Acquisition
MGT money zeroed out in Senate funding bill
After receiving $100 million in funding last year, money for the Technology Modernization Fund in fiscal year 2019 may not be a sure thing.
Cybersecurity
IRS’ Rush to Secure Exposed Taxpayer Data Left It Vulnerable Again
Personal information about more than 350,000 taxpayers was compromised in 2015. Three years later, it’s still not secure.
Cybersecurity
Audit finds another cyber headache for IRS
Two years after the Get Transcript breach, officials at the tax agency are still getting dinged for insufficient protection of sensitive taxpayer data.
Digital Government
Congress Lays Out Tech Funding in Spending Bills and Focuses on Supply Chain Threats
It's a busy week ahead for Congress.
People
Will Trump's reorg plan get a boost from Congress?
The White House proposed a wide-ranging plan that would consolidate and reorganize cabinet-level agencies, but it won't get far without backing from Congress.
Modernization
Lawmakers question Google-Huawei partnership
Five Capitol Hill security hawks are asking Google CEO Sundar Pichai to justify a partnership with Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei.
Cybersecurity
Are Federal Cyber Workers Up to Snuff? Many Agencies Don't Know.
Some still aren’t sure who counts as a cyber worker and who doesn’t.
People
21 House Republicans ask Trump to rescind workforce orders
A group of 21 Republican lawmakers wants the Trump administration to reconsider three executive orders on federal unions that they say undermine existing labor laws.
Cybersecurity
Interior IG: Nation’s Dams Safe From Hacks But Vulnerable to Insider Threats
An inspector general review exposes significant weaknesses to dam cybersecurity that have grown more serious over time.
Cybersecurity
Warner seeks fix for clearance backlog
Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner proposed new cost transparency and processing goals to reform the federal security clearance process.
Digital Government
Bid to revive Capitol Hill tech office fails
On a mostly party-line vote, the House rejected an effort bring back the Office of Technology Assessment.
Cybersecurity
GAO Probing FCC Claims of Denial-of-Service Attack
Critics have questioned whether the FCC’s commenting site was actually hit with a distributed denial-of-service attack or just deluged with comments opposing net neutrality repeal.
Modernization
In House bill, Pentagon cloud funding comes with strings attached
The House defense appropriations bill includes new reporting requirements on the JEDI project and the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions cloud efforts.
Cybersecurity
Making CDM work
The top engineer of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program said that success is more dependent on people and processes than technology.
Modernization
GAO Rules Against Pentagon's Experimental $950 Million Cloud Deal
The Government Accountability Office recommended the Defense Department terminate a contract awarded to REAN Cloud in February.
Modernization
Oracle wins bid to block TRANSCOM cloud award
The Government Accountability Office recommended that the Pentagon terminate its $950 million award to Amazon cloud reseller REAN made under an "other transaction authority."
Cybersecurity
Senate Dems push to restore White House cyber chief
Nineteen Democratic senators urged National Security Advisor John Bolton to reconsider his decision to eliminate the national cybersecurity coordinator post.
Acquisition
The evolving role of the CIO
The CIO job has come a long way since the Clinger Cohen Act, but modernization, politics and bureaucratic sprawl continue to shape the position in ways both good and bad.
Modernization
DOD CIO says there can't be one cloud to rule them all
Dana Deasy told Congress at a FITARA hearing that when it comes to cloud, "there is no such thing as one solution."
Cybersecurity