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The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations’ report on the cybersecurity at eight agencies highlights systemic problems over the last decade and offers several recommendations.
July 01, 2019 -
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The government might have the right to suspend or even debar contractors for three years, but contractors can and do sue when it happens.
June 06, 2019 -
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Technology executive Jeremy Grant gives his thoughts on the current state of biometrics and facial recognition technology.
May 08, 2019 -
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The Homeland Security Department issued a Binding Operational Directive requiring every civilian agency to expand how it manages high value assets.
May 29, 2018 -
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The Office of Management and Budget is seeking comments on a draft policy that promotes shared services for identity credentialing and access management.
April 16, 2018 -
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GSA began alerting vendors on March 22 after it found a third-party changed the financial information of “a limited number” of contractors registered on the SAM.gov portal.
March 26, 2018 -
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Cybersecurity threats seem to remain stubbornly a step ahead of organizations trying to protect themselves. That includes federal agencies.
October 26, 2017 -
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Ariel Friedler, the founder and former CEO of Symplicity Corp., had his debarment overturned by the District Court of D.C.
October 02, 2017 -
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Budget experts say it's only prudent for federal contractors to start preparing now for a possible government shutdown on Oct. 1.
August 14, 2017 -
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The Office of Management and Budget issued two more memos, focusing on personal data breach response requirements and industry and vendor communications.
January 09, 2017 -
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Ari Schwartz, managing director for cybersecurity services at Venable law firm, and former senior director for cybersecurity at the White House, explains why this late in the cyber game so many federal systems still don't have all of the needed controls in place.
March 03, 2016 -
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Vendors and agencies need to improve communication starting with oral debriefings for all contract awards as part of an effort to stem the real and perceived increases of bid-protests, said Rob Burton, a former OFPP deputy administrator and now partner with Venable.
November 09, 2015 -
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Darren Blue is heading over to the Veterans Affairs Department after spending the last seven years at GSA. The FDIC gets a new CIO and NNSA a new chief learning officer.
October 12, 2015 -
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A proposed rule to promote small business subcontracting should be revised to ease the compliance burden on prime contractors. That's the opinion expressed in a letter the American Bar Association's Section of Public Contract Law has sent to the General Services Administration. They claim the rule should be rewritten to allow primes to inquire about a small business's size directly from subcontractors, instead of an unreliable government database. Keir Bancroft is a partner in the government contracts practice at Venable. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the proposed rule and the ABA's objections to it.
August 21, 2015
