Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich.,?chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, introduced bipartisan legislation today to increase transparency and oversight of Federal telework policies. […]

While practical employment of quantum computing remains out of reach for the time being, a National Security Agency (NSA) said this week that industry and government must work closely together to lay the groundwork for quantum capabilities to be easily adopted when the time comes for widescale deployment. […]

The technical lead for the Pentagon’s new Task Force Lima said this week that his team is currently working across the Defense Department (DoD) on generative AI tech to help the services “unlock access” to troves of knowledge.   […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) released findings late Tuesday following its independent review of the summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion that attributed the success of the China-based hack to “a cascade of security failures at Microsoft” and an “inadequate” security culture at the company. […]

Matt House, who runs the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, previewed today that his office is working on an effort to better explain how the CDM program supports the Federal government’s push toward zero trust security architectures, and specifically the Zero Trust Maturity Model (ZTMM) that CISA last updated in April 2023. […]

The U.S. Air Force is turning to the private sector for input on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies that could be integrated into its command-and-control (C2) modernization efforts. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a new dedicated High-Risk Communities webpage today with a range of cybersecurity resources for civil society organizations and other high-risk communities. […]

The United States and the United Kingdom signed a landmark agreement on Monday to collaborate on testing artificial intelligence models, becoming the first two countries to formally work together on AI safety. […]

The head of the State Department’s IT and cybersecurity efforts said today that it is her top priority to “improve user experience while making cybersecurity more robust.” […]

The Defense Department, General Services Administration, and NASA have issued a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to add the framework for a new FAR part 40 covering information security and supply chain security. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) announced on Monday that a new electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) product, provided by Atom Power, has achieved authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). […]

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) said it’s working on a list of longstanding IT management problems previously flagged by the agency’s inspector general, and it estimates taking action on most of those by Aug. 30 of this year. […]

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has published a set of revisions to its “Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity” – the first since 1997. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) stood up a new civilian-facing cyber policy office on March 20, the department announced last Friday. […]

Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), and Mitt Romney, R-Utah, ranking member of the HSGAC Subcommittee on Spending Oversight, introduced a new bill on March 28 to help strengthen oversight of Federal spending and reduce fraud. […]

Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and John Cornyn, R-Texas., have introduced new legislation that would hold Federal agencies and officials more accountable for retaining records of their electronic communications. […]

A group of 21 tax officials from 18 states is urging the Department of Treasury (DOT) to disband the IRS’ new Direct File pilot program, citing potential tax filing problems they said could arise from confusion on the part of taxpayers. […]

The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) has announced $15 million in funding to establish six university-based electric power cybersecurity centers that will foster collaboration across the energy sector to address gaps in energy security research and provide cybersecurity education programs. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) on Thursday announced its first ever strategy to enhance cybersecurity across the defense industrial base (DIB). […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) – released its draft 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment.   […]

The State Department announced on March 27 that it’s offering up to $10 million in reward money for information about individuals linked to the ALPHV BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service group. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report pushing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to update its New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) to better a job at explaining self-driving vehicle technologies. […]

2024 was the first year that artificial intelligence (AI) appeared on the National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ (NASCIO) list of top priorities for state CIOs. Also for the first time ever, digital government services and cybersecurity tied for the top priority spot. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is currently developing a new cloud service management platform to ease barriers and burdens to services, a top cloud expert at the agency said on Wednesday. […]

The Department of Interior (DoI) released its Information Management and Technology (IMT) Strategic Plan for 2024-2029 back in January, but Chief Information Officer (CIO) Darren Ash said on March 28 that the plan is not meant to be “shelfware” and will be adjusted annually as needed. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is touting its most recent Electronic Health Records Modernization (EHRM) program rollout at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (Lovell FHCC) near Chicago as its “most successful deployment” yet. […]

Lee Ann Crochunis has been named deputy director for the Office of Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). […]

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Reps. Donald Beyer, D-Va., and Gerry Connolly, D-Va., joined MITRE this week at the grand opening of the company’s AI Assurance and Discovery Lab.  […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) released a new roadmap today outlining how the program will evolve in the next 18 months, focusing on key goals such as customer experience (CX) and cybersecurity leadership. […]

The U.S. Navy has grown the scope of an ongoing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) pilot program and is putting the pilot through the rigors of testing that one Navy tech executive likened to “throwing rocks” at the program. […]