FCW Insider: August 20, 2021
The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors.
Army looks to revise cyber operations doctrine
Brig. Gen. Paul Stanton, the commanding general for the Army's Cyber Center of Excellence, said the service was in the final stages of publishing a revised field manual on how cyber operations.
Pilot IRS awards five scanning contracts
The IRS is using an innovative procurement program to test and deploy experimental solutions to digitize paper files as part of an agency-wide effort to reduce the reliance on non-machine-readable documentation.
Was DOD ready for telework in 2020?
Slow networks, a lack of management buy-in and the need for more government equipment all affected how DOD feds transitioned to telework at the start of the pandemic, new reports from DOD's IG found.
Comment: How a software bill of materials can help solve our supply chain woes
As the software equivalent of a list of ingredients seen on food labels, an SBOM would reveal the provenance of direct and indirect dependencies contained in a particular piece of software.
Quick Hits
*** The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a new Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, designed to advance the use of data in public-health decision-making. GCN has more on this story.
*** The Navy has given industry a first glimpse at how the service branch plans to recompete its estimated $2.5 billion contract vehicle for hardware, software and other types of products and services for networks onboard surface ships. Washington Technology reports.
*** Fifty-eight percent of government workers in a recent survey from data analytics firm Qualtrics support COVID-19 vaccination mandates for all employees before coming back to work in-person. That's slightly less than the 60% of the overall employee population that backs mandates, according to the survey. Qualtrics surveyed more than 1,000 individuals, of whom 162 identified as government employees. Almost 30% of government workers said they would consider leaving their job if a vaccine mandate were put in place, with 21% saying that they would consider leaving a workplace with no vaccine requirement.