The General Services Administration has established new controls for its online registration platform for government contractors and federal assistance requests in an effort to build on measures implemented earlier this year to address
Budget negotiators in the House and Senate are finalizing a “tentative” agreement that seeks to align the upper and lower chambers’ versions of a fiscal year 2016 budget, Politico reported Wednesday. Rachael Bade
MoreElaine Buckberg, deputy assistant secretary for policy coordination at the Treasury Department, has highlighted the government’s work to build up public-private partnerships in infrastructure investments in order to drive U.S. economic growth. Buckberg
MoreThe National Science Foundation states that research and development spending among 40 federally funded R&D centers declined in fiscal 2013 compared to fiscal 2012 based on a National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
MoreThe Office of Management and Budget is working to boost federal cybersecurity and mitigate potential data breaches and other cyber threats through a review of agency cybersecurity programs and dissemination of contracting best practices. Federal
MoreThe Department of Homeland Security plans to open a cybersecurity office in Silicon Valley as part of its push to tap into the region’s technology talent pool and build up DHS’Â cyber programs,
MoreWillie May, acting director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has urged business leaders at “Board Agenda: CYBER” conference to adopt the agency’s cybersecurity framework to manage cyber risks. May said in
MoreU.S. Army officials say that updates to the Distributed Common Ground System – Army intelligence tool will work to address identified challenges in complexity and ease of use, the Army News Service reported Wednesday. C.
MoreFederal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott said the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act will pave the way for government CIOs to shape and align technology spending, Nextgov reported Thursday. Frank Konkel writes that Scott’s experience
MoreAdm. Paul Zukunft, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, has outlined the service’s three-pronged cybersecurity strategy as well as other upcoming investments and operational initiatives in an interview published Tuesday on Federal Times. “Our
MoreThe Government Accountability Office‘s 2015 Annual Report on facilitating efficiency and effectiveness in government indicates 66 action steps that the White House or Congress can take to address 24 identified opportunity and improvement
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