The purpose of this memo is to articulate the Department of the Navy expectations associated with ensuring that an acquisition is consistent with the Global Information Grid policies and architecture, as part of the Title 40/Clinger-Cohen Act confirmation process.

The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer released guidance directing the Department's migration to the use of a stronger cryptographic hash algorithm in data security authentication procedures such as CAC logon and digital signatures.

This memo provides the Department of the Navy with execution guidance in response to Department of Defense (and Federal Government) direction to migrate to the use of a stronger cryptographic hash algorithm for network security (authentication activities including CAC logon and digital signatures).

In the January-March 2011 issue of CHIPS, the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer announced the DON CIO's role in addressing information technology/cyberspace efficiency initiatives and realignment in the Department of the Navy, in response to a memo released by the Under Secretary of the Navy Dec. 3, 2010. The Under Secretary directed the DON CIO to take the lead for this endeavor.

The Under Secretary of the Navy, The Honorable Robert O. Work, signed a memo, dated Dec. 3, 2010, addressing information technology (IT)/cyberspace efficiency initiatives and realignment in the Department of the Navy. The memo underscores the challenge from Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) Robert Gates to think about the DON's approach to IT initiatives and to centralize and consolidate efforts where it makes sense. Work and Department of the Navy Secretary Ray Mabus view SECDEF's challenge as an opportunity to become efficient in the DON's IT procurement and business processes and to define a department strategy to shape the way forward in information management (IM), IT and cyberspace. The memo directs the DON Chief Information Officer to take the lead for the department for this endeavor, noting that it is a team effort and no one organization can do it alone.

The president identified transparency, participation and collaboration as the principles of an open government, which requires that government information and data be accessible to all citizens. To ensure that persons with disabilities have equal access to their government, agencies must buy and use accessible electronic and information technology, as required by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C 794d), as amended.

The purpose of this memo is to direct agencies to take stronger steps toward improving the acquisition and implementation of accessible technology, as well as make them aware of existing resources to support this effort. The General Services Administration, as part of its statutory requirement, provides technical assistance to agencies on Section 508 implementation and has created a number of tools, available at www.Section508.gov, to help agencies develop accessible requirements, test the acceptance process, and share lessons learned and best practices. In particular, the BuyAccessible Wizard available at www.buyaccessible.gov helps build compliant requirements and solicitations. The Quick Link site located at https://app.buyaccessible.gov/baw/KwikLinksMain.jsp provides pre-packaged Section 508 solicitation documents.

The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer has released updated DON DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) v2.0 Implementation Guidance. This guidance clarifies what it means to be compliant at the current time with the requirements of DoDAF v2.0, within the DON.

The civilian cyber/IT workforce senior leadership across the Department of the Navy regularly deals with new processes and procedures to accomplish the DON's IT work. Recently, the Federal Government directed several new civilian human resources (HR) initiatives to include transition from the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) back to the General Schedule (GS) system. While working new initiatives is time-consuming, this effort can be seized as an opportunity to renew and stabilize civilian workforce management within DON commands.

The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer has updated the security control mapping document originally published in November 2009.

The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer has updated the security control mapping document originally published in November 2009. DON CIO has collaborated with Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks & Information Integration) (ASD (NII)) to further refine the mapping of the Department of Defense's current security controls to the new consolidated security controls in NIST SP 800-53, revision 3. In addition to the revisions from the ASD(NII) review, DON CIO's updated security control mapping document also contains a more thorough mapping of the new NIST SP 800-53r3 security controls to those published within the legacy Director of Central Intelligence Directive (DCID) 6/3.

This memo is an update to the initial DON DODAF 2.0 Guidance, which was released March 2009. It provides implementation guidance on the DON requirements for compliance with DoDAF v2.0 and its underlying data model.

Enclosure 1 to the memo has been updated as of June 1, 2010.

Recently, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) published Special Publication (SP) 800-53, revision 3, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations, which provides a consolidated catalog of security controls. The Department of the Navy will continue using the DoDI 8500.2 as the authoritative source for security controls until otherwise specified. However, understanding the changes represented in NIST SP 800-53r3 will be essential as Department of Defense and the DON begin transitioning to the NIST set of security controls. For that reason, the DON CIO developed security control mappings using the NIST SP 800-53r3 and existing DoD and IC security control documents.

