Cybersecurity
OBIM looks for next-gen ID data processing
The Office of Biometric Identity Management’s customers include DHS components such as CBP, CIS, ICE, FEMA, TSA and the Coast Guard.
Modernization
The future of FedRAMP
The General Services Administration's Matthew Goodrich predicts more agency-driven authorizations and previews a new two-year road map.
Modernization
Verizon gets ATO for federal enterprise cloud services
Verizon’s Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition joins a relatively small but growing pool of ATO-approved cloud service providers.
Digital Government
Should social media affect your security clearance?
As continuous evaluation efforts ramp up, the intelligence community is testing ways to fold online postings into the mix.
Digital Government
DHS to gather more data from visa-less travelers
Online visa waiver system expanding to help address security concerns.
Acquisition
Rung looks to procurement workforce, collaboration
Specific proposals on hiring will be forthcoming soon, says the Office of Federal Procurement Policy administrator.
Modernization
What happens when you drop a nuclear warhead on concrete?
Sandia Labs test is designed to replicate a crane accidentally dropping the weapon's re-entry body onto a concrete surface.
Cybersecurity
GSA IT gets privacy impact assessment policy
IT program managers and system owners will be responsible for ensuring that the systems under their jurisdiction undergo a privacy impact assessment.
Modernization
Finding nukes faster
Sandia has tested a new lightweight, portable technology that can image an entire building at a glance.
Acquisition
CBP stops background checks to wait for PII upgrades
The DHS agency filed justifications for changes to blanket purchase agreements with a handful of IT systems providers.
Acquisition
DHS to embed researchers 'on the ground'
The Science and Technology Directorate will deploy research personnel to DHS components to get a better grip on agency IT needs.
People
Hamm new FedSIM director
Chris Hamm will assume the duties of the retiring Steve Viar, who has headed GSA's Federal Systems Integration and Management center since 2010.
Digital Government
Commercial customs app developed by CBP employee
A new mobile website aims to help U.S. importers, foreign exporters and federal employees more easily access customs data.
Modernization
USCIS looks to the cloud for E-Verify
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is considering shifting data processing for the employee verification system to the cloud while maintaining the public-facing Web presence.
Cybersecurity
A new approach to operational analysis
DHS is considering converting its Studies and Analysis Institute into the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center.
Cybersecurity
DHS sketches the tech future
The department's Science and Technology Directorate aims for seamless cybersecurity infrastructure as part of its long-term plan for technological development.
Cybersecurity
Is open source really a security concern?
A new report suggests common components contain serious vulnerabilities, but an open source advocate argues that's only half the data.
Acquisition
Proposed rule change could hit small IT businesses
An SBA plan would reclassify IT firms with annual sales of more than $27.5 million, making them ineligible for small business preferences.
Modernization
CDM-FedRAMP union not on the calendar... yet
The structure of continuous diagnostics and mitigation services complicates coupling the process to FedRAMP.
Cybersecurity