The Office of the CIO of the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs sent an email on Thursday asking employees to stop streaming the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing regarding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a HUD spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The U.S. Army announced it has made 135 awards, totaling $12.1 billion, on its Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 3 Services (ITES-3S) contract. […]
The House late Tuesday voted to approve H.R. 6229, which would reauthorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). […]
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has appointed Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., and former Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., to the recently created Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a 14-member public-private panel charged with developing consensus and actionable strategy to protect and defend the U.S. in cyberspace. […]
President Trump on Tuesday announced the appointment of Victoria Espinel to a four-year term on the White House’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. […]
The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)–formerly known as DIUx–has selected Michael Brown as its new director. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced they are partnering as part of the GSA’s Centers of Excellence (CoE) initiative. […]
The software industry group BSA | The Software Alliance offered its support for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Act in the Senate. […]
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Politico to expect an updated version of the Secure Elections Act to hit the Senate floor next month. […]
The National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) at the Department of Homeland Security held its first in a series of webinars “on protecting enterprise network infrastructure devices” today. […]
The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Friday that Ruslans Bondars, the operator of counter- antivirus service “Scan4you,” was sentenced to 14 years in prison. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) today announced that it awarded a $2 million contract to HackerOne for the facilitation of GSA’s bug bounty programs. […]
CrowdStrike announced Thursday that it received an agency FedRAMP authorization which it said will allow the company “to significantly expand its footprint in the Federal government to meet demand from Federal agencies for its endpoint protection technologies. […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that CIO Pamela Dyson will leave the agency to become executive vice president, head of the Technology Group, and CIO at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. […]
The Department of the Navy released a request for proposal (RFP) for its Next Generation Enterprise Network (N-GEN) Recompete program on Tuesday–the first of two major RFPs expected for the program. […]
The Senate today approved H.R. 6157, a minibus funding bill which provides full-year FY 2019 funding to the departments of Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, and Labor, and provides a continuing resolution for short term funding for the entire Federal government until December. […]
Altaba, which holds Yahoo’s remaining assets following the purchase of the company’s internet assets by Verizon in 2017, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has reached an agreement in principle to settle consumer class action litigation relating to Yahoo’s disclosures in 2016 and 2017 of data breaches impacting three billion user accounts. […]
A report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) did not adequately secure the Medicare enrollment system, which is the primary source of information for the beneficiary population. […]
The Air Force recently released a request for proposals (RFP) for IT support services within the Air Force National Capital Region (AFNCR). […]
With the 2018 midterm elections less than 50 days away, Symantec is joining the chorus with several other cybersecurity companies by offering free election security measures. […]
Jay Tabb will begin his tenure as the executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch (NSB) early next month. […]
According to a survey from ProPublica, more than one-third of 27 counties situated in House districts rated as toss-ups in the 2018 mid-term election are not using multi-factor authentication, leaving their systems vulnerable to attack. […]
Trent Teyema, chief of cyber readiness and cyber division chief operating officer at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has left the FBI for a role in the private sector. Teyema will be joining the Parsons Corporation as senior vice president and chief technology officer for the company’s Federal business, Parsons announced on Thursday. […]
Rep. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., introduced a new bill in the House on Thursday that “would establish a grant program within the Department of Labor to support the creation, implementation, and expansion of registered apprenticeship programs in cybersecurity.” […]
Tim Ruland, the CISO at the Census Bureau, announced his retirement via LinkedIn, with his last day scheduled for September 27. […]
CyberWarCon is seeking speakers for its Nov. 28 conference in Arlington, Va., dealing with cyber attacks and information operations threats with cyber components. […]
The Government Publishing Office has named Sam Musa GPO’s new CIO. Musa previously served as chief of IT services for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and information systems program manager at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee is ready to markup S. 2785, the DETER Act, on Thursday. […]
Former Federal Trade Commissioner Terrell McSweeny has joined Covington & Burling LLP as a partner in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Law and Data Privacy and Cybersecurity practice groups. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) announced yesterday the 20 small businesses that will be part of the agency’s ENCORE III Small Business Set-Aside Suite. […]