FedTech Magazine

MARCH 10, 2023

For women in IT, the road to a federal government C-suite position may involve working at multiple agencies, navigating remote assignments and honing an exceptional blend of technical expertise and leadership savvy. billion Technology Modernization Fund. billion Technology Modernization Fund.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Now in its 20th year, the Department of Defense Intelligence Information System Worldwide Conference is the largest IT gathering focused on the defense and intelligence communities. DoDIIS, sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency, takes place in Portland, Ore.,

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 31, 2024

Census Bureau needed new devices for their workers to survey residents across the country, the organization’s IT leaders wanted to ensure the process of getting those tablets was seamless for tens of thousands of employees. They needed enumerators to have the devices in their hands so they could hit the streets.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s February release of version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Framework is a milestone in the evolution of cyber standards, expanding them to encompass all sectors.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The General Services Administration has awarded its Polaris small business governmentwide acquisition contract for IT services to 102 vendors, with awards for other types of vendors on the way. Unlike its predecessor, the new Polaris contract doesnt have an award ceiling.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The Office of Personnel Management will lean heavily on artificial intelligence as it leverages a recent Technology Modernization award to update legacy mainframe programs for its retirement systems, according to an agency spokesperson. The latter approach would take five years, according to the spokesperson.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Addressing underrepresentation in the IT workforce is the first step toward developing a robust pipeline of Native American IT professionals, according to Monday’s multipanel session at TribalNet 2024.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Federal agencies face a wide range of cybersecurity threats, including ransomware, insider attacks and phishing attacks. Some of these threats come from relatively new vectors such as Internet of Things devices. Others are much older and elemental, including memory safety.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 9, 2025

Raft, a technology consulting firm, has received a contract valued at $25.1 million from the U.S. Air Force to provide cloud computing and IT integration 2.0

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource pilot is an important but limited step in getting agencies to start planning to integrate AI technology into their work, according to an NVIDIA spokesperson. Led by the U.S.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 30, 2023

Recent discussions around ChatGPT, and generative artificial intelligence more broadly, are improving federal officials’ understanding that AI isn’t simply programmed analytics running queries against databases. AI encompasses machines programmed to simulate human intelligence and learn.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

Federal agencies have reported an average of about 30,000 cyber incidents annually for the past five years, according to data from the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2024

Managing security effectively across a vast landscape of legacy technologies at some point feels like a losing proposition for federal cybersecurity and IT teams. There are too many updates, patches and critical fixes to tackle — all to maintain systems that likely don’t offer the power or agility required to run more innovative solutions.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

When you’re adding onto your house, it’s critical that you and your contractors ensure the new second story blends with the original build. Can your current electrical service handle the additional load? Will your floor joists support the weight of the new structure?

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Let’s explore what cooperative purchasing entails and delve into the myriad ways it can revolutionize public sector procurement. What is Cooperative Purchasing? Cooperative purchasing lets organizations purchase goods and services through contracts already competitively solicited and awarded by a lead agency.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Agile methodology is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Though it’s proved to be a winning formula for delivering enhanced capabilities, it still must be tailored to the circumstance. Combining human-centered design methods into agile delivery allows developers to focus on user-centric outcomes.

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USFCR

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

General Services Administration (GSA) is Transactional Data Reporting (TDR). TDR may initially sound intimidating, but it’s an essential aspect of doing business with the federal government—and can even work to your advantage once you understand it.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Mexico City is a leader in urban mobility, with a public bike share system that is the longest-running and largest network of its kind in Latin America. As a result, the city expanded the service from 6,500 to 9,300 bikes and from 480 to 687 bike stations, with upgrades to the city’s bike share technology and design to be more user-friendly.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2025

Last year, the Office of Management and Budget released FedRAMP guidance intended to make it easier and faster for federal agencies to put cloud solutions to work. Since the establishment of FedRAMP in 2011, cloud solutions have exploded, and they continue to grow exponentially.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 11, 2025

