Federal News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget. A Government Accountability Office report from last December found 1,200 existing use cases, but most of the reported AI use cases are “in the planning phase, and not yet in production.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Organisations should consider enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect these highly privileged accounts. userIdentity.userName = "breakGlassUser0*") && ($.userIdentity.invokedBy

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Department of the Navy is putting its contractors on notice to deliver ships, aircraft and submarines on time and on budget. VA watchdog warns EHR issue puts 250,000 veterans at risk of medication mix-ups - Federal News Network) Members of the National Guard and Reserve are not receiving special pay and their advocates want to know why.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Using these credentials, criminals can gain access and move laterally across state and local networks, allowing them maximum control to steal data or deploy ransomware.” Mobile threat defense (MTD) solutions provide comprehensive protection from threats such as phishing, malware, network and device compromise.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. What is a landing zone?

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FedInsider

MARCH 25, 2024

In August of that year, the Office of Management and Budget issued Memorandum 21-31 setting specific requirements for agencies to meet, for which the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued guidance regarding implementation.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. It results from past budget deficits and requires ongoing management through interest and principal repayments.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 17, 2024

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reiterated something it has been pointing out for years: The government wastes billions and billions of dollars on duplicative and overlapping activities. Otherwise, you’d have every agency with a checking account. I’m thinking of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

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Federal News Network

MAY 10, 2024

Only about 50 programs using software acquisition pathway so far According to the Government Accountability Office, there are only about 50 programs across DoD using the software pathway. The post DoD stands up ‘SWAT team’ to help speed software acquisition first appeared on Federal News Network.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 5, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget’s 2024 Revisions of the Uniform Grants Guidance aim to streamline, simplify and expand the overall reach of the $1.2 Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget. trillion in grants and cooperative assistance agencies pay out each year.

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Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the article, Kohn outlines these four key provisions: The imposition of interest on delayed awards The removal of budget sequestration for whistleblower awards The ending of double taxation of attorney fees The institution of de novo review in award case appeals.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 24, 2024

In March 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo that provides more specific directions to agencies for compliance with the guidance outlined in the executive order. By using these capabilities, agencies can proactively identify and mitigate potential biases, fostering trust and accountability in their AI systems.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The guidance establishes that government devices taken abroad risk being stolen, compromised, or damaged physically — while also potentially exposing personal and government application data and account information. For a sense of scope, FEMA maintains tens of thousands of mobile devices, the OIG report outlines.

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 25, 2024

However, the CVF is currently below budget. In an open letter to several members of Congress , key whistleblower organizations—The Government Accountability Project, National Whistleblower Center, EMPOWR Oversight, The Anti-Fraud Coalition (TAF Coalition), and Whistleblowers of America—expressed their concerns about the bill.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

State wants to interact with industry in a smarter way, to get better responses to requests for proposals and take more things — like interdependencies and technology refreshes — into account at the start of the process. It’s okay to put some human eyes on things.”

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FedInsider

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget recently released policy guidance to remove unnecessary barriers that hinder agencies’ responsible implementation of AI-centric solutions. Wednesday, September 4, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 90 Minutes | 1.5 In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 50 minutes equals 1 CPE.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 22, 2024

While the government communicates its innovation priorities to the industry somewhat well, budget instabilities and limited application of novel acquisition pathways that the Pentagon continues to use as an exception rather than the rule is what lowered the grade. But the U.S. That’s up from the $191 million enacted last year.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 26, 2024

“The IRS is clearly interested in hearing from whistleblowers with detailed information about significant, recent, and current tax evasion regarding high-wealth individuals, complicated partnerships, overseas accounts, and large businesses.” However, the report also contains bad news according to whistleblower advocates.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 16, 2024

market, it has run into funding challenges for active surveillance and found “limited use of unique device identifiers in electronic health records and billing claims,” according to the Government Accountability Office. As the agency establishes the system to better evaluate authorized tools in the U.S

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Union says loss of pay bonuses at BOP facility will cause major attrition - Federal News Network) The Defense Department's move to zero trust is getting some next level specifics next week. CISA) The Veterans Affairs Department's supply chain modernization efforts get a big win at the Government Accountability Office.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 15, 2023

