(((I wonder who on earth these characters are. Also, what kind of cool medals and battle-patches do you get for beating up a Storm Worm?)))
(((I guess I could work really hard and figure that out, or else I could just hang out in the ol' airport here until THREAT
LEVEL or DANGER ROOM see fit to enlighten me.)))
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20081104_8158.php
Link: NextGov - Pentagon awards IT managers for security, integration.
The Pentagon on Friday recognized three individuals and five teams for efforts to enhance efficiency and information delivery through technology projects.
The winners of the Defense Department Chief Information Officers Awards included the Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations, which won first place in the team category for reducing penetrations of the Global Information Grid by 30 percent despite a 53 percent per increase in intrusion attempts. (((What's the "global information grid," one wonders idly.)))
The first-place winner in the individual category was Army Lt. Col. Anthony Evans, product manager for the Battle Command Service Support System. The Pentagon recognized him for his work in integrating information from multiple sources into the map-focused Army logistics command-and-control system.
The award citation for JTF-GNO offered rare insight into the work performed by the secretive organization, which is part of the U.S. Strategic Command, (((oh brother))) to protect civilian and military information systems worldwide. The JTF-GNO team led the response from industry, government and law enforcement to fight the Storm Worm, the largest peer-to-peer botnet attack to strike Europe and the United States....
