The program management office for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has introduced a training series to help third-party assessment organizations plan and audit the security of government cloud service offerings.
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Tracee Boxley, acting chief information officer of the Government Publishing Office since November 2016, has been promoted to serve as GPO CIO on a full-time basis. She has led the GPO’s technology infrastructure modernization,
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The Senate voted 52-41 Monday to confirm Ajit Pai for another five-year term as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Reuters reported Tuesday. Pai said in a statement that he aims to continue focusing on
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The National Space Council will look to establish policies to reinvigorate the country’s space missions such as human exploration of the moon, Space News reported Thursday. Vice President Mike Pence, chairman of
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved a bill, sponsored by Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire), that would establish a bug bounty pilot program at the
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Christopher Krebs, acting undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security‘s cybersecurity and critical infrastructure division, has said that DHS created a task force that will oversee the security of state and local
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The Federal Communications Commission has given 52 states and territories until Dec. 28 to decide whether to accept or opt out of the First Responder Network Authority’s plan to build a national public safety
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The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency has launched a website that serves as a searchable database of audit reports from offices of the inspector general across the federal government.
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Eric Burger, former director of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Security and Software Engineering Research Center, has been appointed to serve as the Federal Communications Commission‘s next chief technology officer. He will succeed Henning Schulzrinne,
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David Garcia, former chief information officer for the state of Maryland, has been appointed to the same position at the Office of Personnel Management. OPM said Monday Garcia led Maryland’s information technology
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