Technology
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Chief information officers know more now about long standing issues with federal IT security thanks to the cyber breaches at the Office of Personnel Management. Those problems date back to the 1990s when cyber threats started to change and agencies didn't try to keep up. Richard Spires is CEO of Resilient Network Systems and former chief information officer at the Homeland Security Department. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about three big problems with federal IT security.
August 27, 2015 -
GSA officials want feedback on new digital tools designed to help acquisition workers cut back on cost and time when choosing contracts.
August 27, 2015 -
Shana Simmons, a GEOINT Integration Capabilities Officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said six apps are going through a commercial-like process to gain approval and become available to buy through NGA’s app store.
August 27, 2015 -
Three house lawmakers are asking GAO to evaluate the CEDCaP program after the Census Bureau's last IT Census project ran billions over budget.
August 27, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management is all-in for the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program (CDM) to improve cybersecurity. OPM is among the first group of agencies to get new cyber tools and services. But CDM’s rate of implementation in general is causing a problem for the agency. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss why OPM, and potentially other agencies, are being put in a tough situation.
August 27, 2015 -
Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote to the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center, the Pentagon's Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the Interior Department's National Business Center and the General Service Administration's National Payroll Branch asking for details on their reporting of wage and tax statements in an effort to ensure tax refunds are going to the right people.
August 27, 2015 -
Some missing controls at the Department of Homeland Security are keeping the agency from knowing everything it needs to know about how its employees are using charge cards. Mark Bell is assistant inspector general for audit at the Office of Inspector General at the Homeland Security Department. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the scope of the charge card program at the agency.
August 26, 2015 The intelligence community and private industry are pooling their efforts to fight rising threats to national cybersecurity.
August 26, 2015
