Federal News Network

DECEMBER 26, 2024

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FedInsider

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the face of new and growing threats many federal, state and local IT budgets stay the same, however. The challenge becomes how to plan and implement a zero trust environment within budgets that are slow to increase. Creating a zero trust environment holds a lot of promise to provide significantly improved cybersecurity.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ top IT official told House lawmakers on Wednesday that a larger budget and the ability to pay certain government workers more would improve the agency’s cybersecurity posture. The post VA needs bigger budget to draw better cyber talent, CIO says appeared first on FedScoop.

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Inside Government Contracts

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Section 881, small businesses would be required to submit applications for a designation as an Entrepreneurial Innovation Project, and a newly established advisory panel in each military department would recommend eligible programs based on the potential of the project to: advance U.S.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

billion budget. According to a Deltek report, DHS agencies invested over $1 billion into contract awards in 2023, and by the end of fiscal year 2024, the department’s contract obligations are expected to hit up to $12 billion — over 11 percent of its $103.2

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Department of Defenses fiscal year 2025 budget request offers significant insights for government contractors seeking to align with the department’s priorities. billion allocated to research, development, test and evaluation, this budget emphasizes innovation, modernization and technological advancements aimed at strengthening U.S.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Many defense and civilian agencies still struggle to answer questions about where their assets live, if they’re in the correct environment and if they’re secure.

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FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

Between the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Office of Management and Budget, 49 of the 55 requirements in President Joe Biden’s order aimed at safeguarding federal IT systems from cyberattacks have been fully completed.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In order to try and organize and set up parameters for its use, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo requiring agencies to put governance plans in place

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2024

Agencies want to know they’re getting maximum returns on their digital initiatives because IT spending represents a major portion of their budgets. The key here is value-based budgeting,” says James Watczak, a finance and technology business consultant with CDW.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In an era characterized by workforce shortages, limited budgets and escalating demands for rapid service delivery, government agencies are frequently hampered by antiquated technology infrastructures that AI-driven technologies are tactfully modernizing. where funding was realigned to support shifting priorities effectively.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

Agencies’ cybersecurity budgets continue to increase to help them better prevent evolving threats to sensitive data and systems.

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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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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Office of Management and Budget Memo M-22-09 requires them to meet zero-trust objectives by the end of fiscal year 2024. “Because if you tried to do it sequentially — maybe networks first, then data, then identity — it would take too much time.” And for federal civilian agencies, the clock is ticking. That includes…

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Agencies can struggle to stick to recommended three- to five-year IT refresh cycles due to their large install bases, tight budgets and legacy technologies that are not interoperable with newer ones.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2024

NASA has more programs today than at any time in the agency’s history, but budgets haven’t kept up. To streamline projects, keep track of data and prevent the need for rework, the agency’s teams leverage model-based systems engineering methodology.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Jon Rosenwasser, former budget and policy director at the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence, has joined the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to serve as chief financial officer.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 9, 2024

Army Contracting Command-Redstone received one bid for the firm-fixed-price contract modification via the internet and will determine work locations and budget upon issuance of each Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured an $861.3

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2024

A few months later, the Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum directing agencies in the areas of AI governance, innovation and risk management. Such discussions, in fact, are now mandatory: Last October, the White House issued an executive order on the federal government’s role in the development and use of AI.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 29, 2024

Navy's budgeting system led it to overspend nearly $400 million in funds intended to help Ukraine following Russia's 2022 invasion, which has also increased the risk of triggering a possible Antideficiency Act violation in the future. Department of Defense said that lax financial controls in the U.S.

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Redstone Government Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2024

Our friendly DCAA auditors have taken up the government requirement to calculate and publish annually the new compensation cap as provided for in Section 702 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (BBA; Pub. 113-67), dated December 26, 2013. The 2024 cap amount is $646,000. Below, we have provided the compensation caps going back to 2016.

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 25, 2023

federal agencies with “research and development (R&D) budgets that exceed $100 million are required to allocate 3.2%. of this extramural R&D budget to fund small businesses through the SBIR program.” Small Business Administration (SBA). Each year, SBA notes, U.S. ” The U.S.

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Department of Defenses budget for fiscal year 2024 was $824.3 billion, a sizable amount of which was devoted to acquisition and procurement from the industrial base.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Bauer said 25% of his team’s budget goes towards cybersecurity — primarily remediation — but they have faced a 28% cut in modernization funds. For folks who are not seeing that budget line item increase for their own shop, again, the TMF is still an option around that.” The squeeze is on, but there’s no relief in sight,” Bauer said.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 29, 2024

Coming off the release of long-awaited FedRAMP modernization guidance last month, the White House is now considering how to navigate its technology budgeting needs in a “rigorous and thoughtful way,” the federal government’s top IT official said Thursday.

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Army Contracting Command received 18 bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and will determine work locations and budget upon the issuance of each order, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The awardees are:

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GovCon Wire

MAY 7, 2024

These tools demonstrate a contractor’s competence and reliability in meeting project deadlines on budget and on schedule. Choosing the right government contracting tools can help government contractors make bids, keep track of contract progress, and ensure compliance. What are Government Contracting Tools?

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Government Contract Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued a policy memorandum with a goal of promoting small business participation under multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts (MACs).

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The company said Friday it will assist the Execution Analysis Branch of the Budget Execution Division within the USMC Deputy Commandant for Programs and Resources in addressing audit issues through data quality improvement efforts.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Agencies looking to establish hybrid data centers need comprehensive security strategies that set realistic time frames and are mapped to their respective budgets. These strategies should identify desired security tools and practices such as cloud environments and ways to continuously monitor them.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I don’t have the budget that industry has. Kevin Kennedy, commander of Air Force Cyber. Unless it’s an offensive capability — offensive cyber would be the example for us — it’s unlikely we’re the innovators. I want to be an early adopter.” Intelligence…

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ExecutiveBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Office of Naval Research solicited bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract under a long range broad agency announcement and will obligate funds in the Navy's fiscal 2023 research, development, test and evaluation budget, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. Register here.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 8, 2023

An Illinois federal jury said Springfield, Illinois, should pay a white former budget employee $100,000 for promoting a Black worker over her and then disciplining her when she complained, just over a year after the Seventh Circuit revived the suit because of the city's conflicting explanations.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Navy says it’s seen huge successes in a pilot project that aims to change the decades-old, hardware-centric budgeting model Congress and the Pentagon use to plan and execute DoD’s spending into one that actually makes sense for modern information technology. But proving to lawmakers that it’s a good idea, so far, has been challenging.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 26, 2024

The White House Office of Management and Budget is looking for input on how federal agency privacy impact assessments could more effectively mitigate risks as technologies, such as artificial intelligence, become more advanced.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

Those agencies also manage vast amounts of sensitive data while faced with challenges related to legacy systems, bureaucratic processes and budget constraints, so it can be difficult for them to maintain adequate cybersecurity defenses against identity-based attacks such as Kerberoasting.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Bureau personnel told the OIG that the lack of a research and development budget makes procurement especially challenging, given that staffers are largely unable to test unproven AI tools that could aid missions. Intelligence Community agencies do have R&D budgets, while the bureau has had to rely on one-off requests to ODNI.

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