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Four new special item numbers for cybersecurity services sound like great opportunities. But, Alex Major, a partner at the law firm McCarter & English, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin SINS could get some contractors in a lot of trouble.
Cybersecurity is a SIN, a special item number that is. The General Services Administration established several SINs under schedule 70 for cybersecurity services it believes are in high demand. For an update how these special item numbers are doing, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Mary Davie, the GSA's assistant commissioner for Integrated Technology Services.
If things are working so well, what's the rush to transition when there's no real, hard deadline?
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Nearly one year after Congress passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, agencies say they're still looking for more buy-in from from more private sector companies to share and receive cyber threat indicator information with them. Meanwhile, the Justice Department, FBI and Homeland Security Department are trying to perfect their own information sharing practices as an incentive for companies to partner with them.
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Maria Roat is leaving after two years as chief technology officer at the Transportation Department.
Monzy Merza, the director of cyber research and chief security evangelist for Splunk, makes the case for agencies to invest in training and educating its cyber workforce as much as tools and automation.
Columbia Technology Partner’s Ready to Prime host Allen Scott speaks to the new president of AFCEA’s Central Maryland Chapter, Jennifer Havermann.
The Air Force says it’s ready to start training at least some of its enlisted members to fly aircraft. Classes are set to begin next month, and the graduates would be the first enlisted pilots in the Air Force’s 69-year history.
The Pentagon is developing a secure cloud computing architecture that will create a standard approach for boundary and application level security for commercial services.
President Barack Obama's nominee to take charge of U.S. Strategic Command told the Senate Armed Forces Committee that the Pentagon needs to double down on its strategic advantage in space and cyberspace to stay ahead of its adversaries.
The Defense Department issued a RFI to industry outlining 12 functional areas it wants to upgrade using government-owned and commercial technologies.
A recent cybersecurity challenge sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency pitted three company teams, each fielding autonomous bug-hunting machines. The winner was a Pittsburgh company called For-All-Secure. Tyler Nighwander, ForAllSecure's bi-directional engineer, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain how it all works.
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