FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2023

While it has been a mainstay in the private sector for many years, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technology is still slowly finding its way into the federal government. However, the benefits of SD-WAN are more critical than ever as agencies look to modernize their older network topologies and bolster cybersecurity.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 29, 2022

From an IT worker’s perspective, networks are the lifeline of a federal agency. Low network latency is essential to both citizen services and project and mission execution. But how to optimize network performance without new hardware or technology? A job like that requires a tool like the CableIQ…

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The concept builds on the idea that every device, user and network flow must be authenticated and authorized before it’s permitted on the… According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, the public sector reported nearly 3,000 cyber incidents in 2021, with more than 75 percent of them committed by external threat actors.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

Most agencies need to conduct a network assessment as they look for ways to improve their technology to better meet their missions. For these reasons, the Army alone awarded a $526 million network modernization contract in January, seeking higher speeds to support coming upgrades to its storage, classified remote access, virtual desktop…

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As federal agencies modernized their technology solutions over the past several years, they have upgraded their networks, moved to hybrid cloud architectures and adopted shared services. However, there are always more upgrades to do. One federal IT official recently told FedTech it is “almost like a game of whack-a-mole.”

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 30, 2023

This includes machine learning (ML), deep learning and neural networks requiring vast computing power and many iterations. 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.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

The majority of state and federal government agencies are running an increasingly complex mix of more than 20 security tools and platforms to boost network visibility, according to the 2024 CDW Cybersecurity Research Report.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The two explored how they’ve accelerated the implementation of zero-trust security architectures, including network consolidation. Knausenberger and Navy CIO Aaron Weis, both of whom announced their resignations this week, chatted on stage Wednesday at the Rocky Mountain Cybersecurity Summit 2023.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 2, 2024

Amazon Web Services ( AWS) Network Firewall allows customers to filter their outbound web traffic from on-premises environments based on fully qualified domain names (FQDN) or Server Name Indication (SNI) for encrypted traffic. In a production system, use at least two Availability Zones for high availability of the Network Firewall endpoints.

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

The Department of Defense recently announced that it would work with Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle to form its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability network. Agencies are going bigger and getting bolder with their use of hybrid and multicloud environments, even as they attempt to simplify their cloud infrastructures.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To combat and overcome these threats, federal IT administrators can use IP packet capture to examine network traffic for security threats using Microsoft Network Monitor (Netmon). In network monitoring, IP packet capture enables real-time or retrospective packet analysis to establish a baseline.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Navy IT leaders received notification from an aircraft carrier on deployment that the ship’s entire unclassified network was inoperable in April 2022. The impact is tremendous,” says Jeff Myers, deputy program manager for PMW 160, the Navy’s tactical networking program office.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Government interest in predictive artificial intelligence for zero-trust security has increased along with the number of vulnerabilities identified on federal networks. Google researchers found nearly 100 zero-day vulnerabilities, a record number of network exploits, that went

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The San Jose, California-based company said Wednesday the authorization for the cloud networking platform was sponsored by the Department of Homeland Securitys Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When terrestrial network connectivity between an Outpost and its parent AWS Region is unavailable, this solution routes traffic back to the parent Region over a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connection, supporting business continuity and data residency requirements. Organizations want to enhance service resiliency to address this challenge.

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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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WashngtonExec

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Leidos won a contract to modernize the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network, a critical system that delivers vital organ transplant information to patients, donors and healthcare providers. It has a total potential [.]

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Agencies continue to work toward the goal of connecting all employees through the same network, no matter their location, to boost efficiency and security. However, the timing for that shift is likely six years away. However, the timing for that shift is likely six years away. Infrastructure providers continue to…

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

Cyber hygiene consists of practices and procedures that organizations use to maintain the health and security resilience of their systems, devices, networks and data. There exists a major disconnect between the trust most agencies put in their current cybersecurity strategies and their actual ability to defend themselves. For agencies that…

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 30, 2025

Those figures are corroborated by emails obtained by Federal News Network in which HomeSafe reached out to a broad swath of the moving industry to try to secure capacity for moves that were quickly approaching or were already overdue but for which no drivers were currently assigned. The recent show-cause notice from U.S.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Defense Department’s sprawling IT architecture includes at least 15,000 networks used by millions worldwide. Creating a zero-trust network for a system that complex is no small feat. His agency is also the lead on the Thunderdome project, designed to bring all DOD networks into compliance with zero-trust requirements by 2027.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Federal News Network reported in January that few, if any of DoD’s current moving providers are willing to take part in the GHC contract , partly because the rates HomeSafe is offering are significantly lower than what DoD is currently paying the companies under its existing moving system, known as DP3. “The So in short, a delay of one year.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Department of Health and Human Services has posted an update on its planned procurement of IT modernization support for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. The agency said in a SAM.gov, approximately $185 million will be awarded under a five-year multiple-award blanket purchase agreement.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Because if you tried to do it sequentially — maybe networks first, then data, then identity — it would take too much time.” 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

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ExecutiveBiz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Don Parente, vice president of public sector sales at MetTel, discussed how the Starlink satellite internet constellation has provided an opportunity for MetTel to expand its software-defined wide area network, or SD-WAN, broadband services to federal government customers.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Department of Defense should look beyond existing communication protocols — the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network and Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network — toward commercial solutions that support secure information sharing, say comms experts.

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WashngtonExec

JANUARY 23, 2025

Eric Trexler SVP of Public Sector, Palo Alto Networks Helping the Defense Department secure its network infrastructure by developing a zero-trust platform was no small feat for Eric Trexler and his team.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Hyperconverged infrastructure is a software-defined approach that unifies key components, including storage, computing, networking and management. But is this approach a viable cloud alternative? It essentially allows agencies to manage multiple infrastructure functions from a single control panel. HCI and cloud also share…

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A hybrid data center relies on cloud, software-defined networking and virtualization technologies to distribute applications across physical and multicloud environments. 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

MARCH 8, 2023

The Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System is a national network of high-powered computers that integrates meteorological and hydrological data with satellite and radar imagery. NWS forecasters use the technology to produce the reports and warnings they issue to the public.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2024

Even the most secure networks are expected to be in compliance with White House requirements to create a zero-trust environment. The Department of Defense has to develop three — one for its nonclassified network, another for its classified network and one more for its top-secret/sensitive network.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Air Force squadrons such as the 561st Network Operations Squadron are getting “a lot” of exposure to zero-trust security as they prepare to overhaul security architectures, according to its commander. Speaking Tuesday at the Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium 2023, Lt.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 21, 2023

Before the Department of Defense can shift from perimeter network defenses to cloud security, it must first verify that its zero-trust security systems work in the cloud.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Users be able to verify their information before entering the network, and they will need assistance in protecting those credentials. As federal agencies work towards a zero-trust environment, identity verification becomes critical.

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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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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The contract, formerly named JEDI, will have the four tech giants build the DOD’s cloud computing network. The Department of Defense recently announced it has awarded its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, a deal worth up to $9 billion through 2028.

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