department of Navy CIO Robert Carey, who will shortly leave to take over cybersecurity for the Navy.

The Navy, as all branches of DoD, relies heavily upon the interaction between Navy personnel, civilians, contractors and academia, Carey writes in his blog.

“As I step closer to the operational component of the…

Navy Gets New Cyber Guidelines

The Department of the Navy has released new cybersecurity guidelines which assigns compliance responsibilities and defines cyber workforce management.

The new directive, sent throughout the Navy last month, is designed “to establish policy and assign responsibilities for the administration of the Department of the Navy (DON) Cybersecurity (CS)/Information Assurance Workforce (IAWF) Management Oversight and Compliance Program,” according to…

Navy Looks to Secure NextGen Cyber Warriors Through NROTC Scholarships

The U.S. Navy is looking to enhance its current cybersecurity capabilities by granting scholarships to the top twenty percent of contestants competing in the U.S. Cyber Challenge, a cyber war game sponsored by the SANS Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The goal of the war game is to connect participants with training and mentoring opportunities…

Robert Carey: ‘In Today’s Age, You are a Cyber Warrior’

Robert Carey is a trailblazer among CIOs, pioneering the use of a public blog to include the public in his discussions surrounding cybersecurity for the Navy.

ExecutiveGov recently interviewed Carey on his use of Web 2.0 technologies and some cybersecurity initiatives in the Navy.

Carey discussed the Navy’s Cyber Security Education Mission, saying, “it’s really important to realize that when…