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• Fill your phone with apps, widgets, and notifications to receive updates from local and state emergency
agencies including evacuation orders. Remember that some notifications are opt-in, so check to make sure
you are set to receive any data disseminated for your local area. FEMA recommends starting by opting into
its basic alerts by texting the following to 43362: Text “PREPARE” for tips on being prepared, “SHELTER”
and a zip code after a disaster to find local shelter options, and “LIST” to get more options
• Have alternatives for your usual communication channels in the event of widespread power or cellular
outages
• Keep emergency cash secured in a safe and accessible location in the event power interruptions interfere
with your electronic banking capabilities
For the complete story, you can read the WaPo article, The best tech to have in a natural disaster

Introducing Namecoach

Centuries ago, teacher and philosopher Kong Fuzi (aka Confucius) noted that “The beginning
of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” To make sure we’re all able to call things, and
more specifically people, by their proper name, MIL is introducing the use of Namecoach as a
way to learn the correct pronunciation of unfamiliar names.
According to InsightGlobal’s Brita Long, “A name is central to someone’s identity. Names can
connect us to our family, our ethnicity, our culture, our self-image, and sometimes, even our
choices. When you correctly say someone’s name, you respect their identity. In the workplace, taking the time to
learn a colleague’s name goes beyond respect—it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).”
To learn more, visit Namecoach. And to learn how to add Namecoach to your electronic communications/
Outlook signature, see IT-202b Name Coach Email Signature Instructions.docx.
Read the full text of the InsightGlobal article What’s in a Name? The Importance of Getting Names Right at Work
by visiting the InsightGlobal blog.

contract wins
Cyber Warfare Engineering Win!

MIL was recently awarded a $225M contract to provide matter expertise to other elements of NAWCAD, NAVAIR
engineering, technical, and program management services for Program Offices, foreign partners, and other DoD agencies
the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) to support all phases of acquisition programs, operational
Digital Analytics Infrastructure and Technology Advancement field demonstrations, prototyping, experiments, operational
(DAiTA) Group. The DAiTA Group serves as NAVAIR’s assessments, test and evaluation, extended user evaluations,
competency and authoritative source to rapidly research, fleet/force deployments, and sustainment. We are proud of
develop, mature, procure, integrate, test, evaluate, train, this major win and we are excited to continue our partnership
support, and sustain cyber resilient and full spectrum cyber with CWD. Congratulations to the entire team for all your
warfighting capabilities for platforms, weapons, sensors, hard work in securing this critical effort.
communications and networks, computing systems, mission
systems, support equipment, logistics and maintenance
MIL’s latest Library of
systems, and ashore and afloat enterprise systems. The
Cyber Warfare Department (CWD), a department within
the DAiTA Group, in partnership and coordination with Congress award
other DAiTA Group activities provides a broad array of cyber
MIL is pleased to announce the award of a new Library of
related capabilities including, but not limited to, research,
Congress contract to install the network cabling needed to
development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) of cyber warfare
operate 476 Wireless Access Points across the Capitol Hill
development and test tool sets, multi-level security solutions,
Complex. The Library’s selection of MIL to support this
offensive and defensive tools and capabilities, support of
project confirms our team’s unique ability to execute the
Autonomous Defensive Cyber Operations (ADCO), Cyber
work scope. Our Library support team’s familiarity with the
Incident Response Team (CIRT), cyber warfare engineering,
layout of all of the Capitol Hill facilities and sensitivity to the
systems network and data link engineering, cyber intelligence
challenges of installing products in a historical and highly
and communications engineering and analysis, cyber risk
visited cultural institution such as the Library, made the MIL
assessments, CYBERSAFE/Airworthiness, vulnerability
team the best and lowest risk choice.
analysis, red team/blue team testing, systems security
engineering, anti-tamper, and cyber related training. Congratulations to the members of the ITS Sector who
Additionally, the DAiTA Group provides cyber warfare subject contributed to this latest award.
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