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The professional training needed to carry out assessments for the Defense Departments unified cybersecurity standard for contractors wont kick off until later this summer.

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In a newly released report, the inspector general at the Department of Veterans Affairs indicates that the $16 billion estimate for the switch to the Cerner electronic health record system doesnt incorporate billions in needed physical infrastructure costs.

Quick Hits General Services Administrations new integrated System for Award Management website did not go well. *** A bipartisan bug bounty provision sponsored by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and three colleagues would sets up a vulnerability disclosure program at the U.S. Department of State. The measure was included in the, State Department Authorization Act, passed last week in the House of Representatives. *** At a Senate hearing last week, Richard Kidd, the deputy assistant secretary of d...

Congress placed a big bet in the American Rescue Plan on the ability of the General Services Administration to reimagine federal IT services and security.

By Lauren C. Williams   Heidi Shyu in 2013 as assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology in Kandahar with Gen. Dennis Via. (DOD photo by Spc. Isaac Adams) Software and elevating small businesses in the defense industry base top the list of priorities of the Biden administrations pick to lead the Defense Departments technology efforts. Heidi Shyu, who previously served as the Armys assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology, debuted her priorit...

By Justin Katz   The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to issue new regulations for pipeline security following the ransomware attack that disrupted Colonial Pipelines operations for more than a week earlier this month. "The Biden Administration is taking further action to better secure our nations critical infrastructure. TSA, in close collaboration with CISA, is coordinating with companies in the pipeline sector to ensure they are taking all necessary steps to increase their resil...

  The governments emergency pivot to telework in 2020, while impressive in both speed and scale, was in many ways a tactical scramble for stopgap solutions. Now, with a year of experience and the prospect of post-pandemic operations on the horizon, IT leaders are reshaping their agencies plans for secure connectivity going forward. FCW recently gathered a group of IT leaders to explore how they are approaching both the workforce and IT infrastructure challenges. The discussion was on the recor...

By Lauren C. Williams   A recent watchdog report provides a glimpse into how the Defense Department spent emergency pandemic funds. In the much-redacted report, the DODs Office of Inspector General reviewed six key awards totaling $207 million in contracts and found that officials complied with federal acquisition regulations and other authorities when funding existing contracts and new technology investment agreements with $1 billion allocated in the CARES Act for purchases and contractor pa...

By Natalie Alms   The federal government looks to be one step closer to reopening workplaces for vaccinated workers, contractors and guests without masking and distancing requirements. The White House-led Safer Federal Workforce Task Force updated its information on mask-wearing and physical distancing to reflect recent changes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "In most settings, fully vaccinated people generally do not need to wear a mask or physically distance in Fed...