Business Continuity for Government Agencies

As federal agencies move to a hybrid, multi-cloud model of computing, they are moving past virtualization, in search of more elastic methods to manage workloads. The incorporation of edge computing can augment clouds and data centers with lightweight and fully functioning applications.

The State Department dealt with a major email outage Thursday morning, but is gradually bringing capabilities back online.

Contractors bidding on the CIO-SP4 procurement from the National Institutes of Health IT Acquisition and Assessment Center said the portal to submit final bids has been problematic.

Most people think of Santa Claus when they think of NORAD. But the North American Aerospace Defense Command has a crucial mission that is ever evolving with new threats.

While the long-awaited bipartisan Infrastructure and Jobs Act represents an unprecedented opportunity to close the digital divide in America, it also sets up an experiment to test the competing philosophies upon which America was built. In an era of rising political polarization, the infrastructure bill reflects an unusual point of agreement across ideology and partisanship.

The list of executives leaving OMB’s Office of the Federal CIO is growing, but don’t take that as a bad sign.

Discovery of the Log4J vulnerability caused much consternation among chief information security officers and everyone else concerned with agency security. For three good reasons.

The award to Booz Allen Hamilton will be used to start testing a prototype of DoD’s zero trust security model, which the agency calls “Thunderdome.”