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AI, Secure-by-Design, China Among CISA’s 2025 Focus Areas, Executive Director Says

GovCon Wire

Ever since the 2016 presidential election drew concerns of foreign influence, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been the point guard to ensure that the process runs fairly, equitably and without a hitch. After many public appearances by the agency’s director, Wash100 Award winner Jen Easterly, leading up to Nov.

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CISA Director Informs on State of Election Cybersecurity

GovCon Wire

In 2016 and 2020, foreign influence on the U.S. Russian efforts were detected in 2016 in particular and Iranian activities were identified in 2020. presidential election was a concern.

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AWS Marketplace now available in the AWS Secret Region

AWS Public Sector

First deployed in 2016 , ICMP is a digital catalog with software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that makes it easy for customers in the intelligence community (IC) to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.

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Fear and loathing in Defense IT: Time to enforce FAR conflict of interest rules and revolving door abuses

Federal News Network

that prohibits SETA contractors from using their insights and influence to gain an unfair advantage or worse, commit fraud. Some major technology companies have sought to influence government contractors through kickbacks, job offers and special discounts. More recently BAH won a $1.65 conflict of interest and false claims rules.

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How to Prevent Debt from Hurting Economic Growth

Inter-American Development Bank

The debt threshold is not the same for all countries because it can be influenced by different factors such as the economic structure, for example. Estimates obtained using a panel model with threshold effects (Hansen 1999, Seo and Shin 2016). Our research shows that several factors influence the effects of public debt on growth.

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Centralised procurement for the health care sector -- bang for your pound or siphoning off scarce resources?

How to Crack a Nut

For example, if a product cost £10 in 2015-16 and reduced to £9 in 2016-17, Supply Chain would report a saving of £1. If it remained at £9 in 2017-18, Supply Chain would report a total saving of £2 (re-counting the £1 saved in 2016-17).

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A Homeland Security effort to combine requirements has stalled

Federal News Network

You know, since 2016, roughly 2018, that’s sort of what they’ve been attempting to do. So GAOs opinion is that they need more autonomy and a little bit more authority and influence, not less. And so that’s really the intended function. And that’s what this report was looking at. Tom Temin Right. Potentially.