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Recent House votes included bills on the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Energy, while committees on natural resources have made progress on a bill to cut down on national parks maintenance.
October 03, 2018 -
Federal CIO Suzette Kent said OMB will release an updated Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) policy in the coming weeks to help agencies more easily move to secure cloud services.
September 24, 2018 -
More than 3,800 civilian federal employees, and more than 9,700 military personnel are currently deployed to help respond to Hurricane Florence.
September 14, 2018 -
More than 200 former national security professionals want answers from the Office of Personnel Management and the Director of National Intelligence about how and why USPS released the confidential national security questionnaire of congressional candidate Abigail Spanberger.
August 31, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Publishing Offices takes another stab at finding a vendor to print and mail 2020 census forms.
August 17, 2018 -
The Department of Energy doesn’t discuss nuclear material that has been lost or stolen, nor does it appears to have relatively few accountability measures in place to deal with problems when they happen.
August 07, 2018 -
The Technology Modernization Fund Board offered further details to on what they are looking for in projects to agencies and industry.
July 30, 2018 -
At last Congress goes along with an IT modernizing revolving fund ... but the horses mostly stay away from the trough.
July 23, 2018 -
The Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources wanted more explanation for the Energy and Interior department's plans under the White House government reorganization proposal.
July 20, 2018 -
Federal infrastructure projects have stalled around the country due to cumbersome permitting processes and funding challenges, which is why a bipartisan law was enacted two years ago to speed things up. Now the authors are hoping to amend that legislation with the Federal Permitting Reform and Jobs Act.
July 06, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the State Department plans to spend almost $1 billion to modernize four key services under the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
July 03, 2018 -
A former White House IT official tapped by the Trump administration to head a new Energy Department cybersecurity office says she intends to make the agency a more competitive recruiter for top talent.
June 26, 2018 -
The House Appropriations Committee approved the Financial Services and General Government fiscal 2019 spending bill with additional money for the three governmentwide funds.
June 18, 2018 -
OMB announced USDA, Energy and HUD earned approval from the TMF Board to get some of the $100 million in additional funding to push ongoing IT modernization projects over the top.
June 08, 2018 -
President Donald Trump's second executive order offers new limitations on official time, as well as restrictions to federal union use of agency office space and property.
May 31, 2018