Acquisition
Rising Star: Michael B. Cox
Data Scientist and Team Lead for Internet of Things, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Acquisition
Rising Star: Drew Zachary
Program Director, Opportunity Project, and Co-Managing Director, Census Open Innovation Labs, Census Bureau, Commerce Department
Acquisition
Rising Star: Capt. Anthony N. Rodriguez
Aide-de-Camp to the Commander of the 24th Air Force, U.S. Air Force
Cybersecurity
DHS Cyber Unit Fields False Alarms But No Hacks on Election Day
Incidents flagged as potential attacks turned out to be malfunctions or accidents, according to Homeland Security officials.
Cybersecurity
NIST Wants to Make PIV Cards Work for Smartphones in Two Years
The effort mirrors a Pentagon plan to improve identity verification on mobile devices.
Modernization
Cloud, cars and IoT could change grid cybersecurity
The proliferation of connected devices including electric cars could provide grid operators with an operational view of cybersecurity threats.
Digital Government
On Election Day, DHS isn't seeing coordinated efforts to hack the vote
The Department of Homeland Security is monitoring voting nationwide from an operations center that includes representatives from states, political parties and federal law enforcement.
Acquisition
How contracting officers want to use the new micropurchase threshold
Steve Kelman's recent talk with feds reinforced his view that a $10,000 micropurchase limit opens up vast new acquisition possibilities.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: Nov. 6
Top stories, quick hits and more from FCW's reporters and editors.
Modernization
TSA Wants Industry Input on Its Proposed Agile Contract Vehicle
The agency plans to tap the contracts for its modernization initiatives.
Digital Government
DISA Only Wants Tailored Pitches from Vendors
A Pentagon official said DISA doesn’t want to hear about how your solution worked for industry. If you don’t have a unique pitch for DISA, don’t bother.
Cybersecurity
FCW's 2018 Election Security FAQ
Are the midterm elections at risk of being hacked? Has security improved since 2016? And what, exactly, have DHS and the states been doing? Separate the signal from the noise with this one-stop overview of election-security concerns.
Modernization
DISA handed off its $8 billion cloud buy to GSA. Now what?
With its $8 billion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions procurement shifting to Schedule 70, the Defense Information Systems Agency is focusing on scale.
Modernization
DISA Prepping Three Contracts to Manage All Its Mobility Services
The military’s IT office plans to award all three contracts for mobile services and content management—classified and unclassified—before the end of fiscal 2019.
Emerging Tech
Senators Want Facebook To Fix Ad Transparency Tool
The system for verifying ad buyers is easily abused.
Modernization
Vendors tell OMB to keep it simple on cloud
In comments to Federal CIO Suzette Kent on the "Cloud Smart" policy, some big cloud providers said there are differences in models, but federal government should stick with NIST's cloud definition.
Cybersecurity