The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is seeing good results on a program that uses AI combined with commercial off-the-shelf wearable-devices to identify if the wearer has contracted COVID-19 up to two days before symptoms show. […]
The United States needs to start accelerating the implementation of AI to compete with our adversaries, according to Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, director of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). […]
The state of Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development (DWD) is modernizing the IT infrastructure of its unemployment insurance (UI) system in concert with the U.S. Digital Response (USDR) and the General Service Administration’s (GSA) 18F. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is awarding the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (UW-APL) $959,305 to bring together experts to develop digital contact tracing (DCT) application testing criteria. […]
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is requesting information on a potential requirement for its new Enterprise Development, Operations Services (EDOS) contract worth up to $2.6 billion. […]
The Senate confirmed Boston mayor Marty Walsh as the Biden administration’s new Labor Secretary on Monday night, in a 68-29 vote. […]
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a meeting on Monday to consider the Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s America Act, or the LIFT America Act, which would provide billions of dollars in broadband funding. […]
With Federal government cloud spending on the rise, and four out of five Federal IT decision makers saying their agencies use multiple cloud platforms to satisfy different IT needs, cloud management capabilities are becoming more important than ever. […]
As the Census Bureau prepares for its planning of the 2030 Census, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that the Bureau assess data collection challenges. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is pausing its electronic health record (EHR) modernization program for up to 12 weeks to allow for a thorough “strategic review” to ensure program success. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) F-35 Lightning II Fighter program is DoD’s most expensive program and continues to face significant schedule delays including the indefinite delay of its full-rate production decision, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found. […]
The long-term march to digital government services has been hurried along in many ways by the coronavirus pandemic – think telework and minimal-to-no access to printers for many Federal employees. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking comments on an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to allow DHS to assist executive branch agencies in collecting cybersecurity vulnerability information and post the information on their own agency websites. […]
The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) said it is rolling out three new research programs aimed at energy supply chain security, protecting infrastructure from electromagnetic (EMP) interference, and cybersecurity education. […]
Microsoft and Amazon Web Services on March 16 announced a Collaborative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to assist the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Cloud Computing Program Office (CCPO) in developing a set of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates to build standard environments in Azure to accelerate Defense Department (DoD) cloud adoption. […]
The Federal government has seen a significant decline in the workforce at three key Federal scientific agencies over the last 10 years, according to a report from the majority staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. […]
To manage an increased workload, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is looking for a contractor to provide technical support for a cloud base software-as-a-service (SaaS) case management solution to aid its Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA). […]
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MeriTalk recently spoke with Bobby McLernon, vice president of Federal sales at Axonius, on how Federal agencies can ensure employees will transition smoothly back to in-person working environments, while maintaining proper cybersecurity practices. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) needs to fully address potential cyber vulnerabilities to the United States electrical grid system in its national cybersecurity strategy, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report recommends. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has appointed Kevin Duvall Acting Chief Data Officer. […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a program aimed to expand access to domestic manufacturing capabilities for the secure development of custom computer chips for defense systems. […]
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has issued an update to its request for information (RFI) seeking industry input as it looks to invest in ship-mounted cloud computing infrastructure as part of the Navy’s broader future strategy for network-centric naval warfare. […]
The United States Census Bureau is turning to cloud services, in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), to design and deploy surveys. […]
The United States Air Force (USAF) Cloud One program has allowed USAF to accelerate its digital modernization and find an advantage over adversaries, according to a USAF leader. […]
It’s hard enough sometimes just keeping up with the challenges of cybersecurity in the big headline-news cases – think SolarWinds in recent months or the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intrusion several years back. But the more you talk with experts in cybersecurity, the more it becomes clear that exploitable gaps in the network armor are nearly limitless, and that plugging those gaps requires innovative security in the spaces that remain off the radar for many. […]
The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told senators on March 18 that CISA is making efforts to complete deployment at Federal civilian agencies of the first two phases of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program by the end of this year as part of a push to shore up Federal cybersecurity after the SolarWinds Orion hack. […]
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., chairs of the Senate and House committees on Veterans’ Affairs, respectively, both predicted this week that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting effect on veterans’ access to telehealth services. […]
Federal CISO Christopher DeRusha said today that new IT modernization and security funding streams stemming from the American Rescue Plan Act represent a “down payment” on extensive work that needs to be done to improve Federal agency network security. […]
The House Homeland Security Committee approved the DHS Industrial Control Systems Capabilities Enhancement Act of 2021 today. […]
Over at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the agency is working on connecting the U.S. Army with innovative commercial technology companies as part of a big push for modernization, with many defense projects dealing with large-scale data. […]