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  1. modernization Leaving Legacy: MITRE Pushes key Steps to Speed Agency Progress
    MITRE Corp.’s Center for Data-Driven Policy is urging Congress and the Biden administration to embark on a new campaign to speed the migration of Federal agencies away from legacy IT technologies, and to hold government’s feet to the fire on that effort by providing transparent ways to track progress.
  1. White House Keys on Tech at Second Summit for Democracy
  2. Nobody’s Perfect: Don’t let Perfection Hinder Good Data Management
  3. IRS Lacks a Clear Estimate of Uncollected Taxes, Watchdog Says
  4. Federal Banking Regulator Taps Bhardwaj to Head new Tech Office
  5. FAA Awards Verizon $2B IT Mod Contract
  6. GSA Releases New 5G Procurement Guidance for Federal Agencies

People

  1. Google HQ Former Navy CIO Weis Joins Google Public Sector
    Aaron Weis, the former Department of the Navy chief information officer (CIO), started a new job Monday as the managing director of technology at Google Public Sector (GPS).
  1. State Dept. Appoints Laura Williams Deputy CIO for Foreign Operations
  2. DARPA Official Warns Against Generative AI Impact
  3. U.S. Digital Response Names GSA Vet Hillary Hartley CEO
  4. CISA Advisory Committee Adds Inglis, Katko, Langevin
  1. U.S. Access Board Elects Fehribach, GSA’s Kale to top Posts
  2. Jeff Robinson Tapped To Be New Assistant Director at HHS
  3. FirstNet Names DISA Cyber Vet Joseph Wassel Executive Director
  4. Senate Homeland Security Committee Clears NARA Nominee

Progress

  1. IT workers workforce technology federal employees-min Senators Grouse About Intelligence Community Hiring Efficiency
    Senate Intelligence Committee members expressed frustration this week about an evident lack of efficiency among government agencies when it comes to hiring process conducted by U.S. intelligence agencies.
  1. Cloud-Native: Great Promise, Potential Risks
  2. DoD Remote Networks Remain Vulnerable, IG Says
  3. Army Keys on BYOD for Secure Data Access, Connectivity
  4. Beat Back Ransomware on March 31 – World Backup Day
  1. DoD Moving Quickly on Cloud, Zero Trust Adoption, Top Officials Say
  2. OPM Rolling out Cyber Workforce Dashboard
  3. GSA Seeks Industry Input on Login.gov Following Critical Findings
  4. Why Excelling in AI is Business Critical

Policy

  1. Senators Plan Bill to ‘Reset’ VA’s EHRM Program
    Chairman Jon Tester, D-Mont., and his Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee colleagues Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, are planning to introduce legislation in the coming days that would increase oversight of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program, order technical fixes to current problems with the system, and leave room for the agency to pursue alternative tech strategies if need be.
  1. White House Issues Marching Orders on Space Cyber
  2. Biden Expands DPA Use to Support Printed Circuit Boards
  3. Austin: DoD FY2024 Budget Request Driven by China Concerns
  4. Senate HSGAC Okays Open Source, Data Center, Digital ID Bills
  1. White House Eyes June to Launch NCS Implementation Plan
  2. Bipartisan House Bill Looks to Modernize 9-1-1 Systems
  3. Federal Data Center Security Bill Reintroduced in Senate
  4. CTA Rolls Out Principles to Curb ‘Cyber Mercenaries’