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Biden taps DIU head for top Pentagon acquisition post -- Washington Technology

By Lauren C. Williams
NOTE: This article first appeared on FCW.com.
President Joe Biden will nominate the director of the Defense Department’s innovative acquisition arm to be the Pentagon’s top buyer, the White House announced April 2.
Michael Brown has been the director of the Defense Innovation Unit, which helps DOD prototype and field new technologies with rapid acquisition techniques, since 2018.
DIU recently celebrated its five-year anniversary and has expanded its portfolio under Brown’s leadership, fielding 26 new capabilities.
Brown was previously a White House Innovation Fellow for the Defense Department and was the CEO of two Silicon Valley companies, the cybersecurity firms Symantec and Quantum, which is one of the biggest suppliers of drives for personal computers.

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New House task force focuses on supply chain vulnerabilities -- Washington Technology

By Lauren C. Williams
NOTE: This article first appeared on FCW.com.
The House Armed Services Committee has launched a task force to investigate defense supply chain vulnerabilities, foreign manufacturing concerns and other issues raised by the pandemic.
"The experience of our totally disrupted supply chains in the early part of the pandemic was a pretty searing experience," Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), co-chair of the Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force, told reporters on March 10.
Supply chain vulnerabilities have long been a concern in the Pentagon but really gained increased attention in recent years particularly regarding foreign manufacturing of technologies such as small drones, semiconductors and microelectronics.

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Technology Modernization Fund set to receive $1B infusion in COVID relief bill -- Washington Technology

By Adam Mazmanian, Justin Katz
Mar 10, 2021
NOTE: This article first appeared on FCW.com.
The Technology Modernization is poised to receive one heck of a present for its three-year anniversary – a $1 billion funding injection from Congress that would dramatically its capitalization.
The TMF was founded by the Modernizing Government Technology Act and launched with $100 million. The fund has received three $25 million appropriations but overall has remained small – especially considering lawmakers initially sought to fund it with $3 billion.
The House of Representatives included $9 billion for TMF in its initial version of the bill, but that provision was scrubbed after objections from many in the Senate. However, TMF backers in the Senate managed to include $1 billion their version of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act. The bill also contains other tech funding, including $200 million for the U.S. Digital Service and $650 million for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for risk mitigation on federal networks and systems.

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Biden speech pledges international cooperation on cyber -- Washington Technology

Biden addressed the global security forum for the first time as president last week when he called for the United States to cooperate with European allies on establishing cyberspace norms.

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CMMC reciprocity in sight for 2021 -- Washington Technology

The Defense Department is still figuring out how to give contractors reciprocity with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program and similar certifications, but the end is close, officials say.

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Dems want $9B TMF boost in legislation -- Washington Technology

By Adam Mazmanian
NOTE: This story first appeared on FCW.com.
Leading Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform are pushing $9 billion in technology refresh money as part of the larger $1.9 trillion pandemic relief and recovery package being pushed by the Biden administration.
In a Jan. 27 letter led by Oversight Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), lawmakers stressed the importance of expanding the Technology Modernization Fund – a pot of no-year money that agencies can tap for projects to improve service delivery, to move systems to the cloud and other efforts to cast off expensive and creaky legacy systems.

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White House names GSA senior leaders -- Washington Technology

By Natalie Alms
NOTE: This story first appeared on FCW.com.
The Biden administration tapped former officials to senior slots at the General Services Administration, but the nomination of an administrator is still to come.
Katy Kale, who served as GSA's chief of staff during the Obama administration, was appointed to the post of deputy administrator and will serve as acting head of the agency until a top official is appointed and confirmed. Kale led the new administration's GSA transition team
Sonny Hashmi was tapped to serve as commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service. He was GSA's CIO and deputy CIO during the Obama administration.

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DOD does away with diversity training modification for contractors -- Washington Technology

The Pentagon eliminated a class deviation that implemented the president's executive order purging diversity training across federal grants and contracts.

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DISA taking over DOD cloud implementation -- Washington Technology

The Defense Department's cloud office is moving to the Defense Information Systems Agency later this month in a move that consolidates DOD's cloud strategy.

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