IoT, coined in 1999 , refers to a network of physical objects embedded with technology, enabling communication and interaction with the environment. Currently, 62% of federal agencies utilize IoT for systems control, access management, and asset tracking, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

Invoice to Pay is a request for payment by a supplier, and technology helps to make this simple, fast and more efficient for the Supplier and the Accounts Payable team. If this is done in a coordinated way, Invoice to Pay is more powerful than the traditional silo’s of Invoice software management, budget allocation and payments.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Hysen told Federal News Network, “Where else are you going to go where you can not just get to work on cutting-edge technology, but you can apply it to missions, like combating the flow of fentanyl into the United States, like combating child sexual abuse and exploitation, like making it easier to become an American citizen?

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FedInsider

APRIL 2, 2024

Close CISO, Enterprise Technology, Maricopa County, Phoenix, AZ Ryan Mulhall × Ryan Mulhall Chief Information Officer Ryan Mulhall is the Chief Information Officer for the Iowa Communications Network, the state owned fiber network, broadband carrier, and Internet Service Provider. He also spent 9 years as an officer in the U.S.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 16, 2024

“I’ve got a lot of work to do to convince them,” he said in an interview with Federal News Network. “I Compensation will always be an issue, but TRANSCOM has been a great partner and there are methods to take that into account. TRANSCOM is committed, and we’re committed. We’re trying to get that across.”

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Over the course of several months, the ITVMO, the Office of Management and Budget and Microsofts federal division discussed the governments requests and proposed additional ways to establish a strategic partnership, Stanton wrote in the blog obtained by Federal News Network. billion in spending.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

His knowledge of change management, data center consolidation and operations, network design and deployment and IT services management, coupled with his outstanding reputation and record of performance within the Department of Justice positioned him well to be a transformation agent. security agencies.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Using Invoice-to-Pay to create a top performing Accounts Payable Team. The performance of your Accounts Payable department can have a significant impact on the organization. For this, a leading analyst group, Gartner has identified that Accounts Payable the team must overcome a number of challenges with their Invoice- to-Pay solution.

Supplier 52

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Federal News Network

MAY 22, 2024

Two of the Coast Guard’s biggest programs — the Offshore Patrol Cutter and the Polar Security Cutter — are years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says those cost and schedule increases are signs of broader management and oversight problems. They are on time and on budget.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

But within three months, and following a series of questions from Federal News Network, and possible pressure from Appian, whose platform the Navy is using to build ePS, NAVWAR said the report is erroneous and has no plans to redo it. billion in contracts on. The system has executed over $22.6

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But at the same time, this regulation doesn’t take any of that into account. Larysa Kautz It’s significantly less than 1% of the DoD’s budget. I mean, we’re talking about half of a percent of the DoD budget. A lot of those things are now becoming a priority and a requirement of the program.

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FedInsider

AUGUST 17, 2024

This includes a redesign of the network infrastructure, both wired and wireless, migrating multiple internal domains to Microsoft 365, implementing modern cybersecurity initiatives, and consolidating numerous servers to a VMware platform and storage array.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But, you know, with the threat of a continuing resolution for the rest of the year, for the lack of new budget authority, you know, new appropriations for the current fiscal year. So, there’s really no money in the accounts to pay for ongoing costs of a contract. Only big deal to the contractor. So, we’ll see what happens.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Beyond the annual bid protest report to Congress from the Government Accountability Office, agencies track few other outcomes from protests. They pay a lot of money for the protest process in terms of what comes out of salaries and budget and time to take delivering products and services to their customers internally.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 4, 2024

It has gotten a little bit tighter this year and is expected to do the same next year with the bipartisan budget agreement that came out of the debt ceiling crisis that we had back — I guess it was around last summer. The post Why most government contractors are feeling confident about 2025 first appeared on Federal News Network.

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Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The reforms in the bill include the imposition of interest on delayed awards, the removal of budget sequestration for whistleblower awards, the ending of double taxation of attorney fees and the institution of de novo review in award case appeals. The IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act goes a long way in making this possible.”

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Government buyers operate under strict purchasing policies designed to ensure accountability and compliance in their procurement processes. This person can advocate for your solution, help uncover budget sources, and guide you through the procurement process. What should I do if my bid is rejected?

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