Reporter's Notebook
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A draft manager’s amendment obtained by Federal News Network shows the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee also includes $650 million for CISA and $200 million for the USDS.
March 02, 2021 -
Vice Adm. Nancy Norton retired after 34 years in military service, including spending the last three years as the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
March 01, 2021 -
Five teams and 20 individuals will compete on Feb. 25 to be named the best in federal cybersecurity.
February 23, 2021 -
Industry procurement experts say a new ruling by the Court of Federal Claims continues to spark debate over the rule of two requirement for small business contracting.
February 23, 2021 -
DoD’s Joint AI Center is entering into its second phase where it will be more of a service provider than an organization that runs pilot programs.
February 16, 2021 -
The Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency are on the leading edge to do more than test the concepts of zero trust.
February 15, 2021 -
SolarWinds officials are trying to make their case to agencies that they are creating more rigor and security in their development and testing processes.
February 09, 2021 -
The Defense Department continues to test out the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) process with pathfinders and plans to pilot the approach with 10 contracts in 2021.
February 02, 2021 -
The IT Industry Council, the Alliance for Digital Innovation and the Internet Association wrote to DISA questioning its decision to limit RFI responses to its cloud computing program support office acquisition.
February 01, 2021 -
NIST will finalize new publication NISTIR 8276 that will include eight key principles for protecting IT supply chains and release the draft to update SP 800-161, which will includes specific steps for agencies.
January 25, 2021 -
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy released three memos since October to give agencies guidance on buying from AbilityOne firms, emphasizing skills over education in contracts.
January 20, 2021 -
New survey of chief information officers from the Professional Services Council and Attain, and interviews with agency leaders, show they are implementing new technology at a rate that isn’t as far behind industry as it used to be.
January 19, 2021 -
The General Services Administration is keeping contractors on their toes with the release of three acquisition initiatives — Polaris, the new small business governmentwide contract, and two requests for information around emerging technology and professional services.
January 12, 2021 -
DHS has a new chief information security officer, while the State Department has a new chief data officer and HHS names the first chief artificial intelligence officer as these are some of the changes in the federal technology community over the last few weeks.
January 11, 2021 -
New data in the Government Accountability Act’s fiscal 2020 report to Congress on bid protests shows that vendors received some sort of corrective action 51% of the time.
January 11, 2021