The White House sent its legislative proposal to Capitol Hill and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) plans on introducing legislation based on that proposal this week.
As the White House decides who should be the first federal chief information security officer, current and former federal cyber executives offer insights into what the role should look like.
Rep. Derek Kilmer is set to introduce a new bill that would change all references to E-Government administrator to the Federal CIO.
Terry Halvorsen, the Defense Department’s chief information officer, now plans to be much more “prescriptive” about what each military service and DoD component must do to rein in their costs.
Robert Silvers becomes the first permanent assistant secretary for cyber policy at DHS in about a year.
The Defense Department is taking a serious look at overhauling its process for accrediting commercial cloud computing products as secure-enough for military use.
The Social Security Administration is pairing up with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to ensure that social security benefit recipients over the age of 90 are, in fact, still alive.
Leaders of R&D components of DHS detailed technological projects and innovation processes at a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee budgetary hearing.