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Cybersecurity
The scope and scale of the attack as described by Microsoft President Brad Smith is in keeping with the attribution being made by public sector and private sector officials that the hack was perpetrated by Russian-sponsored actors.
02/23/2021
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Defense
Defense industry experts call on lawmakers to push for procurement protest reforms to enhance national security.
02/23/2021
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Acquisition
As the Defense Department looks to buy more services, it's going to need to come up with action plans to better account for spending in future years, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.
02/23/2021
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Comment
Responding to Steve Kelman's recent blog post, Alan Thomas shares the inside story on 18F's evolution.
02/22/2021
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Cybersecurity
The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today said his agency is looking various changes to protect federal networks in the wake of the massive breach discovered late last year.
02/18/2021
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Acquisition
The General Services Administration wants to get ahead on training and education materials contracting officers will need as Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements become standard.
02/17/2021
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FCW Perspectives
A deadline looms for switching to all-digital records, but the pandemic and other developments are presenting new challenges.
02/16/2021
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Cybersecurity
Several industry groups sent a letter to lawmakers last week urging them to include $10 billion for cybersecurity in the next coronavirus relief bill, however congressional backers of a tech push in the relief bill say that Senate opposition makes a big push unlikely to pass.
02/16/2021
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Steve Kelman hits a nerve regarding the civic tech crowd, and asks if the criticism is warranted.
02/10/2021
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Defense
Newly reported cybersecurity vulnerabilities inched past 17,000 in 2020, signaling worsening security in the defense industrial base, according to a National Defense Industry Association report.
02/09/2021
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Workforce
Lawmakers are looking to President Biden's Labor Secretary nominee Marty Walsh for help on modernizing unemployment insurance delivery, worker safety and stimulating growth in STEM jobs.
02/05/2021
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Congress
Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) said today he will likely reintroduce a bipartisan bill to improve the country's fragmentary digital identity verification systems.
02/04/2021
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Comment
The process federal agencies go through to prove a system is secure may actually be making us less secure. This is a problem that we must fix today, not tomorrow.
02/04/2021
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People
During his time as mayor, Marty Walsh pursued actions to increase the amount of minority-, women- and veteran-owned contractors in Boston.
02/03/2021
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Workforce
Federal employee groups and unions had requested that Biden remove the panel's members.
02/03/2021