President Biden’s fiscal year 2022 request for discretionary funding sent to Congress on April 9 would line up the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for substantial budget increases that include significant amounts for tech-related spending. […]
The Biden administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 discretionary funding request submitted to Congress on April 9 features $1.25 billion of new requests that would be aimed at undertaking further Federal IT modernization efforts. […]
With the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) now having gone over four years without a quorum, Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Jody Hice, R-Ga., are urging President Biden to appoint new members or risk the board having to cease operations. […]
The White House said today that President Biden intends to nominate Robin Carnahan to become administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA). […]
President Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan released by the White House today takes aim at upgrading technology facilities at public K-12 schools and community colleges as part of a broad education investment plan worth more than $100 billion. […]
The White House named Nabeela Barbari, a national security veteran, to President Biden’s National Security Council (NSC). Barbari will serve on the NSC as the nation’s director of resilience and response. […]
The Biden administration is proposing that the Federal government take a giant leap into the national broadband service market – traditionally the province of the private sector – in order to close persistent service availability and affordability gaps across the United States. […]
As agencies have continued to close data centers by participating in the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI), adapting to new technologies and cybersecurity must be front of mind for these closures, a Government Accountability Office expert said today. […]
The Biden Administration today proposed in its $2 trillion American Jobs Plan to invest upwards of $90 billion in Federal government-directed research and development (R&D) spending in a host of technology areas including AI. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released guidance for agencies on developing goals and tracking progress to improve the delivery of government services in priority areas. […]
President Biden today extended the term of a 2015 executive order signed by President Obama that declared a national emergency regarding “significant malicious cyber-enabled activities” by people located outside of the United States. […]
The White House said March 26 that President Biden plans to nominate Brett Holmgren to become assistant secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. […]
Vice President Kamala Harris swore in Shalanda Young as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) this morning. The White House is expected to also name her acting director of OPM at least for the short term. […]
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., asked President Biden in a March 24 letter to move quickly on nominating a National Cyber Director as provided for under the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act. […]
While the structure and details of President Biden’s upcoming infrastructure proposal are still mostly unknown, the President and his team have dropped some possible hints in recent days on items that may touch the infrastructure plan, including a boost in spending on scientific research, and attention toward infrastructure cybersecurity. […]
A group of ten tech-sector trade groups led by the Alliance for Digital Innovation (ADI) is asking the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to make some big changes to Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) rules and policies, including those covering repayment obligations. […]
The Senate confirmed Shalanda Young as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) deputy director late on Tuesday, in a 63-37 vote. The White House is expected to also name her acting director of OPM at least for the short term. […]
Federal CISO Christopher DeRusha said today that new IT modernization and security funding streams stemming from the American Rescue Plan Act represent a “down payment” on extensive work that needs to be done to improve Federal agency network security. […]
The Biden administration is still hashing through its consideration of who to appoint as National Cyber Director, but is due to conclude a review of how it should proceed on the position in the next several weeks. […]
The nine Federal agencies whose networks were compromised in the Russia-backed hack via SolarWinds Orion products are close to finishing their remediation reviews, and the government is planning new deployments of unspecified security and IT modernization technologies to avoid a repeat of the intrusions, a senior Biden administration official said during a background briefing on March 12. […]
President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act today, a day ahead of schedule due to a speedy transmission of the legislation by the House. The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill forms the centerpiece of the Biden administration’s initial legislative agenda. […]
Jason Matheny, former head of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), has been given three new technology and national security roles in President Biden’s White House. […]
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Budget Committee voted today to support Shalanda Young’s nomination as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). […]
The House voted today to approve the Senate’s version of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act – and in the process release billions of new funding for Federal IT modernization and security improvements. […]
Guy Cavallo, who joined the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) last September as Principal Deputy CIO, has been named the agency’s acting CIO effective today. […]
President Biden today named Clare Martorana Federal CIO and administrator of the Office of Electronic Government at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). […]
As Congress closes in on pushing through a historic funding increase for Federal IT modernization, former Federal IT officials gave the latest legislative advancement a warm welcome today and offered an early look at some types of projects that might benefit most from quick investments. […]
President Biden signed a March 7 executive order (EO) directing Federal agencies to aid in increasing voting access. The EO directs the Federal CIO to coordinate the modernization efforts of Federal agencies’ websites and digital services that provide election and voter information. […]
The Government Accountability Office said in a new report that the 24 Federal agencies participating in the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) were expected to achieve the 2019-2020 goal of closing 230 additional data centers and saving $1.1 billion as a result. According to the GAO report on DCOI […]
Shalanda Young, the deputy director nominee for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Jason S. Miller, nominee for deputy director for management at OMB, breezed through a hearing today in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where they both stated their support for upgrades of a number of Federal IT items. […]