Digital Government
FCW Insider: December 10, 2021
The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors.
Digital Government
Social Security Enjoys Broad Customer Satisfaction As It Overhauls Telephone System
The Social Security Administration has been angling to streamline and automate its call center for quicker customer service.
Emerging Tech
Defense Spending Bill Contains ‘Most Significant’ UFO Legislation Since 1960s
The legislation calls for details on reported health issues connected to UAP sightings, ‘transmedium objects,’ those that hover near military nuclear sites—and more.
Digital Government
GAO: Pentagon Needs Goals to Improve CMMC Framework
The watchdog made several recommendations in an audit of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification effort.
Cybersecurity
NIST Outlines Request for Information Toward a New Cybersecurity Framework
The update will include a focus on supply chains for both hardware and software.
People
Vaccination rates tick up slightly among federal employees
The number of vaccinated feds has increased, although there are still thousands of pending exception and extension requests to the mandate.
Digital Government
Defense Spending Could Rise, Wall Street Analysis Say
Ten months into the Biden administration, predictions of flat budgets are evaporating amid inflation and Congress delays.
Digital Government
Tech Holds the Key to Overlapping Climate, Conservation and Peacebuilding Goals
Satellite Imagery Can Empower Communities and NGOs worldwide.
Modernization
Pentagon adds new top AI role
The Pentagon is creating a new position to lead its artificial intelligence efforts across the enterprise.
People
The Biden war on administrative burdens
Steven Kelman calls attention to new efforts to reduce red tape.
Policy
Biden Order Will Make Federal Operations Carbon-Neutral by 2050
Agencies have just six more years before they must stop buying polluting cars.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: December 9, 2021
The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors.
Artificial Intelligence
DOD to Hire First-Ever Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, Form New Office
The official will help supervise and integrate disparate AI efforts across the CDO, JAIC and DDS.
Emerging Tech
Senator Doubles Down On Data Privacy, Sends Letter to CFPB
Sen. Ron Wyden asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to tighten its rules regarding data broker sales.
Acquisition
Biden executive order calls for 65% drop in federal government emissions by 2030
A new White House executive order looks to leverage the purchasing power of the federal government to support clean energy goals, and sets ambitious targets for a carbon neutral government by 2050.
Policy
How China Is Digitally Challenging US Central Command
The Pentagon may have “CENTCOM fatigue,” but Beijing is pushing into the Middle East, warns the command’s communications chief.
Cybersecurity
Cyber in the 2022 defense bill
As has been the case for the past few years, cyber governance provisions were featured in this year's must-pass defense policy bill moving through Congress, but a bipartisan breach notification measure was dropped from the bill -- to the chagrin of its supporters.
Cybersecurity
House Passes NDAA Without Cyber Incident Reporting Legislation
The bill still includes what the House Armed Services Committee referred to as the widest empowerment of CISA since SolarWinds.
Emerging Tech
ACLU Calls for Halt of Homeland Security’s Use Of Facial Recognition Technology
The civil rights organization said that the biometrics technology can lead to discriminatory arrests based on race.
Emerging Tech