FCW Insider: October 1, 2021
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The latest news and analysis from FCW's reporters and editors.
Congress passes funding bill through Dec. 3, avoiding shutdown
With just hours to go in fiscal year 2021, Congress passed a stopgap funding bill to avert a partial government shutdown.
7 new TMF awards include one classified project
The awards focus on zero trust and include a major investment in the Login.gov federal digital identity solution.
Comment: Cyber EO compliance is a full-time job
Unified security controls, supply chain security, zero trust and smart procurement decisions are all pieces of the puzzle.
ICYMI: CDC, NASA seek apps to monitor employee vaccinations
CDC is looking for a vaccine passport-type service to authenticate COVID-19 vaccine data on its employees and to supply proof of recent tests for traveling agency employees, while NASA is looking for a smartphone app to its 18,000 employees to display their vaccination status when entering an agency facility.
Quick Hits
*** Sixty-four percent of the workforce at the Department of Homeland Security is vaccinated against COVID-19, said Chief Human Capital Officer Angela Bailey during a Thursday hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee. There's a Nov. 22 deadline for feds to get vaccinated. The agency's strategy to bring that number up is making vaccines available, educating the workforce and providing a reasonable accommodations process for anyone with exemptions. Agencies can discipline feds for noncompliance, but Bailey said "we're not in the business of removing our employees... It's a national security issue for us to make sure that we have every DHS employee that we can on board."
*** Rohit Chopra was confirmed on Thursday by the Senate on a vote of 50-48 to serve as director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Chopra previously served as a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission.
*** The Department of Labor has finalized its award of a block of five task orders to Verizon with a combined $887 million ceiling for modernization work on that agency's communications and IT environment. Washington Technology has more on this story.