Cybersecurity
Cyber problems at HealthCare.gov, cyber sharing at the Pentagon and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Agency heads: It takes more tech than you think
Agency heads, acquisition officers and even CIOs don't need to be hard-core techies. FCW's four-part look at the expertise that's really required to make federal IT run.
Cybersecurity
Auditors and regulators: Time to hire more IT grunts?
Agency heads, acquisition officers and even CIOs don't need to be hard-core techies. FCW's four-part look at the expertise that's really required to make federal IT run.
People
What are agencies doing with IT money they're saving?
GAO says 24 federal agencies saved $3.6 billion between fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2014, and need to keep better track of how they reinvest those savings.
Digital Government
New CIO plans long-overdue upgrades at Library of Congress
A March GAO report called out five key weaknesses in Library IT, and Bernard A. Barton Jr. hopes to address all of them.
Modernization
GAO dings IRS, Secret Service techs-up for pope and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
GAO: FAA overlooking global air traffic risks
Worries persist about how well the FAA's new air traffic control system will work with other systems.
Cybersecurity
Bigger IRS breach, institutionalizing PIF, and FAA drones and glitches
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Acquisition
GAO resolves DHS CDM protest
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services lost its protest of an award that went to Knowledge Consulting Group.
Modernization
3PAO revisions and fragmented satellites
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Acquisition
HealthCare.gov's fraud failure and a $6 billion DIA deal
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Fixing FISMA, blaming … someone, and another lawsuit
Lawmakers wrestled with the regulatory shortcomings that helped allow the OPM breach to happen as they continued the search for someone to blame. Employee unions, on the other hand, know whom they're blaming.
Cybersecurity
HHS mirrors Google, bank regulators' IT shortcomings and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
CIS not so agile with agile
A GAO report says an inability to effectively implement agile and open source techniques contributed to delays and added a billion dollars to an immigration processing system's price tag.
Cybersecurity
Integrated acquisition, agile procurement and defense tech spending
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
Going big on Data Act implementation
Senior leadership's message is clear that a half-hearted effort at tracking government spending data just won't cut it.
Acquisition
OFPP issues guidance on reverse auctions
GAO studies have shown increasing use of reverse auctions, including some instances where they weren't used very effectively.
Cybersecurity
Insider threats, dashboard light, drone traffic control and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
IRS breach highlights weakness of ‘knowledge-based’ security
By answering personal questions, hackers were able to access information for 100,000 taxpayers, revealing how vulnerable the IRS authentication system really is.
Modernization