Computing Power of Apollo 11 & The Tech Behind It
WEBFifty 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 the ...
ATO to cATO Cybersecurity Transition in The Federal Government
WEBA 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 ...
What is NSFNET: How Tech Sparked Scientific Research - FedTech
WEBThe National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET), developed to help U.S. research scientists collaborate, was a crucial link between ARPANET and the commercial networks that served as the early public internet’s foundation. Along the way, NSFNET served as a demonstration for the technical underpinnings of modern networks — routers and ...
How IBM 7094 Gave NASA Computing Superiority in the 1960s
WEBThe 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 ...
EDR vs. MDR: What Are Managed and Endpoint Detection and …
WEBEDR vs. MDR: The Key Differences. There are key differences between EDR and MDR. “EDR focuses on detection and containing attacker at the endpoint, also known as host,” Mandiant notes. “This narrow focus is a subset of Managed Detection & Response (MDR) which detects and stops attackers across all threat vectors including endpoint ...
DEC’s VAX Superminicomputer Became a Mainstay in Federal …
WEBWith 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 ...
Review: Dell’s OptiPlex 7050 Was Designed with Feds in Mind
WEBIt’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.
How COBOL Became the Early Backbone of Federal Computing
WEB00:00. When the Government Accountability Office reported in 2016 on legacy federal IT systems, of the 10 oldest systems it highlighted, three of them use COBOL, the better-known acronym for the programming language Common Business-Oriented Language. Among the systems that still use COBOL are a Department of Veterans Affairs system that ...
How DOD Can Look Beyond SIPRNet and NIPRNet - Technology …
WEBThe 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 ...
What is CSfC: How CSfC Components Can Boost Network Security …
WEBThe CSfC program, which got off the ground in 2016, certifies commercial network solutions that agencies can use to create secure, encrypted networks. The program is designed to enable commercial products for use in layered solutions protecting classified National Security Systems (NSS) data. The goal, the NSA says, is to give agencies “the ...