Labor union leaders attended a White House listening session on June 30 about the potential benefits and risks of artificial intelligence. Such groups have voiced concerns about the technology’s potential impact on job security, health and civil rights. Union representatives at the event included Amanda Ballantyne, director of the American Federation of Labor and Congress […]
Caitlin Conley, senior adviser to the director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has been tasked to support election security efforts by leading partnership engagement and coordination efforts with relevant officials. Her new duties were announced by CISA Director Jen Easterly, who emphasized that protecting elections is one of the organization’s chief priorities. Easterly, […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted Snowflake provisional authorization to operate at Impact Level 4 in the U.S.-West region of Amazon Web Services GovCloud. By acquiring IL4 clearance, the company is now allowed to handle controlled unclassified information such as personally identifiable information and expert controlled data. Jeff Frazier, Snowflake’s head of global public […]
The Government Accountability Office has published a report calling for the appointment of a permanent national cyber director to oversee efforts to address cyber threats to the United States. Currently, Kemba Walden is the acting head of the Office of the National Cyber Director. She succeeded Chris Inglis, who resigned from the role earlier in […]
Congress has received word of a data breach impacting the Department of Health and Human Services that potentially compromised the information of over 100,000 individuals. The attack involved the exploitation of a weakness in Progress Software’s MOVEit, a file transfer solution used by various government agencies and commercial firms. According to the HHS official that […]
Carahsoft Technology has teamed up with Coalfire and Google Public Sector to deliver tools designed to speed up the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authority to operate certification process and expand access to business opportunities with the government. Carahsoft is expected to distribute Coalfire’s FedRAMP products and advisory services to federal, state and institutional […]
The Office of Naval Research has awarded Saab a $13 million grant for Threat and Situational Understanding with Networked-Online Machine Intelligence, a program aimed at enhancing military situational awareness by building artificial intelligence to support threat identification and analysis in complex scenarios. TSUNOMI capabilities will first be installed on a U.S. Navy unmanned surface vessel. […]
The Mitchell Institute has released a report detailing gaps in the U.S. Space Force’s counter-space deterrence. According to Charles Galbreath, the report’s author and senior resident fellow for space studies at the institute’s aerospace studies department, the service currently lacks the technology to defend against adversary attacks aimed at disabling satellites and command and control […]
Gen. David Berger, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, recently said more efforts are needed to have unmanned systems support amphibious operations. During a keynote address at the Modern Day Marine conference on Tuesday, he noted that the service should look into putting robotic technology to use in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance activities such as […]
The National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have issued guidelines on implementing best practices to protect DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery environments in the cloud. In a cybersecurity information sheet, the two agencies prescribe development tools and proper authentication and access methods to properly harden CI/CD pipelines, which are processes meant to […]
