Congress should shore up the role of the Federal chief information officer (CIO) and consider enshrining the position into law to help improve the government’s often troubled management of IT, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report. […]
The Justice Department’s (DoJ) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) component expect to complete a major cloud-based system overhaul over the next year, according to DEA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Nick Ward. […]
A senior National Institutes of Health (NIH) technology official talked about the agency’s strategy to leverage cloud services to further its data science strategic plan during a September 15 Federal News Network event. […]
The Federal government’s Joint Ransomware Task Force (JRTF) kicked off its inaugural meeting with a discussion of new initiatives to collaborate with state, local, tribal, and territorial entities to protect against ransomware intrusions and disrupt malicious actors, according to a September 14 press release from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). […]
As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) engages in a whole-of-agency approach to curb veteran suicide rates that have hovered near or above 6,000 per year for the past two decades, a new government watchdog report finds that technology is proving its value in that effort. […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be investing $130 million over the next four years to spread the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in behavioral and biomedical research, the agency said on September 13. […]
Amid a nationwide inflation rate of more than 8 percent, the General Services Administration (GSA) has updated its guidance for Federal contracting officers, making it easier for them to adjust prices on contracting schedules. […]
James Wolff, chief information officer (CIO) at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), explained this week that modernization of the agency’s IT functions is at the top of the list of priorities, and how cloud services fit into that picture. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with its partners, released a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) on Sept. 14 to warn agencies about continued malicious cyber activity from actors affiliated with the Iranian Government’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued its strategic plan for 2023 to 2025, setting forth four main goals of cyber defense, risk reduction and resilience, operational collaboration, and agency unification. […]
While the Small Business Administration (SBA) implemented several layers of controls to prevent foreign entities from perpetrating fraud within the agency’s COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) application system, some individuals with foreign-based IP addresses were still able to access the system. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that they are partnering with Google to manufacture semiconductor chips aimed at researchers and tech startups. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has appointed Dan Lopez director of the agency’s Login.gov service that provides secure single sign-on services used by the public to access website and applications of numerous government agencies. […]
Shelia Schick, Information Technology Specialist at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), explained on September 13 how the agency has improved its productivity by taking advantage of DocuSign products to wring better efficiencies from its work streams. […]
A senior General Services Administration (GSA) official said on September 13 that bold leadership from the top, and a willingness to explore new approaches, is driving the agency forward in efforts to remake the next generation of Federal workforces and work places. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is harnessing technology that has succeeded in cutting the time veterans need to wait to receive disability benefits from months to minutes, according to Zach Goldfine, deputy chief technology officer at the VA. […]
President Biden intends to appoint Dr. Renee Wegrzyn as inaugural director of the newly established Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), which is housed within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). […]
The Department of Homeland (DHS) announced on September 8 a new hiring campaign for tech talent that will help the agency improve customer experience (CX). […]
The Department of Interior has hired Darren Ash as the agency’s chief information officer (CIO), beginning Sept. 12. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is pushing the General Services Administration (GSA) to share data that GSA is in the process of collecting on how Federal agencies are sizing up post-pandemic on-site workspace demand. […]
Kiersten E. Todt, chief of staff (COS) at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), detailed some of the ways the agency is recruiting people and what they are looking for in possible candidates and ways they can expand in the future. […]
The Billington CyberSecurity Summit closed out day two with a discussion with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Senior Election Security Advisor, Kim Wyman, on the necessity of voting infrastructure protection in the upcoming national elections. […]
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) was served a management advisory memorandum from the VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) due to faulty electronic systems that improperly collected debt, according to a report released on September 7. […]
Collaborating with private entities is a sure way to improve the security of open source software, said Allan Friedman, the senior advisor and strategist for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Strategy Agency (CISA), during day two of the Billington CyberSecurity Summit. […]
The Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Eric Goldstein, preached the importance of offensive and defensive cybersecurity teams working together to mitigate attacks in America from adversaries. […]
Government officials from the Department of State (DOS), Energy (DoE), and Health and Human Services (HHS) revealed their visions for the future and top priorities pertaining to modernizing information technology (IT) within the Federal government. […]
The National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) announced a project that will eventually result in a Cybersecurity Practice Guide to help smart home device users safely access their healthcare information digitally. NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence finished the final project description late last month. […]
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Brian Gattoni, discussed the future of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to Federal cybersecurity operations during the Billington Cybersecurity Summit on September 7. […]
A spokesperson for the General Services Administration (GSA) told MeriTalk today that more than 100 agencies have signed on to extend their current set of telecommunications contracts for an additional year, and of those, 48 have completed the process. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is seeking feedback from the private sector on existing application security testing capabilities for Federal agencies. […]