Reporter's Notebook
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The FBI, NARA and the Navy see turnover at the executive levels. The Navy gets a new director of information dominance who is allowed to look at classified data.
September 21, 2015 -
As OMB finalizes new FISMA metrics for 2016, agencies and IGs continue to struggle with a disconnect over risk versus compliance.
September 21, 2015 -
The Joint IT Single Service Provider-Pentagon is moving toward full operational capability and the lessons from the effort will influence similar efforts in the future.
September 21, 2015 -
DoT CIO Richard McKinney said he's not buying any new hardware and will not approve IT spending plans unless they get the program off of legacy infrastructure.
September 21, 2015 -
In this week's Inside the Reporter's Notebook, the White House will launch the initial operating capability of the cyber threat intelligence integration center (CTIIC), just in time for cybersecurity awareness month in October.
September 14, 2015 -
Some State Department IT officials may have jumped the gun in issuing an RFI for a cyber playbook.
September 14, 2015 -
The Federal Communications Commission's major technology modernization effort hit a huge roadblock, but the IT staff and contractor persevered.
September 14, 2015 -
USA Today found that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) experienced 19 successful attacks during the four-year period.
September 14, 2015 -
Michael Daniel, the White House cybersecurity coordinator, said the new Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) will work behind the scenes to connect the cyber dots.
September 14, 2015 -
In this week's Inside the DoD Reporter's Notebook, a major element of the Defense Department’s new program to better detect insider threats will be up and running by next month.
September 14, 2015 -
The federal technology community is seeing a lot of key senior executives switch roles or leave government, including new officials in charge of data analytics at GSA and EPA.
September 08, 2015 -
A request for information to update the IT schedule receives initial positive reviews, but modernizing the largest multiple award contract has never been easy.
September 08, 2015 -
GAO says contracting officers should make a new determination of responsibility if a company is sold while bidding on a contract.
September 08, 2015 -
The federal technology community is seeing a lot of key senior executives switch roles or leave government, including new officials in charge of data analytics at GSA and EPA.
September 08, 2015 -
Veterans Affairs wants to make it easier for veterans to find its services. One suggestion by Secretary Bob McDonald is to create a veterans.gov website. But there's a problem. The Labor Department owns that URL. Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller writes about this situation in his weekly feature, "Inside the Reporter's Notebook." He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss a potential solution to Labor and VA's problem.
August 31, 2015