NASA
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In the last couple of weeks, GAO has reissued reminders on open recommendations. It's a long list.
May 14, 2020 -
Jeff Seaton is the new acting CIO at NASA while Jay Huie leaves GSA after 10 years and Vera Ashworth joins GSA after spending the last 15 years in the private sector.
May 04, 2020 -
For a review of NASA's top technology priorities and how it's getting them done through the pandemic, Chief Technologist Douglas Terrier spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 29, 2020 -
NASA employees submitted more than 200 ideas to an agency-led crowdsourcing initiative designed to solicit coronavirus response solutions. A few of the ideas, including prototypes for two new ventilation and breathing devices, are already under review for emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.
April 27, 2020 -
NASA is working on an agency-wide RPA security plan that will give internal systems administrators all the details they need about an unattended bot’s security vetting.
April 21, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, agencies are starting to make some initial preparations for employees to return to the office.
April 20, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, 403 new troops were diagnosed with COVID-19 in one day.
April 17, 2020 -
Joanne Woytek, the NASA SEWP program director, said the governmentwide acquisition contract grew 25% in March as compared to the previous month and saw 40% more orders going through the system.
April 17, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Pentagon says servicemembers who get special incentive payments for hazardous assignments can still get their bonuses – even if the pandemic is stopping them from carrying out those missions.
April 10, 2020 -
GSA and DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told agencies that the Zoom for Government platform, which runs on a government community cloud and has received a Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) moderate level approval under the cloud security program known as FedRAMP, is an agency’s best option.
April 08, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a Supreme Court ruling finds federal employees have a lower bar to prove age discrimination in personnel actions, compared with the private sector.
April 07, 2020 -
In the search to understand the coronavirus and its implications, the government is marshaling much of its supercomputer capacity.
March 31, 2020 -
Requests already coming into consortium focusing the nation's supercomputing capacity on the coronavirus.
March 30, 2020 -
Renee Wynn, the NASA chief information officer, is retiring after about 30 years in government and is leaving the space agency on track to fix long-standing IT governance challenges.
March 27, 2020 -
Amid all the confusion and mixed messages. agencies like Voice of America, the Securities and Exchange Commission and NASA are sending regular, reassuring updates to their employees during the coronavirus pandemic.
March 24, 2020