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By Mark Rockwell   The Department of Homeland Security is moving ahead with tests of a commercial portable passive radio monitoring system that can find suspect cellular, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices at field locations. DHS' Science and Technology directorate's Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) awarded Bastille Networks a Phase 5 other transaction agreement to continue evaluating the company's "Flyaway Kit" that can sniff out potentially intrusive wireless devices. Bastille Networks said it has been selling the system to the Department of Defense and the federal intelligence communi...

By Mark Rockwell   The initial ordeal of adapting to the pandemic IT environment has evolved into a speedier and focused view of system modernization at federal agencies, according to some federal CIOs. That initial wave of setting up laptops and building remote work systems was stressful, but it may have advanced federal IT modernization efforts by years, according to Stuart McGuigan, CIO of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Information Resource Management. The pandemic, he said in remarks during a Dec. 10 ATARC IT modernization summit, has accelerated modernization at his agency by fi...

By Mark Rockwell   The General Services Administration is continuing to develop a civilian version of the Pentagon's Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) blanket purchase agreement for cloud-based productivity tools. The Defense Department's contact vehicle supplies Microsoft 365 cloud-based email, productivity and communications apps. A GSA official explained in a Dec. 9 virtual event hosted by AFFIRM that a Civilian Enterprise Office Solutions (CEOS) contract requires a different approach. "Agencies are much different in how they’re federated compared to the DOD," Allen Hill,...

By Mark Rockwell NOTE: This story first appeared on FCW.com. The initial ordeal of adapting to the pandemic IT environment has evolved into a speedier and focused view of system modernization at federal agencies, according to some federal CIOs. That initial wave of setting up laptops and building remote work systems was stressful, but it may have advanced federal IT modernization efforts by years, according to Stuart McGuigan, CIO of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Information Resource Management. The pandemic, he said in remarks during a Dec. 10 ATARC IT modernization summit, has acce...