The National Security Agency’s chief information officer may be unsure of what they’re supposed to be doing with attention being pulled disproportionately toward cybersecurity issues,…
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As we reflect on where and how the federal government is implementing the business discipline of customer experience, we find that we are at the…
A little more than a year after being officially established, the Homeland Security Department’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, or CWMD, is looking to…
The Army’s Criminal Investigation Command conducts extensive probes into threats against the military branch and its personnel. This week, insiders unveiled their intent to glean…
The National Security Agency issued an advisory with technical guidance for procuring and securing systems reliant on cloud service providers amid a push for the…
With FedBizOpps shuttered and shifted to beta.SAM.gov, the General Services Administration is readying for the next major transition to its centralized federal contracting site: moving…
A New York Times investigation into a facial recognition startup that’s amassed billions of personally identifying photos and is pitching and sharing its database with…
Artificial intelligence-based (AI) programs are quickly improving at writing convincingly on many topics, for virtually no cost. It’s likely in a few years they’ll be…
As we charge ahead into the ‘20s, I imagine I join many of you in looking back on the past decade and ahead at what…
The latest publication in a long line of reports drawing attention to the State Department’s failure to secure its information technology-dependent systems from cyberattacks reflects…
Lawmakers in the House and Senate have introduced bills to study the correlation between maternal mortality—mothers that die due to complications from pregnancy, including up…
Americans were pestered by robocalls at unparalleled rates in 2019—and according to a comprehensive review of the annual spikes in call volume, phones in Washington…
Amazon Web Services asked a federal judge to halt work under the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract for the duration of its legal…
The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed changes to the federal grants process to better support the administration’s management priorities. The Office of Management and Budget…
In March 2008, as Facebook was speeding toward 100 million users and emerging as the next big tech company, it announced an important hire. Sheryl…
In the wake of the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general and Iran’s retaliatory missile strike, should the U.S. be concerned about the cyber…
The Pentagon launched its Joint Artificial Intelligence Center in 2018 to strategically unify and accelerate AI applications across the nation’s defense and military enterprise. Insiders…
The newly reconstituted background investigations agency based out of the Pentagon has achieved a years-long goal of reaching a “steady state” of pending security clearance…
A year after passage of a law requiring federal agencies to improve the quality and accessibility of digital services, the General Services Administration on Wednesday…
Merit Board Offers Advice to Fix Reskilling Program That Hasn’t Translated to Any New Job Placements
The Merit Systems Protections Board last week offered up a potential solution to the problem plaguing the Trump administration’s cyber reskilling pilot program, which led…