Reporter's Notebook
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Matt Hartman, the deputy executive assistant director for cyber at CISA, said without EINSTEIN, there may be departments today that still did not know they were victims of the SolarWinds campaign.
May 19, 2021 -
Former and current DHS and White House cyber experts say the EINSTEIN intrusion detection, prevention initiative has lived up to most expectations.
May 18, 2021 -
Federal CIO Clare Martorana told Federal News Network that the TMF board will receive additional resources to review proposals if necessary.
May 11, 2021 -
Jeff Koses, GSA’s senior procurement executive, wrote in a blog post that the Transactional Data Reporting pilot proved it’s a worthy replacement for the dreaded Price Reduction Clause.
May 10, 2021 -
Few agencies have been able to take advantage of working capital funds for IT modernization as granted under the MGT Act.
May 03, 2021 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency required agencies to take action against a major problem with the virtual private network software from Pulse Secure.
April 27, 2021 -
GAO told the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations that CIO authorities improved across five agencies over the course of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard.
April 20, 2021 -
The last 15 years of federal agency IT modernization seems to be culminating under the Biden administration due to a perfect combination of technology maturation, pandemic's impact and real funding from Congress.
April 19, 2021 -
President Joe Biden plans to nominate two former members of the NSA to lead CISA and the new White House cyber director office.
April 13, 2021 -
Two agencies are attempting to improve the Contractor Performance Assessment Retrieval System (CPARS) process, which many say isn’t working as intended.
April 12, 2021 -
Vendors on the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions program say solicitations and awards picked up pace over the last few months, but some are taking much longer than necessary putting the transition at risk.
April 08, 2021 -
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body named Matt Travis, the former deputy director at CISA, as its new CEO as part of the program’s continued growth.
April 05, 2021 -
The General Services Administration released a request for information to gather feedback on its new services contract called BIC MAC—Best-in-Class Multiple Award Contract.
March 09, 2021 -
The Senate approved $650 million for agency cybersecurity upgrades, and another $350 million for the U.S. Digital Service and the Federal Citizen Services Fund to address workforce and other modernization needs.
March 08, 2021 -
New chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee could help break the 20-year IT modernization blockade.
March 02, 2021