Senate Bill Aims to Funnel Billions More to AI, Quantum R&D Efforts
A bill introduced in the Senate this week aims to steer tens of billions of new funding toward civilian Federal government research and development efforts involving “industries of the future” including artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information science (QIS).
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‘Hack the Army’ Effort Finds More Than 145 Security Vulnerabilities
The latest “Hack the Army” effort has awarded $275,000 in prizes and identified more than 145 security vulnerabilities.
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House Members Launch Caucus Aimed at Impact of AI, Automation
Reps. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., and Bryan Steil, R-Wis., on Jan. 15 officially launched the Congressional Future of Work Caucus, which they said will focus on “challenges and opportunities prevalent in the U.S. economy,” including those posed by automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
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Cyber Caucus Co-Chair Applauds NSA Disclosure of Microsoft Vulnerability
Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., co-chair of the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus, applauded the Federal government’s handling earlier this week of public disclosure by the intelligence community of serious vulnerabilities it found in Microsoft’s Windows 10 and Service 2016 products, for which the company released patches.
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NIST Publishes Privacy Risk Management Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the definitive version of its privacy risk management framework, after seeking comment on a draft version of the framework last year.
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Interior Department Taps CenturyLink for $1.6 Billion EIS Deal
The Department of the Interior has selected CenturyLink for a task order to provide network services and IT modernization solutions through the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program.
Juggling the Clouds
While 81 percent of Federal IT decisions makers say their agency already uses multiple cloud platforms, the majority also say managing a multi-cloud environment will be one of their agency’s top challenges over the next five years. What steps should agencies take to better prepare for their multi-cloud future?
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House Hearing Shows Bipartisan Support for Facial Recognition Rules
House Oversight Committee members from both sides of the aisle expressed support at a Jan. 15 hearing for imposing some level of Federal regulation on the use of facial recognition technologies.
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Federal CIO Says Health Agencies “Set an Example” on Data Privacy
Health-focused government agencies are in a good position to lead implementation of Federal Data Strategy initiatives – such as improving data protection – because of their ongoing investments aimed at that goal, Federal CIO Suzette Kent said Jan. 15 at AFCEA Bethesda Health IT Summit.
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VA Aims to Migrate Half of Portfolio to Cloud by 2024
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) CIO James Gfrerer said today that the agency is “in place to move about half of our portfolio … into our enterprise cloud by 2024.”
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HHS CIO: Blockchain To Yield Millions in Savings
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) CIO Jose Arrieta said Accelerate will be able to save the department “somewhere around $33 to $40 million” over the next five years.
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In the Balance: Women Who Make Federal IT Work With Real Life
What’s the recipe for success in navigating both a successful IT career and an equally fulfilling “real” life outside of the profession?
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Charting the Course to a Smarter 2020 in Fed IT Policy
Federal policymakers have spent an exceptionally busy couple of years staking out new rules – think Federal Data Strategy, Cloud Smart, TIC 3.0, the National AI Initiative, among others – that will lead the government-wide IT enterprise forward into the next decade.
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GSA CIO Provides Lessons in Cloud Transformation
In establishing an agency’s cloud transformation, the General Services Administration (GSA) can provide lessons in setting up the transition.
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CIGIE Announces Website to Track IG Job Vacancies
The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) announced today the release of a new website that will track which Inspector General (IG) positions are currently vacant and for how long they have been vacant.
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New CISA Lead Bryan Ware Shares Incoming Priorities
The recently promoted Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Bryan Ware reflected on his first week and shared his top priorities for the agency at the Data Cloud Summit on Jan. 14.
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HUD Missing Mark on Records Management, Privacy, IG Says
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is missing the mark on records management and privacy requirements to the tune of more than one billion records that contain personally identifiable information (PII), the agency’s Inspector General (IG) said in a recent report.
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House Panel Passes Bill to Strengthen Federal Reserve’s Cybersecurity Efforts
The House Committee on Financial Services passed H.R. 4458, The Cybersecurity and Financial System Resilience Act of 2019, via voice vote on Jan. 13.
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DoE Plans to Invest Up to $625M in Quantum Research Centers
The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Science announced its plan to invest up to $625 million in establishing National Quantum Information Science Research Centers in accordance with the National Quantum Initiative Act, according to a Jan. 10 funding opportunity announcement.
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Bipartisan Lawmakers Applaud New Spectrum Rules
A group of bipartisan legislators led by Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., sent a letter on Jan. 10 to Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai to thank him for his December 2019 vote to “modernize the 5.9 GHz band.”
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USDA, HUD, Energy Are First Agencies to Pay Back TMF
The Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Energy are the first three agencies to begin paying back Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) grants, representatives from each agency confirmed to MeriTalk.