The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) awarded $70 million in funding to seven research projects that will assist in the continued development of a supercomputer model of Earth’s climate system, according to an Aug. 30 press release. […]

Seven Federal agencies have provided hundreds of millions of dollars to 22 different Tribal development programs over a recent four-year period, but have failed to analyze and report on the degree to which that support has helped Tribal communities, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report published on Aug. 30. […]

The future of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in government remains a developing work in progress, but for evidence of the technology’s rapid development and staying power, it might just be enough to order some fast-food takeout. […]

A General Services Administration (GSA) official emphasized the importance of ethics, literacy, and culture in the government data science arena during an August 30 event organized by GovLoop. Trey Bradley, GSA’s Strategic Data Initiatives Program Director in the Office of Shared Solutions and Performance Improvement, was one of the key players in developing the Federal […]

The Indian Health Service (IHS) has awarded an $89 million contract to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) for software engineering support services. […]

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has appointed Timothy Amerson deputy associate commissioner and deputy chief information security officer (CISO) for the agency’s office of Information security, Amerson announced via his LinkedIn page. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has named Faith Roy to a dual role as the deputy chief information security officer (CISO), as well as the executive director for cybersecurity integrations, logistics, and planning in the Office of Information Security, a VA spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has failed to implement key practices and appropriate controls to manage its agile software development projects, the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said in a new report. […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) announced on Aug. 30 that the agency is soliciting input on its plans to provide $2.5 billion of grant money for electric grid resilience, and $3 billion in grant funding for electric power “smart grid” projects. […]

Amid evolving workplace changes following the worst portion of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts from the General Services Administration (GSA) are encouraging Federal agency leaders to ensure that future workplace change decisions be grounded in agency missions. […]

Since its establishment in 2021, the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has been rapidly staffing up toward its planned workforce of about 75 full-time positions as the end of Fiscal Year 2022 nears. […]

One of the biggest challenges facing Federal government agencies is recruiting and retaining
skilled IT workers. Providing employees with the right kind of technical training can help solve both
problems. […]

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., Chair of the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent letters to four Federal agencies and five digital asset exchanges on August 30 to gather information on actions they’re taking to combat cryptocurrency-related fraud and scams. […]

The United States Air Force (USAF) has released a draft version of its Chief Information Officer (CIO) Public Strategy that outlines the service branch’s IT priorities through fiscal years 2023 to 2028. […]

President Biden confirmed his intention today to give Federal civilian employees a 4.6 percent pay raise next year – making it the largest Federal pay raise in 20 years. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) plans to implement a zero trust architecture across the entire department by 2027, and will soon release a detailed strategy on how it will get there, a DoD spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The Pentagon’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has released a new strategy to improve the state of the agency’s data integration and utilization, information technology, and network capabilities. […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has appointed Mike Madsen to serve as acting director starting Sept. 2, when current DIU Director Mike Brown departs, a DIU spokesperson told MeriTalk.  Madsen will remain as acting director until a permanent director is selected. […]

The Department of Defense said on August 30 that technology services provider CACI has won a $5.71 billion blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Air Force to provide enterprise IT services under the Enterprise Information Technology as a Service (EITaas) Wave 1 contract. […]

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is seeking the public’s perspective in a  formal review of the government’s standards for collecting race and ethnicity data, according to a blog written by Chief Statistician, Karin Orvis, and released by the White House on Aug. 30. […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans on plowing ahead in the coming years with ongoing initiatives to migrate to cloud-based platforms and improve cybersecurity, according to its just-released Strategic Plan Report for Fiscal Years 2022-2026. […]

Fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies will bring scale and speed to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) healthcare operations, but one VA official today said the focus must shift to closing the digital divide for veterans in rural communities – in parallel to the advanced 5G work. […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has pinpointed three top challenges the agency plans to address as it gets ready to make more use of mobile technologies, an agency senior technology lead said today. […]

Lawrence Hale, who recently took over as Acting Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Category Management, Office of Information Technology Category at the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service, explained today that his office’s fiscal year 2023 priorities focus on helping Federal agencies work toward easier cloud service adoption and continued progress in zero trust security migration.  […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has named Lynette Sherrill as the agency’s permanent chief information security officer (CISO) and deputy assistant secretary for information security, according to VA CIO Kurt DelBene. […]

The U.S. Department of State (DoS) on August 29 imposed administrative debarment under the International Traffic and Arms Regulations (ITAR) upon three former U.S. private sector cybersecurity employees, according to a Federal Register notice. […]

Automating and digitizing how government does business has become the unstoppable force for improving service to citizens, and DocuSign is lining up some of the most creative IT leaders in the Federal arena to help explain the next chapter in tech-driven gains on September 13 in Washington, D.C. […]

The Department of Transportation (DoT) has appointed Jay Ribeiro as the agency’s new chief information security officer (CISO) and associate chief information officer (CIO), according to Ribeiro’s LinkedIn page. […]

More than half of recent college graduates are not considering a job within the Federal government, according to a new study from Qualtrics based on survey data from April 2022. […]

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced $143.6 million in funds awarded from the Internet for All Initiative’s Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP) to Tribes in California and Washington. […]