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By Adam Mazmanian   The House of Representatives passed the Senates version of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act Plan on Wednesday. The vote was 220-211. The signature elements of the bill include money for direct individual payments to Americans, expanded tax credits for children, an extension of enhanced unemployment benefits as well as public health measures to speed the acquisition and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. But for the federal IT community, the bill will also be remembered...

Quick Hits *** Two Senate committees voted on Wednesday to advance the nomination of President Joe Bidens pick for deputy director at the Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young. Her nomination for the somewhat sleepy post of OMB deputy director has assumed new urgency in since Neera Tanden, Bidens pick for OMB director, dropped out of the running after Senate opposition. If confirmed, the Biden administration plans for Young to serve as acting director of OMB, White House Press Sec...

Ben Tchoubineh, the CMMC accreditation bodys chair for training and CMMC board member Nicole Dean, the chief information security officer for Accenture, have voluntarily resigned, FCW has learned.

Quick Hits *** The American Rescue Act as passed by the Senate includes $25 million for the Department of Agriculture to improve the technology behind the delivery of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, modernize benefits transfer and to push for more mobile access. *** Other tech items in the rescue package include $200 million for the U.S. Digital Service and $150 million for the Federal Citizen Services Fund. Posted by FCW Staff on Mar 10, 2021 at 2:34 AM

SATCOM from a company part-owned by the UK government could be delivered to DoD users in contested environments.

By Justin Katz   Top officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday told House lawmakers no federal agencies are known to be compromised by vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Exchange, but warned it is "an evolving campaign with new information coming in by the hour." "The vast majority of Microsoft Exchange servers have been mitigated across the federal civilian executive branch. We are working with individual agencies to assess their results of their forensic ...

Another UFO Disclosure Keeps Us Thirsty For More! For crying out loud... just say it, say it already! There are beings from other planets visiting the Earth and its been happening for decades and maybe much longer than that! Okay, thats what I want them to say, and they are getting closer... The latest update, March 2021: Another admission through FOIA (freedom of information act) obtained documents that we have been experimenting with recovered UFO wreckage for many years including the metal t...

By Justin Katz   Federal agencies still reeling from the effects of a massive hack involving SolarWinds may face a new challenge of evicting any adversaries that breached their networks through recently discovered vulnerabilities in Microsofts Exchange software. "Patching and mitigation is not remediation if the servers have already been compromised," the National Security Council said in a tweet on Friday. "It is essential that any organization with a vulnerable server take immediate measures...

By Adam Mazmanian, Justin Katz Mar 08, 2021   The Technology Modernization is poised to receive one heck of a present for its three-year anniversary – a $1 billion funding injection from Congress that would dramatically its capitalization. The TMF was founded by the Modernizing Government Technology Act and launched with $100 million. The fund has received three $25 million appropriations but overall has remained small – especially considering lawmakers initially sought to fund it with $3 ...

Quick Hits *** The congressionally chartered National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence submitted its final report on March 1. In the introduction, chairman Eric Schmidt and vice chairman Robert Work caution about the rise of lethal AI among U.S. adversaries and argues that "we will not be able to defend against AI-enabled threats without ubiquitous AI capabilities and new warfighting paradigms." *** The General Services Administrationannounced a share of a Bitcoin will be part...