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As the Defense Department looks to buy more services, its going to need to come up with action plans to better account for spending in future years, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.

By Natalie Alms   Kiran Ahuja from her days as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders President Joe Biden will nominate former Obama administration official Kiran Ahuja to be the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. Ahuja led the Biden transition team on OPM and shes an agency veteran. She served as OPMs chief of staff 2015 to 2017. She also served as executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific I...

Quick Hits *** The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security announced several senior appointments on Monday. Nitin Natarajan is the agencys new deputy director. Eric Goldstein will serve as CISAs executive assistant director for cybersecurity. Dr. David Mussington was tapped to serve as executive assistant director for infrastructure security. Goldstein was a member of the agency review team that managed the CISA transition for the Biden admini...

Defense industry experts call on lawmakers to push for procurement protest reforms to enhance national security.

By Natalie Alms   Everett Kelley receives an award at the annual National Action Network Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast, Jan. 2019. (Photo courtesy: AFGE) The largest federal employee union is pressing for some legislative wins with Democrats in charge of both houses of Congress and in control of the White House. The top priority is ensuring safe working conditions during the pandemic and the provision of COVID-19 paid sick leave benefits for feds, said American Federation of Government ...

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Quick Hits *** The General Services Administrationannounced on Thursday that it was rolling out identify proofing via its Login.gov shared services program to "a limited number" of federally financed state and local government programs. GSAs Technology Transformation Services :will limit engagements with state and local entities to work that is linked to federal programs in which TTS is uniquely positioned to provide assistance" and will "partner with applicable federal agencies to ensure prop...

The supply chain hack that targeted IT management software SolarWinds and other vendors will result in changes to the federal governments cybersecurity posture, according to the official charged with leading the administrations response.

By Justin Katz   The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is calling on the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency to provide more information about the cybersecurity breach at a Florida water utility earlier this month. Hackers on Feb. 5 sought to add dangerous amounts of lye to potable drinking water at a treatment facility in Oldsmar, Fla. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in an advisory notice last week hackers were able to gain control of th...

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