The Biden administration has launched a beta version of its new student loan repayment plan application, giving borrowers an early shot at signing up for the program at studentaid.gov. […]

Employees at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will be required to work some days in the office starting next month. […]

Stephan Streiffer, the current interim director at the Stanford University-based SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will serve as the next director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee starting in October, according to an announcement released on Thursday. […]

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program has renewed funding for seven academic institutions, providing more than $24 million over the next four years to support the development of a robust and resilient cybersecurity workforce. […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are responding to a data breach in one of their contractor’s software that is affecting over 600,000 Medicare beneficiaries. […]

The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gilbert Cisneros will be stepping down from his role at the Department of Defense (DoD) in early September. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the latest version of its Risk and Vulnerability Assessments (RVA) report, which found that threat actors had the most attack success through “common methods” such as phishing techniques in fiscal year (FY) 2022. […]

The Biden-Harris administration’s newly released cybersecurity workforce strategy zeros in on the people part of the cyberspace ecosystem, identifying opportunities to build out the cyber workforce ecosystem and better educate Americans on landing cyber jobs.    […]

Lawmakers introduced a bipartisan, bicameral bill on Friday that would create a Federal AI research infrastructure to give researchers and students access to the data and tools needed to create trustworthy AI. […]

The Biden-Harris administration unveiled its long-awaited National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES) today, securing commitments from 37 stakeholders – like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) – to increase the number of Americans in “good-paying, middle-class” cyber jobs.  […]

The U.S. Army established a new program management office within its Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) to support its expanding cyber, information warfare, and tactical space missions. […]

A bipartisan measure has been introduced in the House that would block Federal agencies from denying a potential government employee with current or past marijuana use from obtaining employment with the Federal government. […]

A bipartisan group of 14 senators is asking the State Department for more information on the recent China-based cyberattack that exposed vital cloud servers and sensitive electronic communications of senior officials at the agency. […]

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted on July 27 to approve the ORBITS Act of 2023, and the American Cybersecurity Literacy Act. […]

MeriTalk sat down with Frank Reyes, cloud solutions leader at Maximus, to discuss the DoD’s cloud strategy, the future of cloud computing across the DoD, and how industry can partner with the DoD to support cloud integration and achieve mission success. […]

In this episode of MeriTalking, MeriTalk’s Gail Emery sits down with Brandon Iske, a principal solutions architect at Okta, and Bill Wells, a senior solutions architect at Amazon Web Services, to discuss zero trust progress and challenges, why identity is the foundation of zero trust, and how Okta and AWS work together to help agencies achieve zero trust. […]

While the Federal government and large corporations may dominate headlines about cyberattacks and disruptive system outages, state and local governments are far from immune to system failures – and catastrophic downtime that affects the public’s trust in government. On today’s episode of MeriTalking, MeriTalk’s Gail Emery is joined by Jim Richberg, the public sector chief […]

The White House said that President Biden will sign an executive order (EO) on Friday to prioritize America’s policy of “invent it here, make it here,” directing Federal agencies to support the American production of innovative technologies. […]

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., demanded that the Department of Justice (DoJ) and two civil regulators open separate probes into Microsoft’s cybersecurity practices after a high-level hack targeting the highest ranks of President Biden’s cabinet. […]

After two weeks of combing through nearly 1,000 amendments, the Senate late on Thursday night finally passed its version of the behemoth fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – and it’s packed with Federal tech and cybersecurity provisions. […]

The House this week approved by voice vote the Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains Act – a bipartisan bill that would strengthen Federal efforts to expand domestic manufacturing of semiconductor chips. […]

The State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs has awarded two recompete task orders totaling $320 million to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to help support visa applications and processing in South America. […]

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talked about election security and cybersecurity threats to the U.S., among other priority issues, at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 26 aimed at DHS oversight.  […]

Federal agency officials made it clear that the concept of “health IT alignment” is their number one priority in the IT sphere during a July 25 webinar organized by Federal News Network. titled Federal Executive Forum Healthcare IT in Government hosted by Federal News Network on July 25. Ryan Dempsey Argentieri, deputy director of the […]

A bipartisan bill to establish an Office of Policy Development and Cybersecurity at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) passed the House on a voice vote this week. […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Defense and Homeland Security appropriations bills, passing all twelve appropriation bills out of the committee before Congress goes on its August break starting tomorrow. […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that if his colleagues “continue embracing bipartisanship, we will finish our work on the NDAA before the start of the August state work period” – which begins tomorrow. […]

Brig Gen. AnnMarie Anthony has been chosen to lead the Department of Defense’s (DoD) new office aimed at enhancing the U.S.’ strategic advantages in electromagnetic spectrum. […]

Members of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation blasted the Department of Defense (DoD) on Wednesday over its decision to abandon the MyTravel system – a $374 million replacement to modernize the agency’s outdated Defense Travel System (DTS). […]

As AI technologies continue to advance at a rapid pace, experts with the technology told members of Congress on July 25 that the United States needs a single regulatory agency that can invest heavily in AI research and put proper safeguards in place. […]