55+ min ago  (435+ words) Speaking at MeriTalk’s Shift Happens event in Washington, D.C., officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and industry highlighted this shift in federal procurement. Ajay Phogat, senior advisor to the chief information officer (CIO)…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1023+ words) Federal agencies need clearer artificial intelligence (AI) governance and a plan for agentic AI if they want to move from experimentation to production, Dell Technologies CTO and Chief AI Officer John Roese told MeriTalk. In a recent interview, Roese said…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (378+ words) CIA Director John Ratcliffe said on June 30 that the CIA completed nearly 400 technology acquisitions in the past six months under an acquisition framework introduced earlier this year to speed procurement and modernize how the agency works with industry. The framework,…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (411+ words) A commission established by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is recommending the creation of a standalone U.S. Cyber Force and says the new military service could achieve initial operating capability within 12 to 18 months without disrupting ongoing cyber operations....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (462+ words) Speaking June 4 at the TechNet Cyber conference in Baltimore, defense leaders said cyber has become a foundational element of military operations, shaping everything from force design to infrastructure defense. Air Force embeds cyber into force design and AI development Wanda…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (246+ words) Cybersecurity policy has long been treated as a communications function instead of an operational mission, which creates a disconnect between cyber professionals and operators in the field, according to Daniel Austin, senior cybersecurity subject matter expert for the U.S. Space Force....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (307+ words) AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Zayo announced the new Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (C2 ISAC) on May 19. According to the group, the C2 ISAC builds on decades of public-private collaboration with the National Coordinating…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (498+ words) Speaking at the GovCIO Media and Research Federal Efficiency Summit in Reston, Va., officials from the Department of Transportation (DOT), Department of Labor (DOL), and Government Accountability Office (GAO) said many federal agencies are pursuing modernization efforts that rely on…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (215+ words) Companies and organizations are collecting more data than ever before, increasing potential security and privacy risks that privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) could help reduce, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). PETs can modify, hide, or process data to make it…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (451+ words) The federal government invests more than $100 billion annually in IT, but those investments frequently fail to deliver in timely or cost-effective ways – in part because most major federal agencies are not meeting statutory IT portfolio review requirements, a federal watchdog…...