The Biden-Harris administration is directing $13 billion of funding to the Department of Energy (DoE) for new financing opportunities to support expansion and modernization of the nation’s electric grid. […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Nov. 18 published a new pre-production broadband service map that will be crucial in helping to decide where billions of dollars in Federal broadband assistance ends up being deployed. […]

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has sent out a memorandum that requires all federal agencies to provide inventory on cryptographic systems that are vulnerable to AI technologies by May. 4 of the upcoming year. […]

Despite deploying additional software tools to help bring more clarity to the agency’s accounting for assets and liabilities, the Department of Defense (DoD) said last week that it failed its fifth consecutive yearly financial audit. […]

Processing documents and mail. Scanning for nutritional fact panels. Measuring axial stress in railroads. Automatically decoding license plates. Measuring pulses. These are just some of the ways computer vision (CV) is helping Federal agencies meet their missions today. […]

In the waning days of 2022 and with a Federal government newly focused on customer experience improvements, it’s mostly taken as a given that major financial benefit programs should have an online application portal that works for everyone. […]

Senior Federal agency artificial intelligence (AI) and data experts talked about some of the hurdles that get in the way of moving AI pilots to more extensive production at ATARC’s Federal AI & Data Summit on Nov. 17. Dr. Heather Martin, who is acting director, Office of Plans, Programs, and Strategy, Directorate for Data and […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) is looking to invest in Federal agency IT modernization projects that can yield incremental and measurable progress over the shorter term, as well as over the life of the project, a fund official said last week. […]

The Federal government needs to pay close attention to ethics and trust as it dives further into implementing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, said Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., at a Nov. 16 event hosted by the Information Technology Industry Council. […]

The Department of the Interior – which is responsible for overseeing the infrastructure of offshore domestic oil and gas facilities – must immediately develop and implement a cybersecurity strategy to protect these facilities against growing threats, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has named Dr. Elizabeth Kolmstetter the agency’s first-ever Chief People Officer. […]

Defense contractors are not required to disclose their cybersecurity effort and waiting on them to voluntarily do so has left gaps in security, a top defense cyber official said on Nov. 16 at Politico’s Defense Summit. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has appointed Devon Beard as its new director of operations for End User Operations within the Office of Information and Technology (OIT). […]

While the United States faces a diverse array of threats to national security, Federal officials warned on Nov. 17 that China poses the “greatest long-term threat,” especially when it comes to cyber threats. […]

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Nov. 17 held a hearing to consider the nominations of three White House picks for senior positions at the Department of Energy (DoE) that would oversee the agency’s cybersecurity efforts and clean energy goals. […]

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, listed protecting information systems as a top priority for the committee during a Nov. 16 defense strategy event organized by Politico. […]

Iranian nation-state threat actors breached a Federal agency’s network before deploying malware, including a credential harvester and a cryptocurrency miner, according to a joint advisory released on Nov. 16, by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). […]

A new research study found that nearly 90 percent of Federal agencies plan to adopt 5G technology into their infrastructure to support mission imperatives, but challenges in cybersecurity and cost still cause major concerns. […]

A late-session push for passage of a Federal government software bill kicked into higher gear today with the introduction in the House of the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a Nov. 16 report that Federal agencies need to up their ransomware assistance for state, local, Tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government organizations – including schools – by improving interagency collaboration, awareness, outreach, communication, and coordination with schools. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has sized up the U.S. Secret Service’s work thus far on migrating to a zero trust security footing, and found that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) component still has plenty of work to do on that effort. […]

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has partnered with Google Cloud for many years in the agency’s worldwide mission, quickly tapped cloud-driven capabilities to render quick assistance last year to Afghanis fleeing their country for haven in the United States. […]

The Biden-Harris administration’s 120-day cyber apprenticeship “sprint” launched earlier this year has netted some impressive results including the hiring of over 7,000 apprentices, creation of nearly 200 new cybersecurity apprenticeship programs, and the addition of 120 cybersecurity-related occupations to the program. […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is launching a new cloud acquisition strategy that will offer a strategic sourcing vehicle useful to all DHS components for cloud adoption, a top agency tech official announced today. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is in the process of awarding the first Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract and is “highly confident” in its December delivery date, said Sharon Woods, director of the Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC) at DISA. […]

Officials from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the General Services Administration talked about key decision points in their agencies’ move to cloud services at the Google Government Summit on Nov. 15 in Washington, D.C. […]

NOAA Fisheries, an office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is leveraging technology to more easily combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, with the aim of protecting ocean ecosystems and sustainable fisheries. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) has launched a new legal division within its Office of the General Counsel to expand GSA technology offerings. […]

Department of Energy (DoE) Chief Data Officer (CDO) Emery Csulak has left the government for a new role in the private sector. […]

Charged with serving as the Federal lifeline for millions of citizens who need immediate help in the face of life-threatening disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is leaning heavily on cloud services to run its data management system more efficiently, securely, and collaboratively. […]