The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a final rule Thursday to expand opportunities for early career talent in the Federal government. […]
The U.S. Space Force released a new plan on April 10 that realigns and reprioritizes the service branch’s steps to better integrate commercial space capabilities. […]
In the lead-up to the Adapt 2024 conference in Washington on April 16, we sat down with two senior Axonius Federal officials – Brian “Stretch” Meyer, Senior Director of Federal Engineering, and Kevin Jones, Senior Director of Federal Sales – to talk about how Federal agencies are grappling with zero trust security mandates, and how Axonius is helping them leapfrog some of the toughest obstacles to the goal of achieving better security. […]
In its first markup in 31 years, the House Administration Modernization Subcommittee voted Thursday to approve the Modernizing the Congressional Research Service’s (CRS) Access to Data Act. […]
A new bill introduced in the House and Senate is looking to designate a principal quantum advisor to the secretary of Defense to “supercharge” the Pentagon’s approach to quantum technology. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) publicly issued an emergency directive today calling on Federal agencies to take immediate action to reset authentication credentials following a breach of Microsoft corporate email accounts by Russian state-sponsored cyber actor Midnight Blizzard. […]
The U.S. Air Force has tapped Chandra Donelson to serve as the service branch’s acting chief data and artificial intelligence officer within the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). […]
U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) deployed its digital force 22 times on “hunt forward” missions to over a dozen countries in 2023, Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh – who heads Cyber Command – told lawmakers during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 10. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) group announced today that its single sign-on service – Login.gov – will begin piloting the use of facial recognition technology next month. […]
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Denis McDonough said today that his department’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget request features a “maintenance” IT budget, and that the agency plans to dip into money left over from previous years to fund IT programs such as its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking industry comment on incident response recommendations that make up part of the agency’s latest draft of its NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0. […]
The State Department is beginning to see positive results from having taken on artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) tech work in the earlier stages of their development, an agency official said this week. […]
The U.S. Digital Service (USDS) partnered with the IRS to launch the new Direct File Pilot Program, which USDS Administrator Mina Hsiang said on Wednesday is an “incredibly exciting” customer experience (CX) achievement. […]
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted today to approve the Multi-Cloud Innovation and Advancement Act, which aims to modernize and streamline the adoption of cloud computing technologies by Federal government agencies. […]
As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) nears a contract award for its Supply Chain Modernization (SCM) program, lawmakers are calling on the VA to provide more information on the coming contract to avoid another “failed” IT modernization project. […]
Two members of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) Board said today that the group is prioritizing shareable playbooks so all of the Federal government can benefit from agencies’ modernization projects. […]
Leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight (ETSO) Subcommittee have debuted legislation to put in place stricter export controls to prevent adversary nations from gaining access to “sensitive technologies” – like artificial intelligence – created by U.S.-based firms. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking industry input on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models, tools, and services to improve its Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO). […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced the winners of the agency’s Voice Cloning Challenge, which has encouraged the creation of approaches to protecting consumers from harmful AI-generated voice cloning. […]
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced two new investments today totaling over $47 million that will help NASA and the Department of Labor (DoL) address security vulnerabilities and update legacy technology. […]
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., unveiled draft legislation on Monday that would require the Federal government to set new cybersecurity and interoperability standards for collaboration software such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Zoom. […]
The Labor Department (DoL) went public last week with its latest plans to modernize unemployment insurance (UI) programs that it operates with state government partners, and requested that Congress do its part by funding the plan. […]
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned lawmakers today that failure to pass a fully funded defense budget for fiscal year (FY) 2025 will damage the Department of Defense’s (DoD) ability to invest in capabilities that help the department meet current defense challenges. […]
Google Public Sector said today that its Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDC Hosted) service has received authorizations to host some of the most sensitive missions for the Defense Department (DoD) and U.S. intelligence community agencies. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Grants Management Quality Service Management Office (QSMO) is looking for feedback from the vendor community on the state of the commercial grants IT market. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking industry comment on incident response recommendations that make up part of the agency’s latest draft of its NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0. […]
The State Department has appointed Zakiya Carr Johnson to become the agency’s chief diversity and inclusion officer (CDIO). […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a new chief information security officer (CISO) as of April 7, a DHS spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]
House and Senate committee leaders on Sunday evening unveiled a discussion draft of their latest effort to create a national data privacy law via the American Privacy Rights Act of 2024, which notably features provisions that would allow people to opt out of the use of their data for creating algorithms that could impact a host of major life decisions. […]
The Department of Commerce today announced a preliminary agreement with TSMC Arizona Corp. for up to $6.6 billion of CHIPS and Science Act funding that the company will use to make advanced semiconductors in its planned third U.S.-based semiconductor making facility by the end of this decade. […]