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A Senate amendment to the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act extends pandemic relief authorities to government contractors for paid leave through the end of the fiscal year.

Quick Hits Will Roper, the former Air Force acquisition chief, has joined the board of directors of Volansi, a company focused on autonomous, vertical take-off and landing middle-mile drone delivery services and holds a spot on the USAFs Skyborg program, and also joined the board of advisers at augmented reality firm Red 6. *** According to a recent Government Accountability Officereport, federal agencies continue to pursue data center consolidation goals without a clear, consistent metric f...

By Stephen Kovac   As agencies modernize networks in the work-from-anywhere world, they must eliminate traditional on-premise "castle and moat" security models. Modern security approaches are needed to protect hybrid and multi-cloud architectures -- and modern networks. Weve traditionally labelled network traffic as east to west or north to south. This is no longer relevant as more and more government users connect from devices outside the network perimeter. The network traffic compass used fo...

By Natalie Alms   The Office of Personnel Management instructed agencies on the details of how to uproot Trump administration workforce policies, as ordered by President Joe Biden put in place via executive order days after taking office. Much of the OPMs memo focuses on the series of 2018 executive orders that put restrictions on union activity at federal agencies and changed processes to make it easier to fire federal employees for poor performance. The memo also instructs agencies to head ...

The $1.9 trillion relief package could give federal employees up to 15 weeks of pandemic-related paid leave.

Lawmakers in December tasked NIST with to developing processes that would ensure software vulnerability reports flow to the appropriate government offices and the issues are promptly fixed.

By Lauren C. Williams   House Republicans are urging President Joe Biden to increase defense spending at least 3% in the upcoming budget proposal to better compete with China and fund modernization efforts in cyber and nuclear capabilities. "We urge you to reject demands from many on the left to cut or freeze defense spending at current levels," six Republican leaders from the House Armed Services Committee wrote Biden in a letter dated March 4. "Instead, we respectfully request you continue...

Cyber security has become a war of attrition where organizations, government agencies and the Department of Defense (DoD) are facing new threats every day. But

A recent OMB memo tells agencies to remove contracting clauses related to Trumps diversity training executive order.

Colin Kahl, the Biden administrations pick to be the undersecretary of defense for policy, talked cyber and defense while dodging critiques on past social media posts.