National Security Agency

Intel community, awash in data, seeks in-demand talent to make sense of it

The intelligence community, tasked with analyzing data and more raw intelligence than ever before, is looking to build out its workforce to keep up with…

Hiring/Retention

White House developing cyber workforce strategy to be more ‘action oriented’

Cybersecurity

NIST

NSA releases ‘post-quantum’ guidance for national security system owners, operators and vendors

Defense Industry

Lisa Meincke of Arlington Heights prepares herself to receive her first COVID-19 vaccination administered by National Guard personal Erika O'Meara of Scott Air Force base at Triton College, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in River Grove, Ill. This was opening day for the mass vaccinations sponsored by the Cook County Department of Public Health. (Mark Welsh/Daily Herald via AP)

Pentagon loosens some of its COVID-19 restrictions

Federal Newscast

The Biden administration’s aggressive anti-trust approach includes federal contractors

Contracting

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

FILE - This March 27, 2020 file photo shows the signature of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill in Washington. Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Why the National Security Agency overpaid contractors during the height of the pandemic

Agency Oversight

Zero Trust Cyber Exchange: NSA’s Kevin Bingham on innovating in a legacy environment

Cybersecurity

NSA quietly re-awarded its Wild and Stormy cloud contract

Reporter's Notebook

AI (Artificial Intelligence) concept. Communication network.

Intel agencies advance artificial intelligence in patches, struggle with big breakthroughs

Intelligence Community

President Joe Biden speaks about status of the country's fight against COVID-19 in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, March 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden admin. hopes to make government services more inclusive for transgender people

Federal Newscast

CISA highlights new reporting hotline amid warnings about potential Russian cyber attacks

Inside the IC

How to button up a cybersecurity risk on every computer in the government

Often attachments with malicious payloads come in the popular Adobe PDF format. Recently, the National Security Agency issued guidance for how to configure…

Cybersecurity

FILE - In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Transportation Security Administration officers wear protective masks at a security screening area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. The Biden administration says it is moving to increase the pay and union rights for security screeners at the nation’s airports. The Department of Homeland Security directed the acting head of the TSA to come up with a plan within 90 days to raise the pay of the screeners and expand their rights to collective bargaining. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Exposed to COVID-19 on the job? New website lets you join class-action lawsuit for hazard pay

In today’s Federal Newscast, federal employees who were exposed to COVID-19 while working can now join a class-action lawsuit.

Federal Newscast

Ukrainian servicemen sit atop armored personnel carriers driving on a road in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a military operation in Ukraine and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to

Ukraine: It’s both professional and personal

Federal Report

Invasion prompts all-of-government response, but the effects are personal, too.