Pentagon Military Defense DoD

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) is calling on industry to provide insight into commercial data-mesh capabilities to underpin the U.S. military’s future warfighting network. […]

FedRAMP

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today released proposed new guidance to modernize the General Services Administration’s (GSA) FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) program. […]

FedRAMP

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will be unveiling proposed new guidance for the General Services Administration’s (GSA) FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) program on Friday morning. […]

FITARA Awards Scorecard 16.0

Three Federal agencies – the Labor Department, the Education Department, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – each won “Best Overall” recognition in the MeriTalk FITARA Awards for their superior performance on the 16th edition of the FITARA Scorecard released on Sept. 26 by the office of Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. […]

DoD Pentagon Military

After a year of planning, military service branches and defense agencies have submitted their zero trust security implementation plans to the Department of Defense (DoD) zero trust team for evaluation, according to the department’s zero trust lead. […]

TMF
funding

After receiving unprecedented levels of Federal funding during the COVID-19 pandemic, state chief information officers (CIOs) are growing concerned about what will happen to their operations when that funding starts to run out. […]

TMF
FITARA

While Federal agencies showed an improving overall grading trend across a range of longstanding IT-related categories on the 16th version of the  FITARA Scorecard released today, coming additions to the scoring category lineup could create a changed and perhaps more challenging landscape for overall grades on future scorecards. […]

FITARA 16.0

One-third of the 24 Federal CFO Act agencies earned higher grades on the 16th edition of the FITARA Scorecard released today by the office of Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. […]

FITARA

Version 16.0 of the FITARA Scorecard is set for release on Sept. 26, to be followed by a roundtable discussion on the new agency IT scores led by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. – who is ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation – with participation from several large Federal agency representatives. […]

TMF

Sheena Burrell, chief information officer at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and a voting board member of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) run by the General Services Administration (GSA), said today that the fund is seeing a lot of interest from Federal agencies in zero trust security-related projects. […]

TMF

A bill that would reauthorize the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) through 2030 drew wide bipartisan support today at a House Oversight and Accountability markup session, passing unanimously by a vote of 43-0. […]

TMF

Legislation introduced in the House today by Reps. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and Gerry Connolly, D-Va., would amend the 2017 Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Reform Act to reauthorize the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) for another five years – though 2030 – and make changes for agency repayments to the fund with the aim of keeping TMF sustainable for the longer term. […]

As the deadline quickly approaches for the military services to submit their respective zero trust execution plans, one thing is clear: the services are aggressively pushing to reach their zero trust goals. However, cyber experts across the military services agree that they must remain smart as they make moves toward their zero trust goals. […]

Army
Air Force

While zero trust security has become headline news for government agencies since 2021, the Department of the Air Force has been working and learning in that space for several years and is being guided by several roadmaps that incorporate zero trust principles on a strategic level, a senior Air Force tech official said this week. […]

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., long a prime mover on Federal technology policy issues in Congress, said today that he is committed to encouraging further adoption of cloud services by the Federal government “through continued FITARA (Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act) oversight hearings” by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. […]

TMF

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) is calling out to Federal agencies to apply for funding that will help them implement requirements of the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience (IDEA) Act. […]

As Federal agencies ramp up their zero trust capabilities, a new report released today by security automation provider Swimlane finds that “67 percent of federal government agencies are confident or very confident they are prepared to meet the Zero Trust requirements laid out by the U.S. government.” […]

Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded Booz Allen Hamilton big money to continue work on the agency’s zero trust network access and application security architecture, Thunderdome, according to a July 28 announcement. […]

TMF

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on July 13 to approve a spending bill that would claw back from the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) $290 million of money that was approved by Congress for TMF in prior years. […]

CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said the agency is surpassing its own target for the rate at which Federal agencies are using automated Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program reporting. […]

TMF

Without proper channels to facilitate strong communication within its supply chain, the Army Material Command (AMC) cannot meet the demand of requirements as the primary provider of materials to the U.S. Army, according to an AMC official. […]

TMF

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) is due to get no new funding in fiscal year 2024 under the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill approved today by the House Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee. […]

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