Reporter's Notebook
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As agencies enter the final month of the fiscal year, spending is expected to increase significantly, especially through multiple award contracts.
August 31, 2015 -
The departments of Veterans Affairs and Labor could use a long-established approach to making services for veterans easier to find if they'd only remember it's there.
August 31, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management is all-in for the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program (CDM) to improve cybersecurity. OPM is among the first group of agencies to get new cyber tools and services. But CDM’s rate of implementation in general is causing a problem for the agency. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss why OPM, and potentially other agencies, are being put in a tough situation.
August 27, 2015 - Inside the Reporter’s Notebook: Cyber sprint’s before and after picture gives reasons for hope, fear
A new document obtained by Federal News Radio shows just how bad in shape agencies were in terms of cybersecurity as of June, and just how far they came over the summer.
August 24, 2015 -
NASA could be soon looking for another chief information officer. Sources say Larry Sweet has told his staff he plans on retiring at the end of the calendar year.
August 24, 2015 -
The time to move from contract award to full implementation under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program will force agencies to decide whether to spend money on new tools or wait for those coming from DHS.
August 24, 2015 -
A new document obtained by Federal News Radio shows just how bad in shape agencies were in terms of cybersecurity as of June, and just how far they came over the summer.
August 21, 2015 -
Homeland Security will give eight agencies a detailed look at the health of their networks and systems later this month. DHS will launch the first set of agency-wide dashboards under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program. In his biweekly feature, "Inside the Reporter’s Notebook," executive editor Jason Miller writes about the agency's plans to get pick up the pace of continuous diagnostics and mitigation. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more.
August 17, 2015 -
There is a little more clarity about the mystery of Barry West, the seemingly now-former chief information officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. West’s LinkedIn page says he left the FDIC in this month and also started at the Mason Harriman Group this month.
August 17, 2015 -
The first iteration of the cybersecurity dashboard under the continuous diagnostic and mitigation (CDM) is scheduled to be released this month.
August 17, 2015 -
The Defense Department’s program to let employees use smartphones on the secret network is becoming more popular than ever imagined.
August 17, 2015 -
GSA, on behalf of the Defense Information Systems Agency, made a $296 million award for email-as-a-service to Dell Federal. GSA made the award to Dell June 19.
August 17, 2015 -
The real question GSA is trying to gather information on is whether the current cyber and information assurance SINs just need to be improved or if a new one is needed.
August 17, 2015 -
The first iteration of the cybersecurity dashboard under the continuous diagnostic and mitigation (CDM) is scheduled to be released this month.
August 17, 2015 Can senior federal officials simply disappear? Judging from some recent departures of high-profile executives, you'd think so. Former Interior Business Center director Joe Ward joins the ever-growing list of senior executives who have moved or changed jobs or have been put on leave with little transparency from their agency. In his biweekly feature, "Inside the Reporter’s Notebook," executive editor Jason Miller writes about why the uncertainty of the whereabouts of Ward, and others like him, are part of a growing problem in government. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
July 27, 2015