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By GCN Staff Jan 13, 2021 The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants a geolocation dataset of U.S. businesses operating in sectors considered essential to U.S. homeland security. According to a Jan. 7 request for information, NGA said it’s looking for sources of commercial geospatial databases that could be integrated into the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) to inform senior leaders protecting the nation’s infrastructure. The data would support “operational, s...

The number of federal agencies hit by the SolarWinds Orion breach will likely surpass last week’s White House’s tally of 10 affected agencies, according to William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.

Jan 13, 2021 This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast. First, it was a series of problems with government-issued technology in the field. Then it was a wave of complaints about duplicative work, arbitrary terminations and haphazard management practices. Now, Census Burea...

By Robert St. Ledger Jan 12, 2021 Those who work for a small to mid-sized city or county may have thought digital transformation was meant for bigger metropolitan governments with deeper pockets, but nothing could be further from the truth. In a year when municipalities have spent every day keeping their communities safe in a global health and economic crisis, software upgrades may not be at the top of the priority list. A reliable, up-to-date IT backbone, though, can be the price of entry for:...

By Stephanie Kanowitz Jan 12, 2021 Thousands of caseworkers at Maryland’s Department of Human Services (DHS) are using a single cloud-based platform to eliminate silos and better serve beneficiaries of child, juvenile and adult assistance. Child, Juvenile and Adult Management Services (CJAMS) is part of the state’s Total Human-services Integrated Network (MD THINK), the country’s first cloud-based shared services platform for health and human services.  MD THINK provides a holistic view ...

The Agency for International Development is looking cost-effective remote sensing solutions to keep tabs on humanitarian aid as it travels from its source to its destination.

By GCN Staff Jan 11, 2021 Federal IT staff have a massive job ahead of them cleaning up after the rioters who broke into the U.S. Capitol building, some of whom rifled through lawmakers offices. While improving physical security for the building and for lawmakers and staff who work there is the first priority, experts have said the rioters’ unprecedented access to offices, files and computers can have serious cybersecurity ramifications. In some instances, IT equipment was stolen. Sen. Jeff M...

With more advanced detection, investigation and mitigation technologies and processes, agencies can present a much stronger defense against cyber criminals intent on using ransomware as a route to extortion.

Dispatchers, firefighters, police and emergency medical services teams want the devices they already have to work better.

With less than two-thirds of state capitol buildings employing metal detectors, and about 20 statehouses specifically allowing guns inside, there are many security gaps that rioters could exploit.