The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), its Sandia National Laboratories, and the Georgia Institute of Technology are joining forces in a new artificial intelligence (AI) research center. […]
While large-scale IT projects can spell success for Federal agencies in the longer term, smaller and shorter-duration projects may provide a better solution to advance the cause of IT modernization, Federal officials said today. […]
NetChoice, a business trade group focused on promoting free speech and free enterprise on the internet, launched a public campaign on Oct. 7 to defend law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology, and is taking aim at anti-facial recognition effort in Massachusetts. […]
Agencies will need to address cultural and technical challenges to implement policies on open data and better data governance, and also will need the right tools and practices to effectively bring those policies into reality, according to a report released today by the Data Foundation and Deloitte. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is looking to modernize its IT, and is looking for industry help to develop a new enterprise architecture, according to a request for information released October 3. […]
When cybersecurity works at its best, you barely know anything about it. Because highly secure and efficient networks rarely create their own reasons to make the news. […]
Perhaps the most ambitious and transformational information security project ever attempted by the Federal government – the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program – is set to go under the microscope on October 10 at MeriTalk’s CDM Central conference dedicated to navigating the Federal cybersecurity roadmap. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking to test security platforms and architectures to secure Internet of Things (IoT) devices from cyberattacks in the energy sector, according to an upcoming Federal Register notice. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) better leverage existing data sources to identify abusive schemes that involve tax-exempt entities, among other steps. […]
The FBI issued a warning regarding “high-impact” ransomware attacks on Oct. 2, stressing the risk they pose to U.S. businesses and organizations. […]
Tenable’s Federal Business Development Manager Chris Jensen Shares his Thoughts on CDM Progress, Priorities, and Challenges […]
The Army Futures Command (AFC) has established cloud as a foundational part of its IT strategy, but is considering the possibility of moving all applications to its cloud-based Unified Data Environment, as noted in a request for information released October 1. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) had weaknesses that held the department back from effectively managing cybersecurity on its IT systems, according to a summary of DoE’s FISMA (Federal Information Security Modernization Act) audit released September 27 by the department’s inspector general. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reorganizing several technology-related offices in order to create “an organizational structure that is customer centric and fosters modernization,” according to a statement. […]
Seven Federal agency chief information officers and their senior staffs won well-deserved recognition earlier this month for boosting their agencies’ grades on the latest FITARA (Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act) Scorecard issued by the House Oversight and Reform Committee. […]
Now seven years from the launch of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, aimed at engineering lasting improvement in Federal agency network security, the move from legacy to cloud-based infrastructure is accelerating rapidly toward the next world of managed services. […]
Today the General Services Administration (GSA) announced its new Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) class— beginning its seventh cohort with 20 new fellows. […]
Research firm Gartner published its list of technologies that can address the pressing challenges that public-sector CIOs face over the next 12 to 18 months, with a focus on rethinking existing concepts to better meet the challenges agencies face. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is gathering feedback that it will present to telecom service providers regarding supply chain and other security requirements for 5G wireless services that the Federal government will be acquiring, a GSA official said today at the agency’s 5G Government Symposium event. […]
After all the negotiations were said and done in the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) ended up with zero dollars for fiscal year 2020 from the upper chamber of Congress. […]
An Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released today says that one of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) top management challenges is securing its information systems and networks from destruction, data loss, and compromise, based on an audit covering Fiscal Year 2018. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is moving forward with its plan to create an e-marketplace portal for Federal agencies to leverage enterprise pricing for micropurchases by issuing a request for proposals (RFP) on October 1. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) announced today that it will provide $13 million in funding for five artificial intelligence (AI) research projects. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) remains highly confident in the agency’s efforts to defend against nation-state cyber threats including those targeting U.S. elections and supply chains, a senior CISA official said today. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Sept. 30 officially transferred the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) to the Defense Department (DoD), a move that makes the Pentagon responsible for nearly all – about 95 percent – of government security clearance investigations. […]
Criteria for acquisitions to use the lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) process will be released on the Federal Register Oct. 2 and have been finalized for Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, according to an upcoming Federal Register post and a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released September 26. […]
Cybersecurity services provider CrowdStrike said in its latest half-year report that it tracked a big spike in electronic crime (eCrime) exploits in the first half of 2019, and concluded that perpetrators have continued to mature their ability to offer criminal services for hire. […]
The vast majority of U.S. primary election voters want presidential candidates to make reducing cybercrime a top priority, according to a Sept. 30 poll from think tank Third Way. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) successfully met its deadline to release its consolidated schedule solicitation on FedBizOpps today, marking progress in the agency’s mission to consolidate its current 24 Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) into a single schedule. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) is kicking off the 16th annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) today. […]