Technology
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The Department of Homeland Security has been running 136 sensitive or top-secret programs without the proper authorizations, a watchdog report has found, leaving the agency vulnerable to hackers.
November 19, 2015 -
The Department of Homeland Security has created a timetable to bolster the cybersecurity of civilian government systems, says DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson.
November 19, 2015 -
Dave Mader, the acting deputy director for management and controller at OMB, said negotiations with Congress are going well to get agencies funded before the current continuing resolution ends Dec. 11.
November 18, 2015 -
The 2020 population count is five years away, a blink of an eye for the Census Bureau. It has to make big decisions now on technology for conducting the count and it needs time to test everything out. Those challenges have caught the attention of the Government Accountability Office. Carol Cha, director of IT Acquisition Management Issues at GAO, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin more about the Census' plan.
November 18, 2015 -
Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott said legacy IT systems are causing the biggest technology challenges that agencies face today in cybersecurity, mission effectiveness and mobility. Federal News Radio’s Executive Editor Jason Miller joins tells Emily Kopp on Federal Drive with Tom Temin what's being done about the problem of decades-old systems.
November 18, 2015 -
Agencies have no trouble generating data. But what good is it? The Commerce Department is launching a data service to make its vast stores of information more useful to decision makers. Ian Kalin is the chief data officer at the Commerce. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the new service.
November 18, 2015 -
The Education Department’s inspector general said its white-hat hackers were able to compromise the department’s main enterprise IT system. They gained unfettered access to the network. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Emily Kopp on Federal Drive with Tom Temin, it’s just one reason the department's cybersecurity posture got an unfavorable review.
November 18, 2015 -
The Defense Department has no inventory on cyber access points in its buildings and is under-funding building maintenance, leaving military installations open to cyber attacks.
November 18, 2015
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