Workforce
The Inspector General at the Office of Personnel Management found that the agency wasn't requiring mask-wearing and failed to notify employees of COVID cases during the height of the pandemic.
05/14/2021
Congress
The proposed commission would have investigative and subpoena powers and would hold hearings to produce a report by the end of 2021.
05/14/2021
IT Modernization
The General Services Administration is soliciting feedback from industry on a planned new blanket purchase agreement to provide cloud infrastructure, storage, software and services to federal agencies and state and local governments.
05/13/2021
Acquisition
Government procurement practitioners discussed equity and procurement at the Code for America summit, as leaders across the federal enterprise look to measure and expand inclusiveness in public spending.
05/13/2021
Veterans Affairs
Recent additions to the backlog of veterans affected by Agent Orange are going to add to an expected spike in the backlog of pending benefits claims at the Veterans Benefits Administration, but agency officials are still aiming to get the levels closer to pre-pandemic numbers by the end of fiscal year 2022.
05/13/2021
Cybersecurity
Questions about whether TSA is rightly positioned to oversee cybersecurity for natural gas and oil pipelines are resurfacing in the wake of the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline.
05/12/2021
Steven Kelman discusses known-but-neglected risks on Washington Technology's Project 38 podcast.
05/12/2021
Defense
President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Defense Department's intelligence and security office, Ronald Moultrie, appears to have a smooth path to Senate confirmation thanks in large part to his cybersecurity experience.
05/12/2021
Cybersecurity
Brandon Wales, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said the funding would go toward expanding CISA's incident response teams with additional contractors and developing new technologies to be used by those teams.
05/11/2021
Comment
Developing connections across the TMF and with larger IT investment programs will yield sustained positive outcomes for the government.
05/11/2021
FCW Perspectives
Improved technologies and growing threats have agencies actively pursuing dynamic and context-driven security.
05/10/2021
Workforce
The Biden administration extended the deadline for federal agencies to implement portions of a Trump-era executive order aimed putting less reliance on educational attainment in federal hiring.
05/09/2021
Defense
House appropriators lamented the absence of a dedicated space acquisition chief, challenging the new administration to make a nomination soon.
05/09/2021
Workforce
Four former government officials who played key roles in the first impeachment of former president Donald Trump discussed their experiences during a Public Service Recognition Week event.
05/06/2021
Congress
A group of House Democrats want the Biden administration to pick up the pace on implementation of the Integrated Digital Experience Act.
05/06/2021