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Byline: Adam Mazmanian The Pentagon is planning a $1.5 billion sole-source extension for Leidos to act as integrator on MHS Genesis, the Defense Department's electronic health record program, according to [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The State Department is one of the early adopters of workplace artificial intelligence, with use cases in place covering translation, media summarization and other aspects of the [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian We were frankly blown away by the experience and impact of this year's group of Rising Stars. This isn't a group of promising newcomers but a cadre [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The U.S. government will get an advance look at new artificial intelligence models from industry leaders OpenAI and Anthropic as part of a new safety testing collaboration [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The FBI needs to do a better job keeping track of electronic media slated for destruction and disposal at bureau facilities, according to an advisory memo (https://oig.justice.gov/news/doj-oig-releases-management-advisory-memorandum-concerns-identified-fbis-inventory-management) [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian A Senate committee passed a bill reauthorizing the central revolving fund administered by the General Services Administration to support IT modernization. The Modernizing Government Technology Reform Act [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The acting head of the Secret Service told Congress on Tuesday that additional tech will be deployed to campaign events in the wake of the attempted assassination [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian If there's a dean of the federal chief data officer community, it's Dan Morgan. When Morgan joined federal service in July 2014 as the first-ever chief data [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The White House revamped the federal government cloud buying policy Friday, giving the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program's first major update since its launch in 2011. [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian ServiceNow, a supplier of cloud-based enterprise software tools, parted with its president and chief operating officer, CJ Desai, and its head of public sector, Raj Iyer, after [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Nominations are open for the 2024 Rising Stars program. We're looking to spotlight innovators across federal, state and local governments, as well as up-and-coming talent at contracting [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Ann Dunkin has one of the coolest CIO gigs in government. Her job as the top tech official at the Department of Energy takes her to National [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian A top tech official at the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged to Congress today that a special hiring program could have been put to better advantage at [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The General Services Administration announced $31 million in funding for modernization projects at three federal agencies on Tuesday. These latest Technology Modernization Fund investments may be among [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The Defense Department's chief information officer is resigning from government service to lead the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M. The move was [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Google Cloud announced today that more than 100 of its cloud services are certified as meeting FedRAMP High standards for security. The designation applies across Google's cloud [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The General Services Administration is updating its signature cloud authorization program to feature a new board to take charge of provisional approvals. The Federal Risk and Authorization [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The House passed a bill on Monday that tasks federal agencies with managing computer-generated comments in rulemaking proceedings. The Comment Integrity and Management Act of 2024 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7528) [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Users of top secret IT systems may soon have access to generative artificial intelligence tools to draft documents, write code and analyze information. Microsoft will announce later [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Education Secretary Miguel Cardona told Senate appropriators on Tuesday that the agency's online student aid form would be ready with improvements for students to begin submitting applications [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Generative artificial intelligence can help federal employees do their jobs better in certain cases, but there are risks to watch out for, according to the Office of [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian As the longest-tenured CIO in the federal government, David Shive has a knack for being in the room when innovation is happening. In addition to leading tech [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Nick Sinai can trace the launch of his career as a leader in government technology delivery to the 2008 financial crisis. Sinai and his new wife had [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The Department of Labor is getting a $42 million investment from the Technology Modernization Fund to overhaul the system that managed workers' compensation for civilian federal employees. [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The National Weather Service attributed a six-hour weather data outage (https://www.nextgov.com/modernization/2024/04/federal-weather-system-experiences-outage-amid-severe-weather-nationwide/395425/) on April 2 to an 'intermittent hardware failure' of a circuit in its College Park, Maryland [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Multiple National Weather Service forecast offices nationwide experienced an overnight network outage early Tuesday that lasted over five hours and impacted some warning services, according to a [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Every year for more than three decades, a panel of government and industry technology stalwarts gather in a conference room one Saturday in January to pore over [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Congress wants to know what agencies know about UFOs, and, under a new law, agencies have to tell them. New records management provisions included in the recently [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian For most technologists, the emergence of generative artificial intelligence is the next big thing, but for Kurt DelBene, the top tech official at the Department of Veterans [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Federal civilian agencies are under emergency orders to address recently discovered flaws in a widely used virtual private network appliance from Ivanti that is currently being targeted [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The agencies responsible for administering FedRAMP - the federal government's signature cloud authorization program - are lagging behind on process improvements and reforms, according to the Government [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian A Biden administration plan to create a labeling scheme for connected devices such as smart home products is getting traction internationally. Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Google Cloud announced on Thursday that it was eliminating exit fees for customers who leave for competing cloud services providers. With its announcement, Google is looking to [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian As expected (https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2023/11/new-bill-aims-codify-nist-ai-risk-management-federal-procurement/391730/), Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., offered a companion bill Wednesday to Senate legislation introduced last year that would codify federal guidelines for the adoption of [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian White House budget director Shalanda Young told reporters on Friday that she's 'not optimistic' about avoiding a government shutdown when the current stopgap bills funding government agencies [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian André Mendes, who retired as Commerce Department chief information officer at the end of 2023, emigrated to the U.S. from Portugal at age 17 with $300 to [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian We're extending the deadline to submit Federal 100 nominations into 2024. Our final, no-fooling deadline is Jan. 12, 2024. That gives you 12 extra days to finalize [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian, Elizabeth Daigneau The Rising Star Awards recognize individuals who are early in their public sector IT careers, but already are having an outsized impact. The women and [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The Senate voted to confirm Harry Coker as national cyber director on Tuesday on a vote of 59-40. Coker was nominated in July by President Joe Biden [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The federal civilian government's top buyer is exiting his role at the end of the year. Sonny Hashmi will step down as commissioner of the Federal Acquisition [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The nation's cyber defense agency is warning tech shops about two cybersecurity breaches targeting out-of-support versions of Adobe ColdFusion and reminding agencies to keep up with software [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian André Mendes, chief information officer at the Department of Commerce, announced his retirement from federal service effective at the end of the year. Mendes, whose federal CIO [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Federal cyber authorities are warning critical infrastructure companies that a hacker group linked to the Iranian military is targeting products of an Israeli-owned tech vendor that are [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Under proposed acquisition guidelines, contractors will be required to develop and maintain software bills of materials - essentially an ingredients list covering all software used as part [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian Identity management company Okta said in a Wednesday blog post (https://sec.okta.com/harfiles) that hackers stole a report that included names and email addresses of users of the company's [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The Department of Health and Human Services is looking for a contractor to help manage the implementation of zero trust architecture across multiple operating divisions, as deadlines [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The graying of the government technology workforce is a perennial topic, as promised retirement waves fail to materialize. While there is a burgeoning youth movement in the [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian An end to pandemic-driving spending boosts is expected to lead to an almost 20% reduction in information technology budgets at civilian agencies, according to a new forecast [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian The first U.S. spectrum strategy (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/National-Spectrum-Strategy.pdf) in six years doesn't immediately free up airwaves occupied by government users for auction to the private sector, but it does [...]

Byline: Adam Mazmanian With a potential government shutdown looming in just over one week, the House of Representatives adjourned without voting on the $25 billion Financial Services and General Government [...]