The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is delaying the implementation timeline for certain provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act in order to offer more flexibility for healthcare providers dealing with COVID-19, according to a notice set to be published in the Federal Register today. […]

The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) scored well on its fiscal year 2020 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) audit, with only four areas noted as weaknesses and no carry-over weaknesses from prior year audits. […]

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The Defense Department’s (DoD) new Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Strategy released last week marks a shift in the Pentagon’s views of spectrum from separate considerations of warfare-directed and general management uses, to a “unified treatment of these activities as Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO),” said Defense Secretary Mark Esper in the strategy document. […]

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking comment on Draft Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201-3 Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors Standard that defines common credentials and authentication mechanisms for logical and physical access applications. […]

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The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) has identified the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies as one of the challenges of public administration due to concerns over bias, security, and transparency. […]

While facial recognition technologies offer huge opportunities to Federal agencies, overcoming algorithmic biases with the help of diverse data sets is essential for full deployment, industry experts said Oct. 29 at General Dynamics Information Technology’s Women + Technology event produced in association with MeriTalk. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are warning hospitals and the public health sector at large that they face an “imminent” threat of malware attacks. […]

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the finalized version of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53B on October 29, which updates the security baselines under SP 800-53’s Revision 5 process. […]

Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., long a leading voice on cybersecurity policy and a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, argued this week that the establishment of internationally accepted norms of behavior in cyberspace is one of the keys to improving the United States’ cybersecurity posture. […]

The Department of Energy (DoE) is utilizing the cloud to quickly scale up its computing capacity in response to COVID-19, with the end goal of enabling DoE employees constantly in mind, said Rocky Campione, DoE CIO. […]

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Satisfaction with Federal government agencies is at an all-time high, but the average customer experience (CX) rating across government still sits below the private sector, and digital experiences are seen as a weak point, according to Forrester’s Federal Customer Experience Index for 2020. […]

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The Department of Defense (DoD) is working on a “more enduring” version of the Commercial Virtual Remote (CVR) environment technology that it ramped up earlier this year to support telework for more than one million DoD personnel during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a senior Pentagon technology official. […]

Accelerating the pace of change by bringing in motivated innovators and new ideas from startups and small businesses can be an effective way of driving real innovation across the Federal government, Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat said today at the ACT-IAC ReImagine ELC 2020 virtual event. […]

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John Sherman, Principal Deputy CIO at the Department of Defense (DoD), said Oct. 28 that the Pentagon is making progress with IT modernization activities for the parts of the agency known as “the Fourth Estate” – offices that are not military services or intelligence community agencies. […]

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The Defense Department’s (DoD) current interim rule for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) will take full effect on December 1, said Katie Arrington, CISO for DoD’s acquisition office, at an October 28 virtual event organized by C4ISRNET. […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General’s Office (OIG) is giving credit to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) efforts to improve election security nationwide, but said in a new report that CISA still has a lot of work to do on that front, particularly in areas involving physical security of election infrastructure. […]

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While the science underlying the still-nascent field of quantum information science (QIS) is well established, timelines for other key milestones in the development of QIS remain big question marks – with none bigger than the development of a QIS tech workforce that can meet increased demand for the technology in the coming years. […]

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The Federal Communications Commission on Oct. 27 voted to approve action to “reduce regulatory barriers to 5G deployment by further streamlining the state and local government review process for modifications to existing wireless infrastructure that involve excavation and deployment beyond existing site boundaries.” […]

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Defense Department (DoD) Deputy Chief Data Officer James Cully today emphasized the importance of keeping an open mind about how to work greater data capabilities into technology solutions as the Pentagon moves forward to execute on its data strategy released earlier this month. […]

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