Analytics in Government

Mark Borkowski, the assistant commissioner in the Office of Acquisition and the chief acquisition officer at CBP in the Homeland Security Department said he is developing a new policy to improve how the agency manages supply chain risks.

The covid pandemic has produced whole new data streams from infection reports, contact tracing and vaccine-related issues. Rich Bryant, the chief technical officer for healthcare at Veritas said the learnings from the pandemic will be pivotal, after it recedes, to improving the metrics associated with underserved populations and lowering healthcare costs.

Log4j, the most visible cybersecurity threat since Solar Winds, has organizations scrambling to find and fix instances of certain software.

In today’s Federal Newscast, a Government Accountability Office report on the federal response to the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange exploits, shows agencies have a lot of work to do.

The agency will start accepting and processing 2021 tax returns on Jan. 24, more than two weeks earlier than when it started last year’s filing season.

Rep. John Katko (R-Ny.) wants to make CISA a $5 billion-a-year agency. He plans to spend the next year studying how to get it there.

For the past several months, there has been a frantic scrambling by all stakeholders involved in the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program to determine the best path forward to secure the nation’s supply chain.

Karen Evans, former chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security, joins Aileen Black on this week’s Leaders and Legends to share important leadership lessons and advice on how to build strong teams.