Technology
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A major piece of cybersecurity legislation will soon make its way to the Senate floor. The Senate will likely take up the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act after next week's recess. The bill is supposed to let agencies and private companies share cyber threat information with the government. Federal News Radio Reporter Nicole Ogrysko told In Depth with Francis Rose what's coming next for the bill and why industry isn't convinced.
October 08, 2015 -
The EINSTEIN Act of 2015 authorized the Department of Homeland Security to deploy the EINSTEIN 3A program across the federal government. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said he wants Congress to authorize EINSTEIN as the Act does. Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Information Technology subcommittee, is the sponsor of the EINSTEIN Act. He told In Depth with Francis Rose how the EINSTEIN Act would empower DHS.
October 08, 2015 -
Tom Allin, the Veterans Affairs Department’s chief veterans experience officer, developed an approach that lets employees take a different perspective when developing customer service initiatives.
October 08, 2015 -
A major focus for the National Protection and Programs Directorate reorganization is unifying the directorate's physical and cyber infrastructures.
October 08, 2015 -
Communication between government and industry is improving, but still isn't great according to leaders across the contracting space. The importance of building the lines of communication is one of three lessons Casey Coleman wishes she would have learned before she left government. Casey is group vice president of Unisys Federal Systems Civilian Agencies and former chief information officer at the General Services Administration. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the three lessons on the On Point blog.
October 07, 2015 -
The CIA launched a new Digital Innovation Directorate on Oct. 1 as part of a major agency-wide reorganization. The goal of the DDI is to accelerate the use of digital and innovative technologies in everything the agency does. Sean Roche is the DDI's deputy director. He tells executive editor Jason Miller the immediate and longer-term impact the new directorate will have on the organization.
October 07, 2015 -
The new Directorate for Digital Innovation launched Oct. 1 with a goal of integrating mission and enterprise technology to spur the development of tools and techniques.
October 07, 2015 -
Senate Select Intelligence Committee chairs Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said they expect the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act will reach the Senate floor for debate in about 10 working days. They're both open to changes to the bill, as long as they don't alter the basic core of the legislation.
October 07, 2015
