The Department of Defense (DoD) is poised to recompete its Advana data system and plans to update the platform’s current contract to allow for a wider range of potential vendors, a senior Pentagon technology official said. During an online seminar hosted by the Center for Strategic & International Studies on July 15, DoD Chief Data […]
Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.V. – chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee – and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced a bipartisan bill this week that aims to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies at the Department of Energy (DoE). […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is preparing to roll out a pilot version of its Olympus managed cloud environment in September, designed to offer advanced management capabilities specifically for Pentagon cloud users. […]
Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said today that his office is planning to issue the 18th version of the congressional FITARA Scorecard sometime in September. […]
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The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced on Monday that it has awarded contracts to six startups for help in developing privacy-enhancing digital wallet technologies. […]
The Department of Interior (DoI) has awarded Accenture Federal Services a $250 million contract to support the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in operating and maintaining a cutting-edge mission services IT platform to ensure readiness for future challenges. […]
Federal civilian agencies are racing to meet the Biden administration’s Sept. 30 deadline to move toward zero trust principles. While the Department of Defense (DoD) has more time – until FY2027 – to address many of the core objectives in its zero trust strategy, all government sectors are keenly focused on modernizing security to guard against cyber threats that are growing in number and sophistication. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that Federal agencies reported an estimated $235.8 billion in improper payments across 71 programs for fiscal year (FY) 2023. […]
The State Department is employing plenty of technology tools in its campaign to improve public messaging efforts around the world, but is taking care to employ human-centric approaches to make sure that messaging is succinct. […]
Everyone already knows the vital role that cybersecurity plays in protecting the government and private sector functions that make up the essential fabric of American life – but few know enough about the dedicated women and men who are protecting us all on the front lines of technology. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Tuesday that it has hired the first 10 members of its AI Corps – the product of the agency’s first-ever sprint to hire 50 AI technology experts – and added a new director to lead the team. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is gearing up to launch a pilot version of its Olympus managed cloud environment in September which aims to provide advanced management capabilities for Pentagon cloud users, an agency official said today. […]
The Defense Department (DoD) today unveiled a wide-ranging plan to modernize the agency’s IT networks and compute infrastructure with the aim of providing better user-centric IT capabilities to warfighters around the globe. […]
Winners of the 2024 Service to the Citizen awards are out and headed by four major category winners from the Federal government and the private sector. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today the launch of its second class of Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) this year, marking its first cohort exclusively focused on artificial intelligence technologies. […]
President Biden has nominated Maj. Gen. Paul Stanton to become the next director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and commander of the Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network (JFHQ-DoDIN), the Pentagon announced Friday. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Cisco’s Christina Hausman, who has more than 20 years of cybersecurity product expertise, to discuss how GenAI is changing the cybersecurity landscape and how AI-enabled security solutions not only protect agency networks and data, but also ensure the safe and responsible use of GenAI tools. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Monday launched a collaborative project to adapt NIST’s digital identity guidelines to support public benefits programs, such as those designed to help beneficiaries pay for food, housing, medical, and other basic living expenses. […]
Phillip LaJoie has returned to the public health sector as the newly appointed chief operating officer (COO) for the Market Technology Integration Office at the Defense Health Agency (DHA), according to a post on LinkedIn. […]
The annual AWS Summit is coming back to Washington, D.C., on June 26-27 and featuring some of the Federal government’s top cybersecurity and artificial intelligence policy-makers to shine a light on current policy initiatives and where they are heading next. […]
The FBI is offering to victims of recent LockBit ransomware attacks the use of 7,000 decryption keys seized from the ransomware perpetrator so that victims can use the keys to reclaim their seized data. […]
Former acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden said Thursday that in light of the Change Healthcare ransomware attack in February that paralyzed the largest healthcare payment system in the country, Congress needs to act on legislation to codify cyber requirements for the healthcare industry. […]
Federal employees who are looking to retire rely on a largely paper-based system to submit their retirement applications, but the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is looking to change that through a new online application. […]
New research from Trellix, in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), reveals that 92 percent of chief information security officers (CISOs) question the future of their role amidst growing AI and generative AI (GenAI) pressures. […]
By James Turgal, Vice President of Cyber Risk, Strategy and Board Relations, Optiv The FBI recently released its annual Internet Crime Report for 2023, based on complaints received by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The report paints a concerning picture of the cybersecurity landscape in the United States. With a record-breaking 880,418 cybercrime complaints […]
Scalability, agility, and the ability to take advantage of emerging technologies are just some of the benefits Federal agencies seek with cloud transformation. Many agencies are moving toward decentralized, hybrid work environments, embracing a flexible model that enables employees to work from multiple locations, including headquarters, satellite offices, their homes, and while on the move. […]
The U.S. Army is changing how it creates and maintains the technology that runs its command and control (C2) networks, according to a special notice posted to sam.gov on May 28. The service branch is seeking industry responses to the notice by June 14. […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was the only Federal agency to receive an overall “A” grade on the latest FITARA Scorecard, so MeriTalk took the opportunity to chat with Chief Information Officer (CIO) Jason Gray about the agency’s recent scorecard success. In an exclusive interview with MeriTalk, Gray discusses the secret sauce […]