Funding from the Department of Energy amounting to $45 million is going toward projects aimed at integrating clean energy sources onto the U.S. electric grid. The projects support the Biden administration’s goal of decarbonizing the country’s electricity sector by 2035. The funding, which will create a new $25 million consortium, will help advance the development […]
The Department of Commerce plans to launch an enterprise-wide information technology contract to accelerate tech procurement, minimize the cost of infrastructure upgrades and establish the agency as a federal leader in IT. The Commerce Acquisition for Transformational Technology Services contract covers six task areas: chief information officer support, digital document and records management, managed service […]
The Canton Group, a provider of innovative technology solutions, has received a contract to provide the Department of Transportation‘s Office of Inspector General website with information technology operations support and maintenance services. The recent award marks the second contract that the firm won from the DOT OIG. Canton created the DOT OIG’s public-facing Drupal website […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been ramping up its efforts to adopt zero trust cybersecurity principles, according to a top department official. Royce Allen, director of enterprise security architecture at VA, said the department needs to review what areas it needs to protect amid a changing cyber threat landscape, GovernmentCIO Media and Research reported […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is using facial biometric comparison technology to verify the identities of arriving passengers at seaports amid the resumption of cruise ship travel. The technology, estimated to be more than 98 percent accurate, is available at 12 seaports across the country and has mostly been used to clear cruise passengers in […]
The U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Procurement Executive is poised to make major policy changes in a bid to efficiently and effectively meet current and future mission support challenges. The agency is transitioning to a new strategic framework, an official close to the program said. Senior procurement executive Mike Derrios told Homeland Security […]
Three collaborative projects led by five universities will receive a combined $15.1 million in funding from the Department of Energy. According to the DOE, the efforts are aimed at advancing the development of a “flexible, multi-tiered” data and computational infrastructure to support a collection of on-demand scientific data processing tasks and computationally intensive simulations. The […]
The Department of Labor has established a team of agency officials and industry experts to identify what needs to be done in order to achieve zero trust. The creation of the public-private sector team was necessary to keep up with the tight deadlines imposed by President Joe Biden in his recent cybersecurity executive order, according […]
The National Archives and Records Administration, a federal agency responsible for preserving historically valuable records, has released a draft of its plan to make digital records more accessible to the public. The draft version of NARA’s 2022-2026 Strategic Plan outlines the changes that the agency believes it needs to make before it can fully embrace […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the first revision to its flagship cyber resiliency guidance with updated controls and a single threat taxonomy. A product of the institute’s Systems Security Engineering initiative, the guidance reflects the latest cyber resiliency implementation approaches for engineers to address known hacker tactics laid out in the […]
