Cybersecurity
Biden Team Highlights Cybersecurity Focus With First Cabinet Picks
Familiar faces will likely have to revisit efforts around information sharing and establishing global norms.
Ideas
Focus on Data Quality Now is Key to Reaping Future Benefits of CPIC Benchmarking
One of the most immediate benefits is the ability to identify what we call “shadow IT.”
Digital Government
House Bill Would Create NOAA-Led National Database to Help Coastal Communities Confront Rising Seas
The hope is to ready them up to face future weather threats.
Cybersecurity
State Department Facing 'Significant' Information Security Issues, OIG Says
Information security and management was one of seven major management and performance issues the State Department faced in fiscal year 2020.
Ideas
Mask Mandates Boost Spending with Saving Lives
While social distancing reduces consumer spending, mask mandates have the opposite effect.
Ideas
Why Face Masks Belong at Your Thanksgiving Gathering – 7 Things You Need to Know about Wearing Them
Just because you’re with people you know doesn’t mean you’re safe from the coronavirus.
Ideas
How Edge Computing and Hybrid Cloud Are Shifting the IT Paradigm
With cloud at the center of a whole new operating model, organizations will have distributed DevOps teams spinning up new applications in real time.
Cybersecurity
Agency Cybersecurity Waivers Would Face New Time Limits, Oversight Under New Bill
The proposal would require approval from the Office of Management and Budget for skipping encryption and multifactor authentication.
Modernization
CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract
The agency has awarded a contract to bring foundational cloud services from multiple cloud service providers into the intelligence community.
Emerging Tech
VA Moves to Expand Its 5G Experimentation
One of the agency’s senior innovators shed light on what’s to come—and how existing 5G pursuits have paid off in the pandemic.
Digital Government
DHS CIO Shares Plans for Next Chief Data Officer
The department’s chief information officer said her office is moving fast on building segment architectures she expects will help with risk management.
Emerging Tech
DOD Has Promising Tech. Now It’s Time to Scale It Up, Officials Say
The department needs to move certain tech from incubation to operation.
Artificial Intelligence
The Future of Defense Networks
The Defense Department’s taking an enterprise approach to its efforts to protect the government’s most important data and push it to decision-makers on the tactical edge.
Cybersecurity
OPM Offers New Guidance for Cybersecurity Rotational Programs
The personnel office also explains how participants may proceed with pending clearance investigations.
Modernization
Military Health Officials: Electronic Health Records Rollout On Schedule and Ready for COVID Vaccine
After a pause this spring, the MHS Genesis rollout is back on track, with two deployment waves scheduled for early 2021.
Artificial Intelligence
Bill to Codify GSA’s Centers of Excellence Awaits President’s Signature
The legislation would ensure the General Services Administration’s IT modernization initiative continues to the next administration.
Ideas
Hoarding, Stockpiling, Panic Buying: What's Normal Behavior in an Abnormal Time?
Hoarding disorder goes beyond stockpiling in an emergency.
Emerging Tech
CBP Proposes Eliminating Age Restrictions and Opt-Out Policies for Non-Citizen Biometric Data Collection
The new rule enables Customs and Border Protection to expand its biometric entry-exit program and changes other regulations along the way.
Cybersecurity
Bill to Secure Federal Government’s Connected Devices Heads to the President’s Desk
The bill excludes broad waivers that had concerned some cybersecurity professionals.
Artificial Intelligence