The Office of Management and Budget and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are developing a standardized form that software providers will use to certify their compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Secure Software Development Framework. Speaking at an event hosted by the Alliance for Digital Innovation, Chris DeRusha, federal chief information […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will make available the Logging Made Easy tool to public and private sector stakeholders this summer. The National Cyber Security Centre of the United Kingdom originally developed and managed the LME until March 2023. CISA announced on Thursday it will build on NCSC’s work and expand the LME’s centralized logging capabilities. […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Peraton a potential eight-year, $399.3 million contract to operate and maintain a ground network that coordinates polar-orbiting environmental satellites owned by the agency and its partners. Known as the Joint Polar Satellite System, NOAA’s low-Earth orbit constellation is used to collect data for predicting weather and studying […]
Argonne National Laboratory held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Argonne Quantum Foundry research facility on Wednesday. The creation of the foundry, which is part of Argonne’s quantum information science effort, was led by Q-NEXT, one of the five National Quantum Information Science Research Centers of the Department of Energy. The foundry will make quantum materials […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate are collaborating to determine the risks and benefits associated with emerging technologies like advanced sensors, artificial intelligence and simulation, which the agencies aim to deploy, Nextgov reported. CISA Associate Chief of Strategic Technology Garfield Jones said during a government […]
The Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative‘s industrial control systems wing has added Palo Alto, California-based Xage Security to its ranks. JCDC is a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-managed group of public and private sector organizations tasked with coordinating digital operations and planning responses to incidents. Its ICS wing was established in 2022 to consolidate efforts to […]
The Department of Agriculture is establishing a fellowship-style digital services team within the Office of the Chief Information Office to modernize agency systems. Arianne Gallagher-Welcher is currently the only member of the USDA Digital Service. She was hired in December 2022 as its executive director in charge of forming the team. According to Gallagher-Welcher, a […]
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are building an automated, artificial intelligence-guided, robot-operated laboratory to speed up materials science discoveries. The laboratory, called the A-Lab, can process up to 100 times as many samples as humans can using AI. The facility can help scientists working on solar cells, fuel cells, thermoelectrics […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking small businesses to provide the agency with data and analysis on semiconductor manufacturing equipment and fabrication plants to properly evaluate businesses applying to receive funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. Under the law, NIST must allocate $50 billion in funding meant to strengthen the domestic […]
A new Office of Management and Budget memorandum sets a 30-day deadline for federal organizations to update telework plans aimed at transitioning employees back to in-person work. It also gives agencies 60 days to submit plans for customer-facing units and 90 days for senior leaders such as chief information and technology officers to assess their […]
