Cybersecurity
DHS waives contracting rules for border wall
Acting Secretary Chad Wolf announced plans to use special authority to build sections of the planned border wall without the use of competitive bidding.
Acquisition
GSA extends and expands contractor debriefing pilot
The General Services Administration is offering contractors a longer and more detailed explanation of award decisions.
People
GSA seeks assisted acquisitions exec
GSA is searching for an assistant commissioner to help oversee assisted acquisitions, including FedSIM.
Cybersecurity
Evans out at Energy Department
The Department of Energy is replacing Karen Evans at DOE's Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response office with a cyber official from NSA.
Digital Government
House bill would make modernization CoEs law
A new bipartisan bill would codify the General Services Administration’s Centers of Excellence.
Digital Government
Contractors detail SAM website woes
Trade group relates ongoing problems with contracting opportunities.
Modernization
Executive order looks to safeguard GPS infrastructure
Federal agencies are being tasked with developing guidance to protect signaling and spectrum capabilities that undergird GPS and other services.
People
FDA wants to upgrade ethics filing platform
The Food and Drug Administration aims to improve the way documents for ethics rules compliance are filed and tracked.
Digital Government
Agencies look to 'low code' to speed development
Increasingly federal agencies are looking to easy-to-use "low code" development techniques to build public-facing apps.
Cybersecurity
Three agencies team on cyber defense of energy infrastructure
Three agencies with stakes in protecting critical energy infrastructure renew their efforts to develop cyber threat protections.
Cybersecurity
Procurement plays into U.S. counterintel strategy
Educating industry and federal procurement workers on the basics of cyber threats is part of a holistic supply chain security strategy, said the head ODNI's National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
Modernization
Bureau of Indian Affairs wants new computer contract
The agency that provides services to hundreds of Native American tribes wants a multivendor computer hardware contract that allows its agencies to comply with set-aside goals and unite sometimes fragmented buying.
Acquisition
GSA launches second phase of buying schedule consolidation
The General Services Administration has started the process of modifying contracts to fit the new unified buying schedule.
Modernization
How GSA does oversight on EIS
With a March deadline looming, GSA is checking on how agencies are moving ahead with their telecom transition plans.
Acquisition
Mary Davie: Exit interview
After 30 years at the General Services Administration, Mary Davie is headed for a new innovation post at NASA.
Modernization
Lawmakers want probe of spectrum management 'breakdown'
The chairman and ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders request a review of federal spectrum management.
Digital Government
CBP pilot collects data on small international packages
A Customs and Border Protection pilot looks to nine e-commerce platforms and cargo companies for more detailed data on incoming small packages.
Cybersecurity
GSA fine tunes e-commerce effort
The changes GSA made to its commercial electronic marketplace solicitation in early January makes the portal proposal more amenable to commercial providers, experts said.
Modernization
CenturyLink wins $1.6 billion telecom task order from Interior
After a protest from rival Verizon failed, CenturyLink emerged as the winner of the Interior Department's telecom modernization task order under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.
Cybersecurity
CISA looks for input on new, 'less prescriptive' TIC
Agencies can use new guidance documents on Trusted Internet Connections 3.0 to jumpstart their own pilot programs and suggest improvements to the policy.
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