Reporter's Notebook
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The Veterans Affairs Department issued a new policy and decision support tree for contracting officers to ensure they are meeting the “rule of two” as mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Kingdomware case.
August 15, 2016 -
Experts say the Office of Management and Budget’s update to the circular will greatly reduce agency pushback against using smart identity cards and other identity authentication and verification technologies.
August 15, 2016 -
Dave Nelson is leaving the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to be the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s CIO while Karen DeSalvo left her role as coordinator for health IT to focus full time on being acting assistant secretary for health.
August 15, 2016 -
DHS, EPA, 18F and others are developing separate contracts for dev/ops services, creating both a much needed culture change, but possibly also another area where contract proliferation and duplication reign.
August 08, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget updated Circular A-130 with the requirement for agencies to focus on risk management when deciding on how to protect networks and systems.
August 08, 2016 -
President Barack Obama signed the MEGABYTE Act into law, and GSA released two new shared services offerings to keep the “slow” summer months hopping.
August 08, 2016 -
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) is supporting both the centralized and decentralized approaches to address the need to get rid of legacy technology systems.
July 25, 2016 -
The Pentagon will help contracting officers and vendors understand what it’s buying and who is doing the buying through a new acquisition portal.
July 25, 2016 -
A new partnership between Vencore and the George Mason University aims to develop a cyber risk assessment methodology and tool to help agencies and other organizations analyze the value of the data and determine how best to mitigate potential cyber threats.
July 25, 2016 -
GSA awarded two task orders to ManTech and Knowledge Consulting Group to provide continuous monitoring-as-a-service and privileged management services under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program.
July 18, 2016 -
Lawmakers are offering the Modernizing Obsolete and Vulnerable Enterprise IT (MOVE-IT) Act as an alternative to the White House’s $3.1 billion IT Modernization Fund proposal to help agencies update technology networks and applications.
July 18, 2016 -
Jeh Johnson, the Homeland Security Department’s secretary, issued his second BOD in late June requiring agencies to work with DHS to ensure they are protecting their high-valued assets as required under the Cybersecurity Implementation Plan (CSIP).
July 18, 2016 -
Kate Josephs is leaving the PIC after two years, while NASA gets a new CISO in Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz.
July 18, 2016 -
Northrop Grumman filed its second protest over the Homeland Security Department’s decision to award Raytheon the DOMino contract.
July 11, 2016 -
A new Office of Federal Procurement Policy memo and proposed rule by the FAR Council are part of the administration’s ongoing efforts to change the way agencies buy products and services.
July 11, 2016