A new report out today from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) focuses on the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) growth and mission needs, and offers a range of findings and recommendations that go beyond basic funding needs to bolster CISA’s ability to defend the nation’s cyberspace and the security of Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies (FCEB). […]
Maria Persaud-Thompson is starting a new job as chief information officer (CIO) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), according to her LinkedIn account. […]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is in charge of a $1 billion grant program to improve middle-mile broadband infrastructure, but a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reveals that the NTIA has not established measurable goals for the program. […]
The General Services Administration’s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (GSA FEDSIM) has awarded CGI Federal Inc. a multi-year contract worth $522.6 million on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help modernize and support EPA’s technology systems. […]
Login.gov will begin deploying facial recognition technology next year as a way for people to verify their identities and securely access vital government benefits and services, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced Wednesday. […]
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is moving forward with piloting its Direct File tool in 13 states that will allow people to directly file their taxes next year by only using the online tool if they meet certain criteria. […]
The Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) is making some major changes to how it manages the infrastructure behind official government websites. The next change, CISA said, is launching a new .gov registrar. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) are keeping people and end users at the center of new technology initiatives, top officials from those agencies said on Tuesday. […]
With Cybersecurity Career Week in full swing, new data from a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tool has indicated that from Sept. 2022?through?Aug.?2023, there were only 72 cybersecurity workers available for every 100 cybersecurity jobs demanded by employers, leaving a need for approximately 315,000 personnel to cover those positions. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and 17 international partners rolled out the first new batch of updates to its “secure-by-design” guidance document Monday. […]
The National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) has selected its new board of trustees from industry and academia – including Intel, Stanford, and IBM – that will focus on overseeing the research and advancement of semiconductor research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is looking to use robotics in airport security screening lines to streamline efficiency and speed up inspections for travelers. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is asking organizations that deliver essential internet services to quickly apply updates and patches to their networks after news emerged this week detailing what are thought to be the largest-ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. […]
With software supply chains becoming an essential piece of Federal agencies’ cybersecurity plans, the General Services Administration (GSA) is planning to take big steps next year to improve its cybersecurity software supply chains. […]
Secretary Denis McDonough swore in Kimberly Jackson on Tuesday as the new chief of staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). […]
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has made it clear that Federal agencies can and must dutifully monitor whether their contractors comply with the E-Verify program that focuses on verifying the legal eligibility of employees to work in the U.S. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is in search of a new chief technology officer (CTO) who will be responsible for researching and determining the agency’s long-range technology direction. […]
NASA has selected seven companies to provide commercial data in support of the space agency’s earth science research program, the agency announced last week. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced the first-ever Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) investment of $19.6 million to nearly 50 teams at U.S. institutions of higher education. […]
Federal contractors and their employees are gaining extensive new whistleblower protections under a new regulation devised by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council, the Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), and NASA. […]
As banks and credit unions are increasingly using financial technology or “fintech” for financial services, the government watchdog is urging Federal financial agencies to do more to improve their workforce’s technology skills. […]
A new report from the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) sheds light on why the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scrapped plans to use Login.gov as an alternative for taxpayers to identify themselves to utilize IRS tools and services for 2023 tax season. […]
As the government-wide chief diversity officer (CDO) for the Biden-Harris administration, Dr. Janice Underwood is looking to use technology as an enabler for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) efforts. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) take several steps along the way to deciding how it goes about replacing two legacy IT systems that it has used since the 1990s to manage and report on air quality data collected by state, local, Tribal, and territorial government agencies that operate air monitoring sites. […]
Following an independent report urging NASA to take a more permanent role in researching unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) – or UFOs as they are more commonly referred to – the space agency recently appointed Mark McInerney as director of UAP research. […]
As the IRS is taking drastic steps to modernize many of the agency’s functions, a new report released on Oct. 2 indicates that taxpayer interest on a direct file system might be “overstated.” […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced a data-sharing pledge with 13 community health care systems to improve the veteran experience whether veterans receive their care at a VA facility or not. […]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced that it is creating a new team to counter claims that the agency overpays individuals through SSA programs, including the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. […]
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt strong rules against digital discrimination. […]
The Department of Treasury plans to launch a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) contract to source and streamline cybersecurity services across the agency. […]