FCW Insider: July 20

Sen. Peters: Agencies should publicly share reopening plans

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's ranking Democrat joins union officials and House lawmakers in asking for transparency.

GSA's Stanton faces busy fall

Telecom, small business contracts, e-commerce platform are top of mind for the head of GSA's Office of Information Technology Category.

Outgoing Army tech chief: CIO split was 'right decision at the right time'

Army CIO/G6 Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford said the move will allow the new CIO to focus more on big data, cloud migrations.

Tech-centric border security bypassed to push wall construction

Both technology- and personnel-driven efforts have been given short shrift as border agencies focused on wall construction, an inspector general study found.

Virginia issues first statewide safety standards to address COVID in the workplace

Governor says new rules are response to OSHA's alleged lack of action.

IRS gets high marks for fraud and identity theft initiatives

A layered approach combining software, public-private partnerships and innovative pilot programs have saved billions of dollars from ending up in the hands of criminals and fraudsters, according to a new audit.

Quick Hits

*** The Army is advancing its enterprise-IT-as-a-service pilot program with plans to enter phase three of development by the end of the fiscal year.

Ron Pontius, deputy to the head of Army Cyber Command, said the Army was progressing the EITAAS pilots initiative that it prepped for last year using other transaction authority contracts totaling $33.5 million.

The pilots, which are at three installations -- Army Futures Command in Austin, Texas, Camp Roberts in California Fort Polk in Lousiana -- focus on connecting the Army’s portion of the Department of Defense’s Information Network (DODIN) with commercial industry offerings for foundational network services, end user services, compute and storage.

“Before the end of the fiscal year, we will move into Phase 3 of those first three things [and] begin the implementation of the capability of those three installations,” Pontius said during AFCEA International’s virtual Army Signal Conference July 14.

*** The Navy is looking to wearable proximity trackers as a way to manage coronavirus risks among its personnel. GCN has details on the solicitation.

*** What effect is the social justice movement having on the government contracting community? Washington Technology's latest Project 38 podcast explores how firms are assessing and adapting.

*** FCW's Cybersecurity Workshop is Aug 11. Click here for speakers, session topics and to sign up for this virtual event.