The Department of Labor (DOL) has released new guidelines on ensuring the cybersecurity of systems that are key to protecting $9.3 trillion in retirement benefits for over 34 million participants in contribution
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is deploying a Centers of Excellence approach to information technology modernization to simplify organizational operations such as financial management, Federal News Network reported Friday. HUD’s IT
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Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 Award recipient Mark Esper issued a statement on Friday announcing the nation’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty due to Russia’s “sustained and repeated violations” of the
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The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are looking to fill director and deputy director positions to manage a $10 billion joint effort to migrate electronic health records to a cloud environment,
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a draft guide for incorporating cybersecurity into an internet-of-things network. NIST said Thursday that the “Core Cybersecurity Feature Baseline for Securable IoT Devices” guide provides
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The Government Accountability Office released a report stating that the Defense Intelligence Agency failed to properly oversee the Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence program aiming to diversify the pool of applicants for IC
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The Senate has confirmed Michael Kratsios, previously the deputy U.S. chief technology officer and deputy assistant to the president, as the new federal CTO, The Hill reported Thursday. Kratsios, a 2019 Wash100
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Kevin Walsh, Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act executive for the Government Accountability Office, said the scorecard will deploy new data center optimization metrics by the Office of Management and Budget, FCW reported
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Vice Adm. Michael Gilday told senators during a confirmation hearing that he will prioritize cybersecurity and defense industrial base protection if confirmed as chief of naval operations, Fifth Domain reported Thursday.
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Bill Zielinski, acting assistant commissioner of General Services Administrations' office of information technology category, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the government is “actively working” to reallocate spectrum for 5G
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is rolling out a pilot program that will enable clinicians to better access patients’ medical information through the Blue Button 2.0 Medicare data platform.
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