The Small Business Administration‘s posture in most major cybersecurity domains was below what is required to be deemed effective, the agency’s auditor said in a new report. SBA’s Office of Inspector General looked at the agency’s performance in nine categories: risk management, supply chain risk management, configuration management, identity and access management, data protection and […]
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate is seeking commercially available tools that can help emergency responders extract people trapped in cars. S&T said that the tools will support its National Urban Security Technology Laboratory, an organization responsible for ensuring the performance, safety and reliability of the technologies used by emergency responders. NUSTL […]
The Office of Management and Budget has appointed Karin Orvis as chief statistician. She was also named branch chief for statistical and science policy at the OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. As chief statistician, Orvis will oversee a decentralized network of federal statistical agencies and will be responsible for providing data that will […]
The Office of Management and Budget has designated the Office of Personnel Management as the government’s new quality services management office for civilian human resources transactions. QSMOs are responsible for managing a marketplace of competitive solutions for technology and services for customer agencies. The Trump administration established the QSMO program in April 2019 to reform […]
The General Services Administration is asking industry for help in determining whether it should pursue facial recognition technology for Login .gov, the government’s single sign-on service. In a new request for information published April 25, GSA said it wants to conduct a study on whether identity verification technologies, including facial recognition, can meet equity standards […]
The Department of Energy has issued a request for information for a potential $2.3 billion grant program aimed at modernizing the United States power grid. The department wants to ensure that the critical infrastructure will be safe from wildfires, extreme weather and other natural disasters. The program was established through President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general said the agency failed to comply with the Federal Acquisition Regulation at least once by paying Cerner for a task order even before work was performed. Under FAR, agencies must first accept the delivery of goods or services before paying contractors. According to the oversight body, the VA […]
ICF, a strategic consulting company, announced that it has been re-awarded a spot on a $94 million Federal Highway Administration blanket purchase agreement to improve U.S. transportation systems. The five-year, multiple-award BPA calls for technical services in support of next-generation multimodal transportation management systems, ICF said Tuesday. According to the company, it will support FHWA […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $504.4 million in conditional funding for a large-scale project to build a green hydrogen production and storage facility. DOE will award the funding to Advanced Clean Energy Storage I, Mitsubishi Power Americas, Magnum Development and Haddington Ventures. The debt financing would go to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage Project […]
Reggie Townsend, director of the data ethics practice at SAS, will serve on a high-level artificial intelligence government advisory committee. As a member of the National AI Advisory Committee, Townsend is now part of a team tasked with advising the president and the White House’s National AI Initiative Office, WRAL TechWire reported. The Department of […]
