Smarter Gov Tech, Stronger MerITocracy
Rep. Mark Green

Members of the House Homeland Security Committee are probing the intelligence community to provide updated information on the cyber threat China poses to the United States in the wake of reports that claim the PRC breached major phone and broadband companies. […]

Air Force

The Department of the Air Force (DAF) announced on Tuesday that it appointed Susan Davenport to serve as the department’s new chief data and artificial intelligence officer (CDAO). […]

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State Department

The chief information officer (CIO) at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) laid out his team’s priorities for fiscal year (FY) 2025 with modernization, cybersecurity, and IT expansion topping the list. […]

DoD

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) top cyber official announced that the department is evaluating three potential candidates for continuous authority to operate (cATO) authorizations. […]

Highly Assured Data-Centric Security (HADCS) goes beyond traditional perimeter-based security models by shifting the focus to securing the data itself, explained Keith Strini, the chief technical strategist for the Department of Defense and intelligence community at Dell Technologies. […]

Pentagon Military Defense DoD

Industry experts on Wednesday discussed how they are working with the Department of Defense (DoD) and intelligence agencies to leverage zero trust to meet the information-sharing requirements of the United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) and its partners. […]

President Biden Signs AI EO / POTUS Twitter

The Biden administration publicly unveiled its first-ever National Security Memorandum (NSM) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) today, bolstering the role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) AI Safety Institute (AISI) to be industry’s “primary port of contact” in the Federal government. […]

Pentagon Military Defense DoD

As cyber threats evolve at lightning speed, Defense Department (DoD) Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) David McKeown unveiled his top ten cyber priorities, with cryptographic modernization (CM), zero trust, and defense industrial base (DIB) cybersecurity at the top of the list. […]

Cloud

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is utilizing cloud technology on its path to digital transformation to help it follow its internal mantra of “Buy vs. Build,” according to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry. […]

USAJOBS, Federal workforce

Two new talent programs announced on Wednesday by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will help Federal agencies to better identify Federal interns and recent graduates, continuing the government’s efforts to recruit early career talent.  […]

Members of the Open Government Federal Advisory Committee (OG FAC) and other top Federal officials said on Wednesday that technology should be leveraged in developing the sixth U.S. Open Government National Action Plan (NAP 6).  […]

FCC

The Defense Department (DoD) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced on Tuesday they approved their first group of small business investment licensees that plan to collectively invest $2.8 billion across more than 1,000 technology companies.  […]

The Department of the Navy announced on Tuesday that its Flank Speed cloud service is the first to achieve full compliance with the Department of Defense’s (DoD) zero trust goal by meeting all 91 targeted zero trust capabilities, hitting a major milestone about three years ahead of deadline. […]

Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA

To mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month, global tech trade association ITI released a new document on Tuesday that provides in-depth suggestions on how policymakers can improve the cybersecurity of AI models and systems. […]

Jen Easterly, CISA at Billington Cybersecurity Summit
TMF

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced today its latest round of investments, totaling $50.2 million, aimed at modernizing critical customer experience services across two Federal agencies. […]

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Customer experience CX-min

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is exploring rulemaking around the possibility of publicly posting certain contractor performance metrics to GSA eCommerce and digital platforms like GSA Advantage!. […]

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Modernization, Army, cybersecurity, technology

Federal government agencies both big and small have been working on their migrations to zero trust security architectures for the better part of three years now, but how can anyone outside of those agency tech shops tell how well they are doing so far? […]

The Department of Commerce (DoC) announced Monday it has reached a preliminary agreement with Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC) for up to $325 million in proposed direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to support the construction of a new semiconductor-grade polysilicon manufacturing facility on HSC’s existing campus in Hemlock, Mich. […]

Army

The U.S. Army’s chief information officer (CIO) plans to release a memo outlining new efforts aimed at improving the Army’s continuous authority to operate (cATO) processes, Army CIO Leonel Garciga announced last week. […]

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