View update to security control mapping document.

The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer has developed a security control mapping document to support the transition to common security controls among the DON, the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community (IC) and the rest of the Federal Government.

The year was 1978 – the Bee Gees' "Night Fever" ruled the charts; "Mork and Mindy" first hit the airwaves; and it cost 15 cents to mail a letter, which people did a lot then because almost no one had e-mail. That year also witnessed the drafting of a Department of the Navy telecommunications policy that remains in effect today.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC) recently approved an addition to the Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal Radio Frequency Management. The new paragraph, 8.2.47, enables federal and non-federal agencies to share radio systems. Navy and Marine Corps first responders may have an opportunity to dramatically expand their geographic coverage without the prohibitive cost of building additional infrastructure. This change in governance charts a new course away from federal and non-federal agencies jealously guarding their allotted spectrum. Before this change, sharing among federal and non-federal radio systems was extremely difficult and as a result, rare.

The Department of Defense has recently published the DoD Information Systems Certification and Accreditation (C&A) Reciprocity Memo signed by the DoD Principal Accrediting Authorities - senior officials who represent the interests of the Global Information Grid Mission Areas for C&A.

This MARADMIN establishes policy and provides direction and procedures to correctly power off Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN) workstations, laptops, monitors and local printers to meet energy reduction mandates.

This memo promulgates policy defining the initial implementation and directs the use of the DON Enterprise Architecture (EA) Hierarchy. The DON EA Hierarchy provides a structure to relate the complete set of activities occurring within the DON. The hierarchy is a key component of the DON EA intended to provide a means for senior leaders to make informed decisions and relate activities and capabilities within the DON to the Joint Staff Capability Areas (JCA). The JCA serves as the Department of Defense’s common framework and lexicon for the organization of capability portfolios.

A multidisciplinary team from across the Department of the Navy developed this document, which outlines our future vision for a robust and highly interconnected enterprise networking capability in the 2016 timeframe to fully support the needs of our warfighting and warfighting-support organizations and personnel. The vision and strategy outlined in this document shall be used as a guide for ensuring alignment of our networking environment investments across the DON between now and 2016.

Note: A previous version of this document was posted to this web site. However, the posted document was an earlier version and did not reflect the most recent work performed to date. Version 1.1 of this document is the final version and should be used for all purposes.

The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer released Enterprise Mobility 2008, which describes how the Department is assessing and adopting commercially available wireless products. It also highlights the strides made in making information available within the mobile environment.

The Department of the Navy recognizes that numerous challenges are associated with acquisitions supporting “urgent need” requirements. As such, the DON has developed minimum technical spectrum requirements that must be identified, known and available to the DON’s naval forces before and during the fielding of rapidly procured Communications and Electronics (C-E) systems and devices.

This Naval message provides guidance governing the implementation of wireless local area network (WLAN) solutions using the IEEE 802.11 body of standards, commonly referred to as WiFi. The primary focus of this effort is unclassified wireless networking solutions.

The Section 508 Toolkit provides technical guidance and resources to assist DON system owners, program managers and major claimants responsible for Section 508 compliance. The toolkit contains an overview of the legislation, terms and definitions, acquisition and enforcement measures, and standard-by-standard technical and compliance guidance as well as lists of useful web-based resources.

This strategy outlines how existing architectures will be linked and related to provide a comprehensive view of the Department of Defense enterprise, while allowing for autonomy of individual architectures. The federated approach is one that accommodates the delivery of an organization as large as DoD. Upon clicking the link, select "general public documents" in the "quick links section" of the webpage, then type in the words "federation strategy."

This memo establishes Department of Defense policy for the adoption and use of digital signature as a standard business practice for all Human Resources Management (HRM) and Compensation business processes that require a signature.

This memo provides direction to incorporate standard digital signature profiles into all applications, systems or processes that use digital signatures. This implementation will lead industry toward interoperable digital signature implementations.