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The Office of Management and Budget has begun soliciting feedback on draft guidance meant to modernize and strengthen the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The draft memorandum seeks to define the scope of cloud offerings subject to FedRAMP, foster a consistent and transparent process for conducting security assessment and authoriza...
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget have issued a memorandum outlining the current administration’s research and development priorities to guide federal agencies as they formulate their budget submissions for fiscal year 2025. One of the multiagency R&D priorities is advancing trustwo...
The Defense Department, NASA and the General Services Administration have issued an interim rule prohibiting the use of TikTok by federal contractors. A Federal Register notice published Friday says the policy amends the Federal Acquisition Regulation to ban the video-sharing application or successor apps developed by ByteDance on certain equipment ...
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and other administration officials met with the chief executives of Alphabet, Anthropic, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and OpenAI to discuss the importance of responsible innovation in the artificial intelligence field. The meeting came after the White House unveiled initiatives to ensure AI technology adoption will not ...
By Kevin Plexico, Senior Vice President of Information Solutions at Deltek In March, the Office of Management and Budget officially released the Biden Administration’s initial fiscal year 2024 discretionary budget request. This initial budget proposal includes a total of approximately $1.8 trillion in top-line discretionary budget requests fo...
The U.S. federal government has sharpened its focus on cybersecurity in recent months; the Department of Defense released its zero trust strategy and roadmap at the close of 2022, and the Biden-Harris administration debuted a new national cybersecurity strategy just last week. In a statement published March 2, 2023 the White House said the...
Office of Management and Budget and Department of Labor heads issued a joint memorandum to guide federal agencies following recommendations made by the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment to bolster contract labor and employment practices. The Jan. 10 memo from OMB Director Shalanda Young and DOL Secretary Martin Walsh emphas...
Zero trust has become a major area of focus for the U.S. government in the last few years. As federal agencies move to the cloud, extend capabilities to the tactical edge and accelerate their modernization efforts, zero trust is changing the way our country’s critical infrastructure, assets and data are protected. Learn more about zero...
Joel Krooswyk, federal chief technology officer at GitLab (Nasdaq: GTLB), said “open source developers take pride in their code” and their commitment to security reflects through their collaborative efforts to quickly address vulnerabilities. “Neither corporate nor individual contributors want their names on code that has vulnerabilities. Ther...
Nick Heudecker, senior director of market strategy at Cribl, said the 2021 cybersecurity executive order has pushed federal agencies to take a closer look at zero trust, endpoint detection and response and supply chain security and implement a layered security architecture. Heudecker wrote that the EO has resulted in the development of the Office of...
