“Water is what kept me up at night,” said Philip Stupak, a former assistant national cyber director, at ISC2 Security Congress 2026. Small water districts are particularly vulnerable to attack – and increasingly critical to national security. […]

What would it take to cut the wait for a business license in half? In this episode of MeriTalking, MeriTalk’s Caroline Boyd speaks with Clark County CIO Bob Leek, Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams, Dell Technologies mission executive Matt Fraser, and NVIDIA senior business manager for state and local government Michael Sherwood about connecting AI investments to better public services. […]

The agency’s 2030 roadmap calls for stronger operational technology security, intelligence-driven risk decisions, and expanded emergency communications capabilities. […]

New acquisition requirements address data handling, supplier due diligence, foreign government influence, human oversight, and incident reporting in covered large language model contracts. […]

GAO found that CIO risk ratings for major federal IT investments often understated risk or were not updated on time, raising concerns as OMB prepares to replace the Federal IT Dashboard. […]

The new investments target federal payroll, diplomatic workflows, environmental reviews, and airline-consumer complaints. […]

CISA is ramping up staffing and 24/7 support for the new service as officials look to expand governmentwide cyber visibility and give agencies a lower-cost path to modern SIEM capabilities. […]

The acting federal CISO said agencies now have an opening to turn years of zero trust planning into more measurable, operational security. […]

FedRAMP Director Pete Waterman says there is “still so much work to do” as he prepares to return from administrative leave on Aug. 27. […]

GSA placed FedRAMP Director Pete Waterman on administrative leave after he called veterans’ preference in federal hiring “brutally unfair” in a LinkedIn post. […]

The Senate proposal would preserve the Technology Modernization Fund’s ability to make new investments while extending key cybersecurity authorities through Dec. 11. […]

Technology organizations are urging Senate appropriators to reauthorize the TMF, warning that a lapse would halt new investments in federal IT modernization. […]

Months after GAO urged OMB to strengthen AI privacy guidance, the watchdog says it has yet to receive a response. […]

A GAO report found that while only a fraction of TMF’s projected savings have been realized, most anticipated cost reductions are expected in fiscal year 2027 or later. […]

The Hugging Face breach is prompting calls from federal officials and lawmakers for stronger AI security and faster cyber defenses. […]

FedRAMP Director Pete Waterman said the program accepted its first rotational employee as its new Cybersecurity Service begins taking shape, even as hiring challenges slow efforts to recruit cloud security experts. […]

The Virginia congressman said lawmakers should use the 2027 reauthorization to strengthen FedRAMP while preserving rigorous security standards. […]

As he prepares to leave government, Greg Barbaccia says cultural change among agency CIOs is his biggest accomplishment – but warns outdated laws will continue to slow modernization without congressional action. […]

As agencies compete for the fund’s remaining awards, TMF is prioritizing proposals that deliver measurable improvements to mission delivery. […]

The TMF’s push for proposals focused on AI and permitting comes as it faces a Sept. 30 deadline to make new investments absent congressional reauthorization. […]

The final package gives agencies, cloud providers, and assessors a single public rulebook and establishes transition deadlines through 2027. […]

Acting Executive Director Jessie Posilkin is urging Congress to renew the Technology Modernization Fund before its authorization expires at the end of the fiscal year. […]

After identifying $55 million in IT savings through technology business management, a Commerce official says a new enterprise cost transparency dashboard could help triple that figure. […]

Program manager Matt House says the agency has completed efforts to help federal agencies deploy endpoint detection and response tools, marking a key milestone for the CDM Program. […]

Federal CIOs are urging vendors to move beyond feature-heavy pitches and deliver mission-focused IT solutions tied to measurable outcomes for Americans. […]

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is expanding its push to modernize federal cloud security with a new FedRAMP Cybersecurity Service designed to speed cloud authorizations while bringing rotating technical experts into the program. In an interview with MeriTalk, FedRAMP Director Pete Waterman said the initiative is part of the broader FedRAMP 20x effort. […]

The General Services Administration’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) opened job applications for its FedRAMP Cybersecurity Service (FRCS) and is offering the first look into its consolidated rules, which are set to release next month.  […]

A coalition of U.S. government agencies, led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has released a new guide aimed at strengthening cybersecurity practices in operational technology (OT) environments. […]

State and local government leaders said on Tuesday that shrinking federal grant support and tighter local budgets are forcing them to rethink how they fund and scale zero trust efforts, even as cyber threats continue to grow. […]

A senior federal cybersecurity leader said on Tuesday that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is forcing agencies to rethink how they manage risk within zero trust architectures because machine-speed decision-making strains traditional security controls. […]