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Nakasone says one of the major challenges that needs addressing is how quickly military forces rotate in and out of CYBERCOM.
Barbara Morton, VA’s deputy chief experience officer, says the department’s designation as a HISP by the Office of Management and Budget “has been a really important driver" for customer service improvements.
Illegal fishing harms the legal fishing industry and endangers the marine ecosystem. That is why the Coast Guard and other agencies spend so much time trying to detect and stop it. Now the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is launching a prize challenge for data-based ways to get on top of illegal fishing.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is telling the White House and Congress that implementing these plans is necessary to keep USPS from running out of cash in the coming years.
A cloud computing security program established in 2011, continues to present difficulties to government and industry: FedRAMP, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, is a way of establishing that cloud computing service companies are secure. But more than 12 years in, the program still has cost uncertainty. And agencies don't always use FedRAMP approved vendors, according to the Government Accountability Office.
This decision, coming in the wake of a lawsuit filed in August 2023, demonstrates a responsiveness to the evolving needs and rights of all veterans.
Sometimes paperwork is just paper. A contractor submitted three bids for a contract to remove medical waste at facilities operated by the Health and Human Services. Only the middle of the three bids included an attachment. When it won the contract on the third bid, the company figured, the terms in the attachment applied. The government disagreed.
DoD officials plan to have a call with the industry soon to clarify the latest FedRAMP equivalency memo.
In today's Federal Newscast: The cybersecurity threat from Chinese infiltrators continues to grow, according to an outgoing Army general. The Department of Veterans Affairs got more than 46,000 homeless veterans into permanent housing last year. And employees at Social Security headquarters are ordered to increase in-person work, starting in April.
VA officials say the department this year is focused on increasing veteran access to VA care using mostly the health care workforce it already has, "rather than on nationwide growth in total employees.”
Democrats are once again turning their attention to next year’s federal pay raise, but under the current continuing resolution, many agencies are trying to figure out how to fund the already higher pay rates for their employees.
HHS is moving toward a zero trust architecture, collecting information on where it may be vulnerable and refining its approach.
Things are moving fast on the federal procurement front. New small business rules, GSA data gathering to club contractors with, all while appropriations seem to be forever in the future.