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Adam Mazmanian
Executive Editor, Nextgov/FCW
Adam Mazmanian is executive editor of Nextgov/FCW. Before joining the editing team, Mazmanian was an FCW staff writer covering Congress, governmentwide technology policy and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Prior to joining FCW, Mazmanian was technology correspondent for National Journal and served in a variety of editorial roles at B2B news service SmartBrief. Mazmanian has contributed reviews and articles to the Washington Post, the Washington City Paper, Newsday, New York Press, Architect Magazine and other publications.
Acquisition
GSA names 7 leaders to inaugural FedRAMP board
The move comes as GSA and OMB modernize the cloud security program to implement recent legislative changes.
- By Adam Mazmanian
Artificial Intelligence
House bill targets AI-generated comments in rulemaking
The legislation looks to provide assurance that public comments on pending regulations come from real people.
- By Adam Mazmanian
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft deploys air-gapped AI for classified defense, intelligence customers
GPT-4 will be on offer for classified workloads via Azure Government Top Secret.
- By Adam Mazmanian
Digital Government
Education secretary pledges troubled online student aid tool will be ready for next fall
The online Free Application for Federal Student Aid tool had a rocky release, with bad data and uptime problems, but the Department of Education is looking for improvements next year.
- By Adam Mazmanian
Artificial Intelligence
Feds need to be careful when tapping generative AI for work
Human review of AI-generated outputs is critical, OPM says in new guidance for government employees.
- By Adam Mazmanian
People
Government Eagle Award: David Shive
The GSA chief information officer has seen the pace of change accelerate dramatically inside of government, especially recently with hard pivots on cybersecurity, customer experience, digital identity, cloud adoption and more.
- By Adam Mazmanian
People
Industry Eagle Award: Nick Sinai
Nick is renowned for mentoring an up-and-coming generation of government tech and policy talent. One supported said he's, “one of the first lifelines I call when I have a hard problem.”
- By Adam Mazmanian
Modernization
TMF doles out $47.8 million to NASA, Labor for modernization projects
The fund was zeroed out in the last appropriations round and will expire in 2025 without new legislation.
- By Adam Mazmanian
Modernization
NWS says partial circuit failure caused network outage
A six-hour outage took key weather information updates offline for about six hours earlier this week, amid outbreak of severe weather.
- By Adam Mazmanian
Modernization
Federal weather system experiences outage amid severe weather nationwide
The agency is seeking money to shore up weather forecasting IT systems in fiscal year 2025.
- By Adam Mazmanian
People
Announcing the 2024 Federal 100
Meet the 100 outstanding individuals being honored for going above and beyond in support of federal IT over the past year.
- By Adam Mazmanian
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Digital Government
National Archives tees up new rules for UFO records
New legislation mandates a governmentwide repository of records dealing with "unidentified anomalous phenomena."
- By Adam Mazmanian
Cybersecurity
CISA directs agencies to mitigate widespread VPN bugs
Two unpatched flaws in Ivanti's Connect Secure VPN are being exploited by hackers in the wild.
- By Adam Mazmanian
Modernization
At VA, cloud is still emerging tech
The agency's CIO said that "cloud still has huge potential for us."
- By Adam Mazmanian
Modernization
GSA, OMB lag on FedRAMP improvements, GAO finds
The congressional watchdog wants agencies to streamline the cloud approval process.
- By Adam Mazmanian
Cybersecurity
EU signs on to IoT safety label plan
A U.S.-led effort to offer cyber-safe labels for connected devices is gaining momentum internationally.
- By Adam Mazmanian
Acquisition
Google Cloud eliminates 'exit fees' for departing customers
The cloud services provider appears to be getting out ahead of regulatory efforts in Europe and elsewhere to promote seamless movement of data between cloud providers.
- By Adam Mazmanian
Artificial Intelligence
House lawmakers introduce AI risk management bill
The measure is a companion to a Senate bill offered last year
- By Adam Mazmanian
Policy
OMB head 'not optimistic' about avoiding a government shutdown
Congress is back next week with a short clock to pass a 2024 budget or extend the existing stopgap measures funding the government.
- By Adam Mazmanian
People
André Mendes looks back and forward
The former top tech official at the Department of Commerce looks back on a career in federal IT and previews where he thinks the AI and quantum revolutions will take us.
- By Adam Mazmanian