Sera-Brynn, a cybersecurity risk management company, announced that it has renewed its accreditation as a third-party assessment organization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP is a government-wide program designed to grade the security of cloud-based products and services offered to federal agencies. Sera-Brynn said that the re-accreditation followed a stringent evaluation by […]
Lawmakers have introduced a bill seeking to require agencies to modernize outdated information technology systems. Within a year of the Legacy IT Reduction Act of 2022‘s enactment, the chief information officers of each agency must create a list of the legacy IT systems that the organization uses, operates or maintains. The White House’s Office of […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted authorization for DLH Holdings’ Infinibyte Cloud solution, signifying that the offering has undergone a security capabilities assessment. The authorization also means that Infinibyte meets the enhanced data security requirements set by the Department of Defense and other government agencies. Infinibyte Cloud is a platform-as-a-service offering that […]
The organization managing the Technology Modernization Fund will only award loans for information technology projects with the “greatest chance of success,” a federal official said. TMF is a government-wide program authorized in 2017 that finances modernization projects proposed by government agencies. Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana, chair of the TMF Board, said that agencies […]
The Department of Defense considers cloud migration a requirement for software modernization, a top technology official said. In early February, the Pentagon published a software modernization strategy that establishes its enterprise software goals and supersedes its 2018 cloud strategy. Danielle Metz, the DOD’s deputy chief information officer for information enterprise, said the department opted not […]
A $200 million Artificial Intelligence and Development Fund has been integrated into the 2022 defense budget to hasten the Pentagon’s adoption of cutting-edge technology for the use of combatant commands. However, lawmakers first want Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin to explain how he intends to use the money before it is released, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. […]
The U.S. Navy has started laying down the foundations for digital infrastructure that will allow for the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in contested environments. According to a report from the Congressional Research Service, AI will play a crucial role in the service’s unmanned surface vehicles. AI and ML would also be […]
Artificial intelligence developers should look at more factors when rooting out potential bias in their algorithms, according to a report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Reva Schwartz, the principal investigator for AI bias at NIST and one of the report’s authors, said developers should not only focus on bias in machine learning […]
The Government Publishing Office, an agency that makes government documents available to the public, is looking into modernizing the documentation software used on Capitol Hill. GPO supports all three branches of government and is responsible for producing documents such as U.S. passports for the Department of State as well as official publications of Congress, the […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Government a FedRAMP+ authorization. The designation allows Oracle to offer the OCI for Government platform to the Intelligence Community. The OCI for Government platform provides federal agencies with various infrastructure and applications, such as the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and the Oracle […]
