Darren Blue is heading over to the Veterans Affairs Department after spending the last seven years at GSA. The FDIC gets a new CIO and NNSA a new chief learning officer.
While industry is excited about the Internet of Things, agencies have shown they've been interconnecting systems and applications for years. But the Privacy Act is standing in the government's way to go further, some say.
Darren Blue is heading over to the Veterans Affairs Department after spending the last seven years at GSA. The FDIC gets a new CIO and NNSA a new chief learning officer.
A year in the making, the General Services Administration launched a consolidated professional services schedule contract on Oct. 1 to merge eight multiple award contracts into one.
The Senate's Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would give DHS emergency powers during a cyber attack on federal or contractor networks holding federal data. Some say the provision is too vague.
The rate of mergers and acquisitions in industry isn't just impacting the Defense Department, but civilian agencies as well.
Eric Hysen joins the Homeland Security Department from the U.S. Digital Services Office.
Section 209 of the Senate's Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would give DHS emergency powers during a cyber attack on federal or contractor networks holding federal data. Some say the provision is too vague.
In this week's "Inside the Reporter's Notebook," Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) held a field hearing in Austin, Texas last week to better understand how agencies are implementing cloud computing.
GSA made an award to Booz Allen Hamilton under the OASIS multiple award contract on behalf of the Defense Department for a host of global threat mitigation services.
There is a growing interest on Capitol Hill to codify some aspects of cloud computing, including the security authorization program known as FedRAMP.
Congressman Will Hurd (R-Texas) held a field hearing in San Antonio, Texas last week to better understand how agencies are implementing cloud computing.
In this week's "Inside the DoD Reporter's Notebook," the Army hopes the project will help answer some of its lingering questions the potential savings of transitioning to commercial cloud offerings.
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, seems to have a habit of going off-message with details of the Office of Personnel Management data breach.
In this week's Inside the Reporter's Notebook, as the Office of Management and Budget finalizes new FISMA metrics for 2016, agencies and IGs continue to struggle with a disconnect over risk versus compliance.