The Department of Defense (DoD) plans to establish a new joint interagency task force to confront the growing threats of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — more commonly known as drones. […]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr on July 2 unveiled his Build America Agenda that aims to have the agency pursue action on a number of fronts to pave the way for service providers to build out more fiber-based networks that provide high-speed broadband services. […]
With a March presidential executive order putting some breathing room between the Federal government and states on cybersecurity protections – and state and local governments hoping for a second go-round of funding from Congress under the 2021 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) – we checked in with Gary Barlet, Illumio’s public sector chief technology officer, for his read on the new landscape. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is not ensuring the IT systems it purchases meet accessibility standards required by law, according to a new report from the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG). […]
The U.S. Space Force has delayed the inaugural launch of its next-generation missile warning satellites in medium-Earth orbit (MEO) from late 2026 to spring 2027, citing supply chain delays and technical hurdles, a senior official confirmed this week. […]
President Donald Trump has nominated Ryan Cote to become the assistant secretary for information and technology and chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the White House announced on Tuesday. […]
The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) will stop processing and distributing data by the end of July from a decades-old military weather satellite program that has provided crucial environmental intelligence, a spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
Now that the Senate has pushed its version of reconciliation funding over the finish line amid a blizzard of changes to the bill, here’s a look at a few workforce and tech items that either failed to make the final version of the legislation, or were beaten back on the funding front during the process. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on July 1 announced plans to modernize its FedScope platform which serves as a resource for accessing data about the Federal workforce, and released some new – though now out of date compared to other sources – data on the size and composition of the Federal workforce as of March 2025. […]
The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced coordinated, nationwide actions on Monday to disrupt the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) government’s schemes that placed North Korean individuals in remote IT jobs for U.S. companies under false identities. […]
The future of one of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) flagship satellite constellations is in limbo as the Department of Defense (DoD) weighs whether to replace the planned Tranche 3 Transport Layer with commercial satellite communications solutions. […]
Two key Trump administration nominations for national cyber director (NCD) and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) advanced with ease out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee earlier this week and are now headed to the full Senate for further consideration. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is canceling two major tech-related solicitations – the FirstSource III and PACTS III contract vehicles for IT support and professional services. […]
The U.S. Senate voted early Tuesday morning to drop from its reconciliation legislation a controversial 10-year moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence tech after the proposed ban met significant bipartisan pushback. […]
The Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) component has appointed Ross Graber chief information security officer (CISO), according to an internal agency announcement viewed by MeriTalk. […]
The U.S. Army has announced new leadership at its Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) – an office that delivers critical technologies to the Army to “outpace the threat.” […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) component has appointed Casie Antalis to serve as the program director of its Joint Cyber Coordination Group, an agency spokesperson told MeriTalk. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a warning today about possible cyberattacks on vulnerable U.S. networks and critical infrastructure coming from Iranian state actors following the June 21 bombings of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States. […]
The U.S. Cyber Command has appointed Patrick Ware as its new executive director – which is the organization’s highest-ranking civilian position and the number three position overall in its command structure. […]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has tapped Aram Moghaddassi to become its new chief information officer (CIO) after Scott Coulter stepped down from the role. […]
Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House aims to push Federal agencies to adopt electronic tools that simplify how Americans access help from the government. […]
If you knew what we know – but just can’t quite say out loud yet – then you’d hit the go-button today to join us at Tech Tonic on July 17 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Morton’s the Steakhouse in Washington, D.C. […]
The Supreme Court on June 27 issued a 6-3 ruling that upholds the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Universal Service Fund (USF). […]
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that key NASA systems did not fully implement selected cybersecurity risk management activities – potentially exposing them to malicious cyber activities. […]
The Defense Department’s (DoD) undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment has issued a set of rules to implement a policy announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in May that limits the agency’s use of IT consulting contracts in order to reduce reliance on outside firms and bolster the department’s in-house expertise. […]
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) is sounding the alarm on drones and non-traditional intelligence tactics as the most urgent – and most overlooked – threats to the U.S. intelligence community. […]
Josh Gruenbaum, who heads the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), has sent off a fresh round of letters seeking better pricing terms from Federal contractors – this time a list of six strategy consulting firms that GSA defines as “traditional strategy consulting firms.” […]
Morgan Adamski, who has been executive director at U.S. Cyber Command since June 2024, said today she is leaving the organization to embark on a “new adventure.” […]
President Donald Trump vowed today to move ahead with executive orders freezing some Federal funding following a Supreme Court decision released today that curtails lower courts’ power to block actions taken via executive order. […]
Reps. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., and Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., reintroduced the Federal Improvement in Technology (FIT) Procurement Act on Wednesday in an effort to streamline the Federal procurement process for agencies and their contractors. […]