FCW Insider: Feb. 5
The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors.
Space Force begins onboarding cyber specialists
The U.S. Space Force has begun transferring more than a thousand cyber professionals into its ranks as of Feb. 1 with plans to start recruiting talent for multiple career fields from across the military branches this year.
Small drones, training could be standard issue for service members
The Defense Department is planning to incorporate drone training for every service member as part of its counter small unmanned aerial systems strategy.
Labor nominee says that unemployment tech needs to be updated
Lawmakers are looking to President Biden's Labor Secretary nominee Marty Walsh for help on modernizing unemployment insurance delivery, worker safety and stimulating growth in STEM jobs.
Foster plans push for digital ID legislation
Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) said today he will likely reintroduce a bipartisan bill to improve the country's fragmentary digital identity verification systems.
ATO ASAP: Let's finally fix the security compliance problem
The process federal agencies go through to prove a system is secure may actually be making us less secure. This is a problem that we must fix today, not tomorrow.
Quick Hits
*** President Joe Biden withdrew a slate of Trump administration nominees that were active but hadn't been heard by the Senate in the current session. These include three nominees to serve on the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board: John M. Barger, Christopher Bancroft Burnham and Frank Dunleavy who was appointed to serve as FRTIB chairman. Dennis Kirk, Trump's nominee to lead the Merit Systems Protection Board, was also withdrawn as was the nomination of Jason Abend to serve as Inspector General of the Department of Defense.
*** IBM has named Steve LaFleche as the new leader of its U.S. public and federal market sector. Read more in Washington Technology.
*** Winter Casey, who served as deputy chief technology officer in the White House under Michael Kratsios has left government for the post of vice president, global government affairs at Veeva Systems, according to her LinkedIn profile.