Government customers expect the technology resellers they work with to employ certain sustainability practices, such as IT asset disposition, to maintain compliance with environmental, cybersecurity and human rights regulations.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 28, 2024

million in TMF funds, NARA will upgrade two outdated IT systems no longer supported by its vendor with new cloud-based software. The new applications improve efficiencies and provide veterans and their families — and hundreds of federal agencies — with faster, more reliable and secure access to records.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The General Services Administration announced Wednesday that it has awarded IBM a 15-year, $903.5 million contract to provide a next-generation travel and expense management service for the federal government. All chief financial officers across federal agencies (except for the Department of Defense) will be required to use the new system.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Army needs to improve its IT asset management to complement its security operations and create a more robust environment for the modern warfighter, according to CDW Government technology experts. Asset management refers to the steering of hardware and software, including applications, through their lifecycles, from…

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 9, 2025

A clause in the Defense Authorization law for 2025 has procurement attorneys sitting up in their chairs. It calls on the Defense Department and the Government Accountability Office to develop a plan to test a novel idea: having companies that lose bid protests to repay DoD for legal costs. Chris Griesedieck: No, it’s not. Tom Temin: Wow.

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FedScoop

MARCH 14, 2025

Graber comes to government after a long career in the private sector, where his experience includes managing Googles security and privacy technical program for four years and joining Twitter before it became X as an information security manager and then a risk and data analytics senior manager, according to his LinkedIn.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 18, 2024

Before the advent of cloud computing and self-service tech, IT professionals often drowned customers in tech jargon. But the industry’s evolution has brought a new way to interface with technology. Today, tech is intuitive and a lot more user-friendly. A toddler can master a tablet in minutes without any instruction. Agencies may cling…

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2024

To prepare for the total solar eclipse in 2017, NASA focused on technology that would keep its livestreams running for those who couldn’t see it in person. This time, the agency has looked at how to spend less money for even better service. About 12 million people watched the eclipse on NASA sites on Aug. in more than a century.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

These were among the chief findings of the Data Foundation and Deloittes recent survey of 232 CDOs, which also revealed that their responsibilities are increasingly ambiguous. The overlap between the roles of CDOs and other IT leaders,

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Department of Veterans Affairs is “playing catch-up” to agencies such as the National Institutes of Health in automating its acquisition processes, according to its chief acquisition officer.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

When the Office of Personnel and Management secured $9.9 million from the Technology Modernization Fund to support its zero-trust security efforts, the agency was thinking big. “We We wanted to tackle it all,” says OPM CISO James Saunders of its journey to a zero-trust architecture. And for federal civilian agencies, the clock is ticking.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Many agencies suffer from unnecessary IT spending, unused licenses, Software as a Service (SaaS) sprawl and an incomplete picture of their technology posture due to a lack of software asset management visibility. The space agency isn’t alone: More than a quarter of about 800 IT leaders across the U.S.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Defense Department has issued a formal notice to the contractor on its household goods moving contract , asking the firm to justify recent performance issues that appear to violate the terms of the multibillion dollar contract. The recent show-cause notice from U.S. GHC is truly a transformational effort.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Zach Whitman, the General Services Administration’s chief AI officer and data scientist, reminds his colleagues that the GSA was one of the first agencies to adopt email and internet access for the government workplace.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

For the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a tribe of nearly 40,000 in Shawnee, Okla., guarding against a potential loss of data related to its history, language and culture is a huge priority. Data is so important for a company, and that data needs to be backed up,” says tribe CIO Christopher Abel. “It

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With the opening of its Workplace Innovation Lab, the General Services Administration seeks to better understand how hybrid work and the deployment of communication technologies will impact its employees. Located in Washington, D.C.,

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence can be a valuable military tool, but several top military officials and industry experts said this week that they believe it will work best only if humans remain involved in its use.

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Whistleblower Network News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

(formerly known as Symantec Corp.) million in a False Claims Act (FCA) judgement stemming from a qui tam whistleblower lawsuit. 30, 2012, that its disclosures of its commercial sales practices were current, accurate and complete.” 30, 2012, that its disclosures of its commercial sales practices were current, accurate and complete.”

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