UnitedHealth Group did not have basic cybersecurity requirements in place that would have protected it against the recent attack on its Change Healthcare subsidiary, according to White House Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Tech Anne Neuberger. […]
Making the Federal government workforce flourish is at the very top of the President Biden’s management agenda, and the wheels are in motion on Capitol Hill, at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and at Federal agencies to execute on the vision of restocking the government with top-notch talent. […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is seeking to purchase commercially made tools built for spotting, surveilling, and tracking illicit maritime activities in the Indo-Pacific, according to a commercial solution opening (CSO) solicitation posted to SAM.gov last week. […]
The Department of Commerce announced today that it has entered into a preliminary agreement with Polar Semiconductor to provide the company with $120 million under the CHIPS and Science Act to expand the company’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Bloomington, Minnesota. […]
The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today that her team has plans to unveil its own international cyber strategy on the heels of the State Department’s release of its International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy during the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week. […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded a contract worth $789 million to Accenture Federal Services to deliver defensive cyberspace operations analytics across Navy and Marine Corps networks. […]
Three Democratic senators are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to push for stronger accountability provisions in its ongoing contract negotiations with Oracle Cerner on the Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program. […]
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) launched the first solicitation under its new emerging technology portfolio on May 9, focusing the first lines of effort on quantum sensing tech and hypersonics. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is claiming that the agency generated a $70.4 billion return on investment during fiscal year 2023 as a result of its oversight work. […]
Tech Tonic – the happiest hour in Gov IT – is thrilled to confirm our blue-chip speaker lineup for the May 16 celebration of Women in Technology in Old Town Alexandria. […]
A new House bill aims to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin the process of updating its two legacy IT systems that manage and report on air quality data throughout the country. […]
New research from General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) that tracks progress of Federal government agencies in their adoption of artificial intelligence technologies is finding that successful AI project completion timelines are narrowing, and that future demand for AI projects appears to be building around chat and coding-related functions. […]
The United States Digital Service (USDS) received over 100 requests from government agencies for help with technology projects in fiscal year (FY) 2023 – a demand level that USDS said greatly exceeds its current resources. […]
Rear Adm. Michael Vernazza has been nominated by President Biden to be the U.S. Navy’s next information boss, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced on May 9. […]
The U.S. Army is continuing to pursue changes in the way it approaches software development. […]
The Departments of Labor (DoL) and Treasury announced a partnership to expand unemployment insurance (UI) fraud fighting tools to states through a data-matching system. […]
Dustin Brown had been tapped to serve as chief operating officer (COO) and acting chief of staff for the Social Security Administration (SSA), according to a recent update on the SSA commissioner’s website. […]
Cyber diplomats from around the world voiced support for the U.S. State Department’s new international cybersecurity strategy unveiled during the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week. […]
A panel of cyber experts expressed their support this week for the most recent congressional effort to create national data privacy standards, but also voiced some criticisms of draft legislation released last month to push those proposed standards forward. […]
Former U.S. Cyber Command and National Security Agency Chief Paul Nakasone announced on Wednesday that he is heading to Vanderbilt University to lead its new Institute for National Defense and Global Security. […]
A bipartisan pair of senators introduced legislation this week that would limit remote work by Federal employees to 40 percent per pay period, with some exceptions possible. […]
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks is making changes to the Pentagon’s authority to operate (ATO) process, which many industry officials have argued hinders rapid technology and software innovation. […]
Four key players in the establishment of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) took a trip down memory lane at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss how they worked together to set up CYBERCOM following one of the worst military compromises in U.S. history. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has named Lawrence Hale chairman of the Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee (FSCAC) that it launched in early 2023 to follow through on legislation approved by Congress in 2022 to codify the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) into law. […]
A total of 68 tech firms have signed onto the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Secure by Design pledge under which they will use best efforts over the next year to build better security into their products. […]
The use of digital tools by defense acquisition programs is a widespread practice at the Department of Defense (DoD), but much of the work along the way still includes a lot of paperwork. Defense engineers are pushing for a different approach. […]
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly said her agency is due to reveal later on Wednesday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco that 60 tech companies will be signing onto a voluntary secure-by-design pledge to make their technology products more secure against ransomware and other forms of cyberattacks. […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is working on creating a hub for space intelligence collection and decision-making, NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth said on May 6. […]
With the 2024 U.S. elections around the corner, a paramount goal at the Department of Justice (DoJ) is to safeguard the integrity of election infrastructure against cybercriminals and foreign adversaries willing to use AI and cyber tools to undermine the elections, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said on Tuesday. […]
The House of Representatives passed a bill by unanimous consent on Monday that aims to create more oversight of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) organization. […]