Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The digital government strategy, with quarterly deadlines over the next 12 month, aims to give citizens access to government data across devices, improve procurement for mobile, apps, and data, and encourage innovation by making ...
After 6 years and $450 million of development, the FBI’s Sentinel, a case management system designed to allow collaboration and a unified, digital workflow, is almost complete. More here. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) reports that while IRS Computer Security In...
Funding by the Office of Naval Research has led to a robot jellyfish that runs on hydrogen and oxygen gas extracted from the sea and could eventually be used as self-sustaining ocean surveillance. More here. The state of Illinois and two regional governments in the Chicago area are offering citizens...
The General Services Administration on Tuesday released extensive new details on FedRAMP, the federal government’s new standardized approach to vetting the security of cloud computing services, taking an important step toward launching the program....
U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel introduced Wednesday a draft outline of the federal mobility strategy that aspires to do more with less, partly by being more assertive in pushing the private sector to deliver products and services that meet government requirements....
About two years ago, the federal government set in motion an ambitious and broad initiative to dramatically reduce IT operations. The goal: slow the sprawl of the government data center footprint. Well, current federal CIO Steven VanRoekel says the plan is exceeding original plans and targets. In th...
The feds are making steady progress on a 25-point plan to reform IT introduced a year ago Friday, having already delivered on 14 goals of the plan and realizing nearly $1 billion in savings from one of its key initiatives, U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel said Thursday. VanRoekel held a press conference Th...
Cloud computing has flunked a security test, reports Tim Wilson at Dark Reading. That probably doesn’t surprise you. Conventional wisdom says clouds are inherently insecure. But are they? Or are clouds actually more secure than conventional IT environments? A growing number of technologists ...