Defense
The Defense Department's cloud office will have a new home at the Defense Information Systems Agency later this month.
01/08/2021
Cybersecurity
The Justice Department today said hackers likely accessed about 3% of email inboxes.
01/06/2021
Regulation
An executive order looks to block popular Chinese payment apps and other software from being used on U.S. devices.
01/06/2021
Cloud
The House today passed a bill aimed at standardizing the processes federal agencies use to onboard cloud computing technologies.
01/05/2021
IT Modernization
As COVID-19 exposed vulnerabilities in state and local government IT systems, the newly formed U.S. Digital Response stepped in to help.
01/05/2021
Workforce
A nationwide injunction blocks sections of the order that apply to contractors and grant recipients, including a hotline created for employees to report training materials.
01/04/2021
Oversight
Most agencies maintained their grades on the latest FITARA scorecard, but the new telecom category produced some failing marks.
12/22/2020
Comment
The passage of the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 means that NIST will start to address the gap in post-market guidance to help organizations adequately address newly discovered vulnerabilities in devices already on their networks.
12/22/2020
Acquisition
Perspecta has held the Next General Enterprise Network contract for 20 years, dating back to when one of its legacy business in EDS won the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract in 2000.
12/20/2020
Acquisition
GSA plans a program of customer and industry events and interactions in the early part of 2021 to help shape its OASIS replacement contract.
12/17/2020
Steve Kelman check in with another startup firm finding its way into government IT.
12/17/2020
Defense
The Dec. 15 announcement calls out seven pilot contracts across the Air Force, Navy and Missile Defense Agency.
12/16/2020
Cybersecurity
The government watchdog determined most federal agencies were not following best practices for supply chain risk management established by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology.
12/16/2020
Cloud
After a re-award to Microsoft by the Department of Defense of the enterprise cloud contract, Amazon Web Services is headed back to court.
12/16/2020
Defense
The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act would sets a timetable for DOD to stop buying microelectronics manufactured in certain countries, potentially boosting domestic manufacturing for national security.
12/14/2020