The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has named Faith Roy to a dual role as the deputy chief information security officer (CISO), as well as the executive director for cybersecurity integrations, logistics, and planning in the Office of Information Security, a VA spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has failed to implement key practices and appropriate controls to manage its agile software development projects, the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said in a new report. […]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) announced on Aug. 30 that the agency is soliciting input on its plans to provide $2.5 billion of grant money for electric grid resilience, and $3 billion in grant funding for electric power “smart grid” projects. […]
Amid evolving workplace changes following the worst portion of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts from the General Services Administration (GSA) are encouraging Federal agency leaders to ensure that future workplace change decisions be grounded in agency missions. […]
Fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies will bring scale and speed to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) healthcare operations, but one VA official today said the focus must shift to closing the digital divide for veterans in rural communities – in parallel to the advanced 5G work. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has named Lynette Sherrill as the agency’s permanent chief information security officer (CISO) and deputy assistant secretary for information security, according to VA CIO Kurt DelBene. […]
The U.S. Department of State (DoS) on August 29 imposed administrative debarment under the International Traffic and Arms Regulations (ITAR) upon three former U.S. private sector cybersecurity employees, according to a Federal Register notice. […]
The Department of Transportation (DoT) has appointed Jay Ribeiro as the agency’s new chief information security officer (CISO) and associate chief information officer (CIO), according to Ribeiro’s LinkedIn page. […]
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced $143.6 million in funds awarded from the Internet for All Initiative’s Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP) to Tribes in California and Washington. […]
The U.S. Secret Service said August 26 that it has recovered and returned to the Small Business Administration (SBA) $286 million of funds that were stolen from the government through fraudulent filings made for SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL). […]
A National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineer laid out some of the steps that government and the private sector should start taking now to prepare for the eventual impact of quantum computing technologies at ATARC’s August 25 Quantum Security Challenge event. […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) should improve its data collection on the usefulness of suspicious financial transaction reports, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on August 24 announced nearly $42 million in two new funding rounds through the Emergency Connectivity Funding (ECF) program to help close the “homework gap” for students that don’t have access to reliable broadband service and devices. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report showing that the Department of Interior’s (DOI) grant program to states and academia has room to improve in areas including criteria necessary for grant applications. […]
The State Department is offering a cash reward of up to $10 million for information that can help link cybercriminal activities to foreign governments targeting American infrastructure, and in particular is looking to match a published photo of an as-yet unnamed individual with the “Conti” hacking group that operates in concert with the Russian government. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has promoted Nick Lewis to serve as the agency’s new chief information security officer (CISO). […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) is seeking IT expertise from industry as part of a push to increase analysis and prediction of the nation’s water resources, according to a sources sought notice posted on SAM.gov. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new guideline aimed at preparing critical infrastructure operators in the United States for the cybersecurity dangers of post-quantum cryptography. […]
Implementing zero trust security architectures remains a team-based exercise in which technology and security leaders need to lean on each other for knowledge and advice – even those who help run IT operations at tech-savvy agencies like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). […]
A Federal court in California last week cleared the way for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to begin gathering data on cryptocurrency transactions conducted by U.S. taxpayers between 2016 and 2021, to gauge the degree to which citizens are complying with Federal tax law on crypto transactions. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on August 11 issued a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) on the Zeppelin ransomware threat as part of CISA’s #StopRansomware initiative. […]
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent an August 17 memorandum to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig setting a six-month deadline to produce a plan for the tax agency to overhaul its technology and staffing capabilities. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is out with a new set of recommendations for how the U.S. government can better compile official financial statements – an issue the GAO has been raising with Federal officials for a quarter century with varying success. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) issued a cybersecurity advisory on August 18 that warns about Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that they say are “currently being exploited” against the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS). […]
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) points to the need for more workforce training on “soft skills” to fill jobs that are less likely to disappear due to tech-driven automation. […]
One of the Federal government’s foremost technology professionals has a message for innovators seeking to transform Federal organizations and systems: don’t be afraid to fail. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) has named Brian Epley as its principal deputy chief information officer, a DoE spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
Dave Zvenyach will step down as director of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) organization next month, the agency confirmed today. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that the agency is increasing the ceiling of its Alliant 2 customized IT services contract by $25 billion, to a new ceiling of $75 billion. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) component has awarded three Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) totaling $341.5 million to Four Points Technology for cloud-related work. […]