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Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, is poised to become energy secretary as the agency continues to grapple with the fallout of the SolarWinds Orion hack.

During his time as mayor, Marty Walsh pursued actions to increase the amount of minority-, women- and veteran-owned contractors in Boston.

Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) will chair a new subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee focused on cybersecurity, emerging tech and information systems.

By Justin Katz   The coronavirus pandemic pushed federal agencies to rely on technology to support telework, but some organizations are feeling the pinch from hiring freezes instituted at the start of the Trump administration. At a government IT event hosted by the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC), a few speakers discussed the strain being put on IT departments. "We all, I think, across the board have the security concerns that we're fighting individually and collectively, but the IT resources have been a bit of a struggle because of the hiring freezes that we've experien...

By Justin Katz   On day one of Alejandro Mayorkas' tenure as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, if he's confirmed as expected, he'll be under pressure from Congress to deliver answers about why the federal government's cybersecurity measures failed to detect or defend against the SolarWinds Orion hack. Mayorkas promised at his confirmation hearing to review the agency's high profile cybersecurity programs, including the network protection program Einstein that's a key component of the National Cybersecurity Protection System. Lawmakers, prior to the discovery of the breach in ...