The Department of Agriculture has awarded Aleut Information Technology a potential two-year contract to improve four USDA public websites and enhance user experience. Aleut is tasked to provide information technology consulting and professional services and design and upgrade the web portals of the Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, Farm Service Agency, Risk Management Agency […]
The leaders of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee have written letters to the Federal Communications Commission urging it not to share spectrum band allocations used for weather forecasting services. The warning follows the release of the Spectrum Pipeline Reallocation Engineering Study, which revealed that spectrum sharing between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]
ECS will migrate software, business workflows and forms to Microsoft SharePoint Online and modernize untransferrable legacy systems on Microsoft Power Platform under a support contract with the Internal Revenue Service. According to company president John Heneghan, the agreement will result in an enhanced experience for taxpayers and more efficient services. The deal has a two-year […]
The Transportation Security Administration will solicit input from the transportation industry about its plan to maximize the use of third-party assessors to ensure the compliance of critical pipeline and rail operators with its planned cybersecurity regulations. According to an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, comments should include the benefits or challenges that operators would face […]
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has revealed eight private-sector projects that will receive $100 million in investments under the Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential program, which is intended to aid in scaling and commercializing clean power technologies assessed as marketable. According to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, achieving the Biden administration’s […]
The U.S. Census Bureau has disputed a report from its inspector general regarding an unauthorized access incident during a red team exercise. According to the Census Bureau’s IG Office, the agency hired red team hackers who then gained unauthorized access to its systems. Red teams are supposed to be authorized hackers who would help organizations […]
The General Services Administration is looking for feedback on its implementation of LexisNexis Risk Solutions fraud prevention and identity verification measures on Login .gov, a unified authentication service for government websites. The agency is accepting comments on a notice posted to the Federal Register until Dec. 21. Jake Wiener, a law fellow specializing in domestic […]
The Small Business Administration has awarded Navancio a five-year, $23 million blanket purchase agreement for the development of a software-as-a-service program intended to automate and simplify processes, increasing productivity. The work falls under the Office of Disaster Assistance’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program, which is meant to modernize Salesforce capabilities, Navancio said Monday. SVOG was […]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has recommended that companies have limitations in harvesting and selling online user data. NTIA was responding to the Federal Trade Commission‘s request for advice on developing an online privacy network. The NTIA submitted a document that discussed how data is collected from online users and outlines the issues data […]
The National Institutes of Health has launched a new website that will allow the public to anonymously report positive or negative results of self-administered COVID-19 tests. MakeMyTestCount.org was developed through NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostic technology program with support from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Rapid test kits are now widely used […]
