The Justice Department said on April 23 that it filed charges in the U.S. against four Iranian citizens, alleging their “involvement in a cyber-enabled campaign” that aimed to compromise Federal agencies including the departments of State and Treasury, along with U.S.-based defense contractors and other firms. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reached a new milestone in its classified cloud effort by migrating more than 300,000 Department of Defense (DoD) users into the new secret environment, the agency announced via LinkedIn on April 22. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today it has tapped Hanna Kim to serve as the new director of its single sign-on service, Login.gov, with a start date of May 11. […]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has been expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to bridge the gap on creating customer experience improvements even as it faces staffing shortages and budget uncertainty, the head of the agency said this week. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is experimenting with AI to help its employees and closing in on release of a new chatbot for the agency’s outside constituencies, NSF Chief Data Officer and AI Official (CAIO) Dorothy Aronson said this week. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 earlier this year, the first update since the original was released in 2014. The framework offers detailed guidance and recommendations on a wide range of cybersecurity topics, including the role of data backups in incident response and recovery plans. MeriTalk recently sat down with Travis Rosiek, public sector chief technology officer at Rubrik, to discuss the current threat landscape and the changes in the updated framework that help agencies and organizations plan for worst-case cyberattack scenarios. […]
The Department of the Navy (DoN) announced it swore in Anne Marie Schumann on Monday as the department’s principal cyber advisor (PCA). […]
The U.S. Army is turning to industry for input on how to best merge three of its largest IT services contracts, according to a request for information (RFI) posted to SAM.gov last week. […]
The Department of Commerce’s (DoC) Economic Development Administration (EDA) made public today the details of the 31 technology hubs’ proposals for the second phase of the new Tech Hubs program – revealing a collective request of $2 billion in funding for a total of 182 projects. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said that Krystal Brumfield will be stepping down as the agency’s associate administrator for government-wide policy – a position she took up on the first day of the Biden administration in 2021 – effective on May 4. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced the opening of its new mass digitalization center in College Park, Md., which it said will help speed up the digitalization of important government documents like never before. […]
Individuals and teams from the U.S. military service branches took home top prizes in the fifth annual President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition organized by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), CISA announced on April 19. […]
The accuracy of biometric identification technologies – such as facial recognition tech – has improved over time, but a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that more could be done from a policy perspective to ensure the safe use of those kinds of technologies. […]
New research from MeriTalk and RSA Conference reveals that while 80 percent of cybersecurity decision-makers say accelerating AI adoption is critical to their organization’s resilience against evolving threats, just 31 percent say their organization is using AI for cybersecurity today. […]
The Pentagon has launched a new fully operational program that allows independent “ethical hackers” to find and analyze vulnerabilities in military contractor networks with the aim of improving the cybersecurity posture of the defense industrial base (DIB). […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling on two Federal agencies in charge of overseeing the implementation of President Biden’s 2021 cybersecurity executive order (EO) to fully complete the remaining five requirements tasked to them in the order. […]
Two and a half years ago, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) embarked on a journey to leverage robotic process automation (RPA) technologies to streamline processes, improve workforce performance, and enhance efficiency. […]
Senate legislative efforts unveiled last week are targeting the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies from markedly different angles – one to prevent against some of the worst-case instances of AI tech deployment, and the other to make sure that Federal AI development efforts leave plenty of room for private sector participation. […]
The Department of Commerce (DOC) is looking for input on the development of AI-ready open data assets and data dissemination standards, according to a new request for information (RFI) posted on April 17. […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is making progress in its efforts to shift toward further use of cloud-based systems, with 60 percent of its applications now hosted in the cloud, the agency’s top technology official said on April 18. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has artificial intelligence (AI) on the brain, and coming in first on the list of the agency’s lineup of new AI-driven projects is “Concierge AI” – a new tool that integrates data with AI. […]
From poor user satisfaction to integration challenges, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) new multi-billion dollar electronic health record (EHR) system faces several barriers that affect its implementation and efficiency, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
Federal officials on Thursday shared that the recent explosion of interest in AI technologies is also fueling better data management across the Federal government, and emphasized that you can’t have one without the other. […]
As the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) works to modernize the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), one OMB official said this week that the agency is looking to scale the FedRAMP Marketplace and create new authorization paths. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) last week established a new advisory group to guide and improve how it delivers capability-enhancing technologies into the hands of warfighters. […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has been slowly identifying areas within its enterprise that would benefit from automation and other artificial intelligence-enabled improvements, but bringing those ideas to fruition will be a challenge, the agency’s finance chief said this week. […]
Jon Rosenwasser has been chosen to serve as the new Intelligence Community Chief Financial Officer (IC CFO) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). […]
With Federal agencies beginning to implement AI across their operations, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – the main research and development agency of the Department of Defense (DoD) – is looking to speed up its efforts to fold AI innovators and contractors into the agency’s research work. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) expects to roll out its Thunderdome program to 60 sites in fiscal year (FY) 2024 – thus far the agency has deployed the zero trust program to 23 sites, an agency spokesperson confirmed. […]
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued a final ruling under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure the accessibility of web content and mobile apps for people with disabilities. […]