Budget
House and Senate appropriators differ by $1 billion in their bills to fund the Census Bureau in fiscal year 2019.
06/20/2018
Congress
Five Capitol Hill security hawks are asking Google CEO Sundar Pichai to justify a partnership with Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei.
06/20/2018
Congress
A new bipartisan bill looks to build capacity inside the federal government to evaluate supply chain risks with an eye to making sure the government buys secure tech.
06/19/2018
Workforce
Federal employees would receive a pay raise under a bill cleared by a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, going against the White House’s proposal for a pay freeze.
06/19/2018
Congress
Congress and the White House could be headed toward a showdown over a provision in the Senate defense bill designed to undo a move by President Trump easing sanctions on the Chinese telecom giant ZTE.
06/19/2018
Modernization
The House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that would provide $150 million for the centralized fund created by the Modernizing Government Technology Act, falling $60 million short of the White House’s fiscal year 2019 request and $100 million short of what the MGT Act authorizes.
06/14/2018
Acquisition
Lawmakers join the Government Accountability Office in asserting greater oversight and review over "other transaction authority" awards.
06/14/2018
People
Phyllis Bailey, the CIO for the Army's Information Assurance Training, Education, and Awareness Division, received CompTIA's 2018 Excellence in Cybersecurity Award for driving DOD's information security certification requirements.
06/13/2018
Workforce
A group of 21 Republican lawmakers wants the Trump administration to reconsider three executive orders on federal unions that they say undermine existing labor laws.
06/13/2018
Homeland Security
After running the operation for almost a year, the temporary head of the National Protection and Programs Directorate is set to be sworn in as the group's official director.
06/13/2018
Elections
The Protecting Americans Votes and Elections Act sponsored by six Senate Democrats looks to digital ballot uncertainty by requiring paper ballots for all federal elections.
06/12/2018
Workforce
Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner proposed new cost transparency and processing goals to reform the federal security clearance process.
06/12/2018
Spectrum
New legislation would provide more money for agencies to research how to free up their federal spectrum holdings for commercialization.
06/11/2018
Defense
The Senate released its text and report for the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. Take a look at a few of the biggest cyber provisions that could make it through final passage.
06/08/2018
Congress
On a mostly party-line vote, the House rejected an effort bring back the Office of Technology Assessment.
06/08/2018