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.