MeriTalk’s mixologists are giving the artist formerly known as Cyber Smoke a new shake. As of 2024, the bi-monthly power networking event is called MeriTalk Tech Tonic. […]
Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. – ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation – expressed disappointment today in his Republican colleagues for a lack of participation in the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard. […]
Although Federal agencies received low marks in the new cloud computing category of the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard issued today by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., tech leaders from several agencies expressed gratitude for creation of the new category and shared plans to improve their scores going forward. […]
The downward trend in overall agency grades on the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard issued by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., today reflects two big changes in how the latest scorecard was assembled – one of which Federal agencies can do something about going forward, and another that they cannot. […]
Many Federal agencies received lower grades on the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard issued by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., today, due at least in part to a significant reshuffling of the IT-related categories that the scorecard uses to issue overall grades for the 24 largest Federal agencies. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has released a draft framework on how its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) will prioritize certain Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs) that provide specific generative AI technologies. […]
Version 17.0 of the FITARA Scorecard is set for release on Thursday, Feb. 1, to be followed by a roundtable discussion on the new agency IT scores led by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. – who is ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation – with participation from several large Federal agency officials. […]
As the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) works to modernize the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), top officials from OMB this week previewed coming changes for the program. […]
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced three investments today totaling over $71 million to help the Department of Justice (DoJ), General Services Administration (GSA), and Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) address security vulnerabilities and deliver better customer experience (CX) to the American public. […]
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that Federal agencies’ implementation of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) continued to be mostly ineffective in recent years, and it calls on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop better metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of FISMA. […]
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) – administered by the General Services Administration (GSA) – has issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 Impact Report, offering a detailed look into the fund’s investments over the past year and a look ahead to what’s in store for 2024. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report this week that cost savings generated by Federal agency IT projects funded by the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) have been relatively small thus far, but could grow much larger as some of those projects proceed further. […]
While implementing a zero trust architecture in the Federal government can often feel like a compliance activity, cybersecurity experts on Tuesday stressed that it’s more than just meeting standards and requirements – it’s about protecting your intellectual property and people. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is seeking input from the private sector about supply chain risk illumination tools that will help mitigate supply chain risks, according to a request for quotes posted by the agency on Oct. 27. […]
With the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program – one of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) top security efforts for Federal agencies – hitting its 11-year anniversary, Program Manager Matt House last week discussed some of the program’s major priorities for fiscal year 2024. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) is calling on industry to provide insight into commercial data-mesh capabilities to underpin the U.S. military’s future warfighting network. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today released proposed new guidance to modernize the General Services Administration’s (GSA) FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) program. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will be unveiling proposed new guidance for the General Services Administration’s (GSA) FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) program on Friday morning. […]
Three Federal agencies – the Labor Department, the Education Department, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – each won “Best Overall” recognition in the MeriTalk FITARA Awards for their superior performance on the 16th edition of the FITARA Scorecard released on Sept. 26 by the office of Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. […]
A key step in achieving zero trust security is building a different kind of trust, a “cultural alignment” within agencies that allows employees to trust in the steps needed to proactively respond to threats, a top Department of Energy (DoE) official said on Oct. 24. […]
After a year of planning, military service branches and defense agencies have submitted their zero trust security implementation plans to the Department of Defense (DoD) zero trust team for evaluation, according to the department’s zero trust lead. […]
Raylene Yung is stepping down as the General Services Administration (GSA) Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) executive director, with today being her last day on the job. […]
After receiving unprecedented levels of Federal funding during the COVID-19 pandemic, state chief information officers (CIOs) are growing concerned about what will happen to their operations when that funding starts to run out. […]
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced two new investments today totaling over $9 million that will help the Department of Transportation (DoT) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to improve consumer protection systems. […]
While Federal agencies showed an improving overall grading trend across a range of longstanding IT-related categories on the 16th version of the FITARA Scorecard released today, coming additions to the scoring category lineup could create a changed and perhaps more challenging landscape for overall grades on future scorecards. […]
One-third of the 24 Federal CFO Act agencies earned higher grades on the 16th edition of the FITARA Scorecard released today by the office of Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. […]
Version 16.0 of the FITARA Scorecard is set for release on Sept. 26, to be followed by a roundtable discussion on the new agency IT scores led by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. – who is ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation – with participation from several large Federal agency representatives. […]
Sheena Burrell, chief information officer at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and a voting board member of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) run by the General Services Administration (GSA), said today that the fund is seeing a lot of interest from Federal agencies in zero trust security-related projects. […]
A bill that would reauthorize the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) through 2030 drew wide bipartisan support today at a House Oversight and Accountability markup session, passing unanimously by a vote of 43-0. […]
Legislation introduced in the House today by Reps. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and Gerry Connolly, D-Va., would amend the 2017 Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Reform Act to reauthorize the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) for another five years – though 2030 – and make changes for agency repayments to the fund with the aim of keeping TMF sustainable for the longer term. […]