Federal CIO Kent Announces Cyber Reskilling Academy
Federal CIO Suzette Kent this morning announced creation of the Federal Cyber Reskilling Academy–a joint effort of the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Education, and the Federal CIO Council Workforce Committee–to kickstart the Federal government’s efforts to address gaps in the Federal cybersecurity workforce and help retrain Federal employees. […]
Feds Reach IT Modernization Tipping Point
A new report from MeriTalk and the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) finds that Federal finance, IT, and procurement experts believe we’ve reached an IT modernization tipping point. […]
DHS Launches ICT Sector Supply Chain Risk Task Force
The Department of Homeland Security on Oct. 30 announced launch of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, which the agency said is charged with developing “consensus recommendations” to identify and manage risk to the global ICT supply chain. […]
DHS’ Manfra Discusses FISMA Update, Impact to CDM
Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications at the Department of Homeland Security, said today that the new update to Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) guidance will place even more accountability on department leaders and reflects an evolution in discussions between agencies and DHS. […]
NSA Releases Phase One, Two Zero Trust Guidelines
The National Security Agency (NSA) is leveraging modularity and customizability in its plans to move the Pentagon toward target-level zero trust capabilities in its Phase One and Phase Two guidance documents released Friday. […]
House China Chair Warns Nvidia Chips Are Powering China’s Military AI
The chair of the House Select Committee on China is raising the alarm on China’s use of Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips for military capabilities. […]
Edge to Enterprise, Scaling Sustainability Across Civilian and DOD Missions
The push to modernize government IT is colliding with a hard reality: The most important data isn’t always generated where networks are strong, cloud connectivity is reliable, or power and cooling are abundant. […]
How the VA Leveraged AI to Accelerate Claims Processing
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to speed veterans’ benefits claims processing, using automated document analysis and search tools to cut review times. […]
Federal CIO: Government at ‘Inflection Point’ for Service Delivery
Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Greg Barbaccia said Friday that the federal government is at a major “inflection point” for service delivery, arguing that agencies must move beyond incremental fixes and overhaul how they serve the public. […]
ICE, CBP Drive DHS’ Expanding AI Footprint in Biometrics, Surveillance
Law enforcement agencies dominate the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) latest update to its artificial intelligence (AI) use-case database, and many those use cases employ biometrics and data analysis. […]
FCC Jumpstarts Effort to Find Cyber Trust Mark Administrators
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has kicked off a new effort to sign up cybersecurity label administrators (CLAs) for its U.S. Cyber Trust Mark Program. […]
Pentagon Officials Detail Cyber Plan to Counter China
Senior Pentagon officials told lawmakers that the department’s new cyber force generation model is intended to help the U.S. military remove and counter threats linked to China that have penetrated America’s critical infrastructure networks. […]
IRS Digital Overhaul Falling Short for Taxpayers, NTA Warns
The IRS’s long-running modernization push is still falling short for taxpayers, with widespread complaints about unhelpful artificial intelligence (AI) tools, underperforming online services, and slow progress, National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA) Erin Collins told Congress Wednesday in her annual report. […]
CISA Confirms Acting Director Used ChatGPT Under ‘Short-Term’ Exception
The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was given permission to use ChatGPT last summer, despite a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) prohibition on the tool for most employees. […]
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