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During the height of the pandemic, the Department of Veteran Affairs moved its increasingly popular video telehealth service to the cloud, one of about 100 applications scheduled to be migrated by the end of 2024.

Defense and military personnel are now a part of an automated "continuous vetting" program that will flag concerning behavior or circumstances as part of the security clearance process.

The Transportation Security Agency and the Coast Guard are getting increased authority over industry cybersecurity.

Improving how the service acquires software and IT systems, while making DevSecOps the norm ranks among the top priorities for Andrew Hunter, the White House nominee to be assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has reorganized its cloud offices, combining the Cloud Computing Program Office with DISAs hosting services directorate and ecosystem.

The U.S. government, will have to start regularly having hard conversations "country to country" on state-sponsored cyberattacks, according to a top Defense Department official.

The agency made some awards on a long-delayed financial management modernization effort earlier this month, but years of work awaits the agency on establishing an enterprisewide system.

Some for good reason. 

While most of the Cyberspace Solarium Commissions recommendations are on track to being implemented, but lack of funding could potentially undermine some efforts, according to a recent the commissions’ 56-page progress report.

DHS Office of the Chief Procurement Officer issued a special notice Aug. 10, noting that it is looking for a way to check contractors compliance with its cyber hygiene clauses released in 2015.