Federal Government
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House Armed Services Adds New Cybersecurity Subcommittee
House Armed Services Committee announces the establishment of a new cybersecurity-focused subcommittee on the panel.
Cloud
Air Force Issues Draft RFP To Open ‘Platform One’ To Private Sector Partnership
The aim is to foster government, academia, and industry partnerships to collaboratively explore new, innovative concepts to address defense software challenges.
Federal Government
Pentagon May Be Forced To Discontinue With JEDI Cloud Effort
In October 2019, Microsoft won the JEDI cloud contract worth up to $10 billion over a period of 10 years beating out market ...
Federal Government
Biden To Name Rob Silvers As CISA’s Director
President Biden is likely to name a group of veterans to lead top cybersecurity posts in his administration.
Federal Government
COVID-19 National Strategy: Biden Promises Improved Data, IT Interoperability
Federal agencies will make increased use of data to guide the public health response against COVID-19.
White House Names New GSA Officials
Katy Kale has been named as the Deputy Administrator and will serve as the Acting Administrator.
Cloud
Rancher Kubernetes Management Available On BoxBoat’s GSA MAS Contract
This partnership will help government agencies migrate legacy applications to modern cloud native architectures.
Federal Government
President-elect Biden Proposes $10B To Modernize Federal IT
The Biden-Harris administration is calling on Congress to change the fund's reimbursement structure in order to fund more innovative and impactful projects.
CXOs
CISA Outlines Security Practices To Strengthen Cloud Security
The agency said that threat actors are using phishing and other vectors to exploit poor cyber hygiene practices within a victims’ cloud services ...
AI/ML
White House Launches National AI Initiative Office
The Office will oversee and implement the United States national AI strategy.
SolarWinds Hack: CISA Asks Agencies To Conduct Forensic Analysis By Month-End
ED 21-01 directed agencies to immediately disconnect or power down certain SolarWinds Orion platform versions from their network.
CXOs
Kenneth Bible Joins DHS As CISO
Prior to this, Bible served as senior IT and cybersecurity official with the Marine Corps.
Federal Government
Twitter, Facebook Block Trump Following US Capitol Violence
After initially imposing a 24-hour ban, Facebook decided to suspend Trump's Facebook account for at least two weeks until "after the peaceful transition ...
AI/ML
US Army To Build Autonomous Vehicles With New AI Research
New Army research reduces the unpredictability of current training reinforcement learning policies so that they are more practically applicable to physical systems, especially ...
Federal Government
US Intelligence Agencies: Solarwinds Hack “Likely Russian In Origin”
The group has so far identified fewer than 10 U.S. government agencies that fall into this category.
DHS Tested Facial Recognition Tech To Identify Masked Faces With 96% Accuracy
The third annual rally evaluated the ability of biometric acquisition systems and matching algorithms to collect and match images of individuals wearing a ...
Federal Government
Army Reserve Appoints Robert Powell As Its First Cyber General
Col. Robert Powell Jr. pinned the one-star rank to his Army Green Service Uniform’s shoulders during a small ceremony at the U.S. Army ...
Federal Government
GSA Releases Draft RFP For Polaris GWAC
The Polaris GWAC is a family of multiple award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts to provide customized IT services and IT services-based solutions.
Federal Government
SolarWinds Hack: Experts Stress On National Cyber Director Role
The recommendation for the new White House czar position came from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
Federal Government
Air Force Awards 17 Quantum Research Grants
At the Million Dollar International Quantum U Tech Accelerator, 36 of the world’s top university teams pitched their proposals to advance quantum enabling ...
NSA Releases Cybersecurity Advisory
The recent SolarWinds Orion code compromise is one serious example of how on-premises systems can be compromised leading to abuse of federated authentication ...
Federal Government
DoD Awards $2.5 Billion Spectrum Forward OTA To NSC
The goal of the Spectrum Forward OTA is to facilitate a partnership between the US technology and industrial base and the US Government ...
Federal Government
DIU, CISA Collaborate On Cybersecurity
The two organizations will help each other understand new threats and coordinate investments in capabilities that aim to maximize the use of finite ...
Federal Government
US Air Force All Set To Test Flying Cars Next Year
Joby Aviation and BETA Technologies were the first partner companies to advance in the “Agility Prime Air Race,” an opportunity that opened in ...
Federal Government
Senate Bill To Increase Transparency In US Response To Cyber-Attacks On Federal Agencies
The bill would require agencies to share information about cybersecurity incidents with OMB and CISA to ensure that attacks against one agency can ...
DISA To Release Zero-Trust Reference Guide Next Year
The agency has joined hands with U.S. Cyber Command, the National Security Agency (NSA) and the private sector to develop the blueprint for ...
Federal Government
SolarWinds Hack: US Federal Agencies Asked To Power Down SolarWinds Orion Products
The global cyberespionage campaign may have begun as early as Spring 2020 and is currently ongoing.
Federal Government
DoD’s $11 Billion DES Contract Out For Bid
The single-award deal will unify the Fourth Estate’s common use IT systems, personnel, functions and program elements under the Defense Information Systems Agency.
Federal Government
Chris Cleary Named Navy’s Principal Cyber Advisor
Chris Cleary will be responsible for implementing the DoD’s Cyber Strategy within the DON by coordinating and overseeing the execution of the DON’s ...
AI/ML
Google Cloud, Deloitte To Develop New Solutions For Public Sector Customers
Deloitte is developing a new AI environment to enable public sector organizations to leverage Google Cloud technologies and to ingest, process and analyze ...
Microsoft Launches Azure Government Top Secret Cloud
Azure Government Top Secret regions are designed to provide the same capabilities as Azure (commercial), Azure Government, and Azure Government Secret.
Federal Government
US, Estonia Join Hands In Cyber Domain
The operation, designed to counter malicious cyber actors, strengthened the cyber defense capability of both nation’s critical assets.
Federal Government
White House To Get A National Cyber Director
The national cyber director would advise the president on cyber strategy and defensive cyber operations.
AI/ML
Pentagon Joins Forces With Howard University For $7.5 Million AI Center
The Howard University center of excellence will explore vital civilian applications and multi-domain military operations.
DevSecOps
Federal Government & Cloud Security: 2021 Predictions By StackRox
Here are the predictions by Branden Wood, Director of U.S. Federal Government at StackRox.
• DevSecOps really starts to take center stage
• Concept of Zero Trust ...
FedRAMP Working On New Draft Baselines For Cloud Security Requirements
FedRAMP is in the process of revising all applicable FedRAMP materials to align with NIST’s updates.
CXOs
Congress Passes IoT Cybersecurity Bill
The bill is aimed at improving the cybersecurity of internet-connected or internet of things (IoT) devices.
AI/ML
JAIC 2.0 To Accelerate Adoption Of AI Technology
JAIC's new director said that the Center must have a broader range of department participants getting involved with AI.
Federal Government
Joe Biden’s Team Hid Secret Job Advert In Website
President-elect Joe Biden's team changes the address of their transition website from buildbackbetter.com to buildbackbetter.gov.
Federal Government
Palantir To Modernize Army’s Mission Command Capabilities
This is a two phased effort in which Palantir will configure its commercial solution for data management.