The Open Approaches Management Office will ensure open architecture principles can be applied throughout the Air Force's acquisition system and not just in small, experimental pockets.
The Internal Revenue Service relaunched Get Transcript, the application that lets users access their tax returns electronically, on Tuesday. It's been about a year since the IRS disabled the web app when hackers stole personal information and used it to access tax returns for roughly 334,000 people.
A Bahrain owned company also saw a increases in government contracting, while GE and Verizon lost federal business.
One of government's leading officials on the Freedom of Information Act says agencies need more open channels of communication with members of public seeking government records.
New numbers from the Office of Personnel Management show that only about 2.7 million people — or roughly 11 percent — out of the 21.5 million victims of the two OPM data breaches last year have enrolled in free identity protection services.
An exclusive Federal News Radio survey found that about 45 percent of public and private sector employees disagreed with the notion that their office or agency was better prepared to protect against future data breaches. Only about 25 percent of respondents said they were confident their workplace understood cyber risks.
Since the Office of Personnel Management's first announcement on June 4, 2015 that the personal information of millions of current and former federal employees had been hacked, a series of milestones and setbacks have occurred in its wake. Here's a look at some of what's happened in the past 12 months.
The Office of Personnel Management experienced some of the biggest changes in the year since hackers stole the data of 22 million current and former federal employees. The cyber attack helped put in motion some of the biggest cybersecurity improvements in the last decade.