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A VA facility in Cincinnati, (Image credit: Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock.com) The Veterans Benefits Administration is expecting its backlog of benefits claims to spike this summer as the office continues to reckon with the full impact of the pandemic and address claimants ushered in by Congressional mandates and the courts. The backlog of claims is a chronic challenge thats long been the target of agency goals, but doubled over the course of the pandemic. The backlog of disability compensation a...

House Democrats are urging the White House to support an $8 billion taxpayer-funded proposal to direct the United States Postal Service to move towards an all-electric delivery fleet far sooner than the plan Postmaster General Louis DeJoy unveiled earlier this year.

Department of Transportation and how it fits in with trends in public sector acquisition. *** The Office of Personnel Managementannounced that six more academic institutions are being added to the Federal Academic Alliance, a program that gives federal employees access to reduced tuition and scholarships to help complete degrees and acquire critical skills. Posted by FCW Staff on May 12, 2021 at 2:22 AM

TSAs role in pipeline security looks like a weak link to some in government and industry By Justin Katz   Lawmakers and government officials are re-examining the Transportation Security Administrations place in regulating the cybersecurity of the countrys natural gas pipelines in the wake of the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipelines business systems. The office responsible for those policies is historically short staffed and the agency has yet to address several issues brought up by governme...

House appropriators worry about Army modernization cuts as White House finalizes fiscal 2022 request.

A well-funded shared service could relieve an authorization bottleneck and bring essential cloud services to the government market.

Quick Hits Will Hurd joined OpenAIs board of directors, the company announced on Monday night. Hurd, one of a handful of computer science majors to have served in Congress, was active on technology issues as a member, co-sponsoring the Modernizing Government Technology Act and legislation creating a national strategy for artificial intelligence. *** The Facebook Oversight Board, a group established outside of Facebook but funded by the company to review the social networks polices, will relea...

National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Defense along with industry partners to accelerate research on the next generation of high-throughput, low-latency communication networks and associated computing systems. Read more on this program in GCN. *** The Department of Defense is cancelling construction contacts on former President Donald Trumps border wall project that were paid with money intended for other military programs, an agency spokesperson said on Friday....

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Quick Hits ***As the use and power of artificial intelligence increases, the risk for AI to become the hacker, rather than the victim also grows, according to a new report. Read more in GCN. ***Washington Technology editor-in-chief Nick Wakemansays that the new iteration of beta.SAM.gov addresses some of the issues with earlier versions but still has room for improvement. Posted by FCW Staff on Apr 29, 2021 at 2:22 AM