The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued its strategic plan for 2023 to 2025, setting forth four main goals of cyber defense, risk reduction and resilience, operational collaboration, and agency unification. […]

While the Small Business Administration (SBA) implemented several layers of controls to prevent foreign entities from perpetrating fraud within the agency’s COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) application system, some individuals with foreign-based IP addresses were still able to access the system. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that they are partnering with Google to manufacture semiconductor chips aimed at researchers and tech startups. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) has appointed Dan Lopez director of the agency’s Login.gov service that provides secure single sign-on services used by the public to access website and applications of numerous government agencies. […]

Shelia Schick, Information Technology Specialist at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), explained on September 13 how the agency has improved its productivity by taking advantage of DocuSign products to wring better efficiencies from its work streams. […]

A senior General Services Administration (GSA) official said on September 13 that bold leadership from the top, and a willingness to explore new approaches, is driving the agency forward in efforts to remake the next generation of Federal workforces and work places. […]

The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Deputy Director for Digital Innovation (DDI) flagged competition with China, the need to create better artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, and pressures to ramp up digital capabilities as three of the agency’s biggest tech priorities at September 13 event organized by GovExec. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is harnessing technology that has succeeded in cutting the time veterans need to wait to receive disability benefits from months to minutes, according to Zach Goldfine, deputy chief technology officer at the VA. […]

The Defense Department said on September 12 that it issued updated guidance for its contracting officers on approaches for addressing inflation under existing firm-fixed-price (FFP) contracts. […]

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Worker’s Compensation Programs (OWCP) is well underway with efforts to improve customer-centric services by modernizing and transforming its claimant process. […]

President Biden intends to appoint Dr. Renee Wegrzyn as inaugural director of the newly established Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), which is housed within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). […]

A Pentagon expert involved in implementing fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies for the military explained some of the standards-setting and cybersecurity challenges surrounding the technology during an address at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit on September 8. […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) last week installed Brig. Gen. Christopher Povak as NRO’s new deputy director and commander of the Space Force Element. […]

The Department of Homeland (DHS) announced on September 8 a new hiring campaign for tech talent that will help the agency improve customer experience (CX). […]

The Department of Interior has hired Darren Ash as the agency’s chief information officer (CIO), beginning Sept. 12. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is pushing the General Services Administration (GSA) to share data that GSA is in the process of collecting on how Federal agencies are sizing up post-pandemic on-site workspace demand. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a new request for information (RFI) today looking for feedback on how to best implement cyber incident reporting requirements for critical infrastructure owners and operators. […]

Kiersten E. Todt, chief of staff (COS) at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), detailed some of the ways the agency is recruiting people and what they are looking for in possible candidates and ways they can expand in the future. […]

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Director Scott Berrier concluded the 13th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit by discussing where the Federal agency is in terms of its intelligence supporting cyber warfighting, and where it needs to go. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) new zero trust strategy outlines 90 capabilities that will help the department bring to bear its “targeted” zero trust framework across the entire department, said DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman. […]

The Billington CyberSecurity Summit closed out day two with a discussion with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Senior Election Security Advisor, Kim Wyman, on the necessity of voting infrastructure protection in the upcoming national elections. […]

Having a strong “collective defense” – whether that’s a public-private partnership or an international alliance – is critical to defending against cyber adversaries and keeping all entities safe, according to Ann Dunkin, chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Energy. […]

Russia’s war on Ukraine has not singularly been a terrestrial battle. The war has also involved large-scale cyber operations – the first of its kind. However, Russia has been unable to achieve any prominent advantage in its cyber warfare efforts after its first attack. Ukrainian digital officials attribute this to their ‘secret ingredient’ – the Ukrainian IT Army. […]

William J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailed some of the most important actions that they are undertaking to deter foreign adversaries in the realm of cybersecurity at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit on September 8. […]

The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) was served a management advisory memorandum from the VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) due to faulty electronic systems that improperly collected debt, according to a report released on September 7. […]

The White House said it condemns Iran for its cyberattack against Albania and plans to take action to hold Iran accountable, according to a September 7 statement from the National Security Council (NSC). […]

The House of Representatives is in the market for a new chief information security officer (CISO) to lead the legislative chamber’s cybersecurity efforts on behalf of its 10,000 members, staff, and officers. […]

Work by the Biden administration’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) on a national cybersecurity strategy is “well underway,” said the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a report issued this week that features a timeline of the ONCD’s activities since mid-2021. […]

Collaborating with private entities is a sure way to improve the security of open source software, said Allan Friedman, the senior advisor and strategist for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Strategy Agency (CISA), during day two of the Billington CyberSecurity Summit. […]

The cyber domain is an ever-changing landscape and the best way to gain an advantage and mitigate possible threats is constant surveillance, said David Frederick, the executive director at the U.S. Cyber Command. […]