Both vendors and Federal officials said today they want more visibility into the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) process, which certifies the security of cloud technologies for Federal government use and is operated by the General Services Administration (GSA). […]
Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., long one of the prime movers in Congress on Federal IT modernization issues, said today he plans to run to become the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Reform Committee next year when the 118th Congress convenes. […]
Brian Conrad, acting director of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), explained at an FCW event today how ongoing improvement efforts are charting a path for the program over the next five to ten years. […]
Because adversaries like China and Russia increasingly have their hands in the information communication technology arena – whether directly or through subsidiaries – one of the keys to improving cybersecurity in an expanding threat landscape involves strong risk management, in addition to prevention, Federal experts said this week. […]
Randy Resnick, Director of the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office within the Defense Department’s (DoD) CIO office, laid out the broad strokes of DoD’s zero trust security plans during a presentation on August 23 at the 930GOV event organized by Digital Government Institute. […]
Modernizing the military and intelligence community’s top-secret IT network, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS), is a top priority for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), said the agency’s chief information officer (CIO). […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is in talks with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) about an extension of the December 2022 deadline for government agencies to transition fully to electronic records as directed by the M-19-21 directive issued by NARA in 2019. […]
Kurt DelBene, chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), said today that his agency is not spending enough on cybersecurity, and would benefit from being able to pay higher salaries in order to recruit and retain cyber experts. […]
The Defense Department (DoD) has awarded the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) a contract that could be worth up to $10.6 billion from the U.S. Navy to perform research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) work. […]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is re-competing three contracts totaling approximately $470 million to customize and integrate software and applications for various offices. […]
Implementing zero trust security architectures remains a team-based exercise in which technology and security leaders need to lean on each other for knowledge and advice – even those who help run IT operations at tech-savvy agencies like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) recently launched a technology incubator – dubbed DISAWERX – to enable the rapid experimentation of new ideas and technologies for novel and innovative solutions to DISA’s most pressing technical challenges. […]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said on August 17 that all 50 states, along with the District of Columbia and all U.S. territories, have filed applications for initial planning funds under the government’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program that aims to distribute $42.4 billion of broadband-related grants to underserved or unserved communities. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in new report issued today that it has delivered another 18 recommendations to the Defense Department (DoD) to improve operations across a range of agency functions, and also provided an update showing some DoD progress on outstanding cybersecurity-related recommendations. […]
A Federal court in California last week cleared the way for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to begin gathering data on cryptocurrency transactions conducted by U.S. taxpayers between 2016 and 2021, to gauge the degree to which citizens are complying with Federal tax law on crypto transactions. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on August 11 issued a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) on the Zeppelin ransomware threat as part of CISA’s #StopRansomware initiative. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), and the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), held an annual election security exercise last week to test Election Day plans. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a second draft of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Risk Management Framework (RMF) on Aug. 18, including further guidance on developing trustworthy and responsible AI systems. […]
The U.S Army is preparing to launch a new bring your own device (BYOD) pilot program that will allow enlisted service personnel to connect their own communications devices to Army networks. […]
Pamela Coleman is stepping down from her position as Associate Director of Performance and Personnel Management at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where she has played important roles in workforce and customer experience improvement policies since joining the agency in early 2021. […]
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent an August 17 memorandum to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig setting a six-month deadline to produce a plan for the tax agency to overhaul its technology and staffing capabilities. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is out with a new set of recommendations for how the U.S. government can better compile official financial statements – an issue the GAO has been raising with Federal officials for a quarter century with varying success. […]
Nancy Rainosek, chief information security officer for the state of Texas, explained how her office has been providing secure technical infrastructure to employees executing their duties in a hybrid work environment, during an August 17 event entitled Stuck in Neutral: How to Jumpstart Change in Government, hosted by GovLoop. […]
The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has awarded Sealing Technologies a $168.5 million task order to help the agency implement a suite of tools designed for executing defensive cyber operations (DCO). […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has made only limited progress in improving the overall quality of cyber threat data information it shares with third parties, and needs to do more to provide context for that shared information, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (IG) said in an oversight report. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) announced $45 million of investments that aim to create, accelerate, and test next-generation technology to protect the electric grid from cyberattacks and ensure the seamless offering of clean and cheap energy to Americans. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) issued a cybersecurity advisory on August 18 that warns about Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that they say are “currently being exploited” against the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS). […]
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) points to the need for more workforce training on “soft skills” to fill jobs that are less likely to disappear due to tech-driven automation. […]
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The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has awarded SAIC a $319 million contract to support Air Operations Center’s (AOC) Falconer program with a reliable, secure, and modernized mission system to plan and conduct air operations. […]
The need to move away from the use of passwords as a primary mode of authentication and security remains one of the most important steps that government and private sector organizations can take to improve security and move toward zero trust security, according to Kenny Harrison, Division Chief of the Telecommunications Office at the U.S. Census Bureau. […]