Federal News Network

MAY 6, 2025

When it comes to IT shared services, Tony Arcadi likes to use a familiar analogy. The former Treasury Department chief information officer, who recently retired from federal service after 28 years, likes to compare centralized IT services to a value meal at a fast food restaurant where you get your sandwich, fries and drink for one price.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Addressing underrepresentation in the IT workforce is the first step toward developing a robust pipeline of Native American IT professionals, according to Monday’s multipanel session at TribalNet 2024.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The Office of Personnel Management will lean heavily on artificial intelligence as it leverages a recent Technology Modernization award to update legacy mainframe programs for its retirement systems, according to an agency spokesperson. The latter approach would take five years, according to the spokesperson.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The General Services Administration has awarded its Polaris small business governmentwide acquisition contract for IT services to 102 vendors, with awards for other types of vendors on the way. Unlike its predecessor, the new Polaris contract doesnt have an award ceiling.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

With the most recent Federal Information Security Modernization Act report cataloging 11 major incidents among government agencies in fiscal 2023, there is a clear need to continue improving overall cybersecurity. A key component is the federal identity credential and access management program created in 2009.

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FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency lacks a complete and accurate inventory of its information systems and software asset management data, according to the agencys Office of Inspector General. Additionally, senior information officials and relevant IT personnel should be made aware of that designation.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Addressing underrepresentation in the IT workforce is the first step toward developing a robust pipeline of Native American IT professionals, according to Monday’s multipanel session at TribalNet 2024.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Federal agencies face a wide range of cybersecurity threats, including ransomware, insider attacks and phishing attacks. Some of these threats come from relatively new vectors such as Internet of Things devices. Others are much older and elemental, including memory safety.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 9, 2025

Raft, a technology consulting firm, has received a contract valued at $25.1 million from the U.S. Air Force to provide cloud computing and IT integration 2.0

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Patrick Fredericks shared on LinkedIn Saturday that he has been elevated to vice president of enterprise IT at General Dynamics Information Technology. As the new technology VP, Fredericks will oversee GDIT’s enterprise IT offerings, including independent research and development and delivery efforts.

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource pilot is an important but limited step in getting agencies to start planning to integrate AI technology into their work, according to an NVIDIA spokesperson. Led by the U.S.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

Customs and Border Protection will recompete the Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge, or BEAGLE, IT contract. The agency plans to purchase the required services via the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule, according to a pre-solicitation notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 11, 2025

Department of Defense acquisition programs need to be radically reformed to keep pace with technological advancements and adversaries' adoption of new technologies, the U.S. Government Accountability Office told a House subcommittee Wednesday.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 11, 2025

Government customers expect the technology resellers they work with to employ certain sustainability practices, such as IT asset disposition, to maintain compliance with environmental, cybersecurity and human rights regulations.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2025

Last year, the Office of Management and Budget released FedRAMP guidance intended to make it easier and faster for federal agencies to put cloud solutions to work. Since the establishment of FedRAMP in 2011, cloud solutions have exploded, and they continue to grow exponentially.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The White House recently released a memo directing agencies to align part of their fiscal 2026 budgets with the five pillars of the National Cybersecurity Strategy, as part of its response to escalating…

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For instance, the National Security Agency uses a mix of Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) solutions, its own instances of a top-secret cloud, Hardware as a Service and on-premises offerings. The long-term reasons why we…

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FedScoop

MARCH 14, 2025

Graber comes to government after a long career in the private sector, where his experience includes managing Googles security and privacy technical program for four years and joining Twitter before it became X as an information security manager and then a risk and data analytics senior manager, according to his LinkedIn.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The General Services Administration announced Wednesday that it has awarded IBM a 15-year, $903.5 million contract to provide a next-generation travel and expense management service for the federal government. All chief financial officers across federal agencies (except for the Department of Defense) will be required to use the new system.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 19, 2025

Federal IT and cybersecurity teams dealing with critical infrastructure must take steps to build supply chain resilience in light of increased risk.

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FedScoop

MAY 19, 2025

Elon Musks DOGE isnt about efficiency its about destruction. We should not let this administration tear down our best defenses against those trying to attack us in cyberspace.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2025

Data poisoning presents an imposing cyberthreat to artificial intelligence amid agencies digital transformations because its designed to be subtle. By injecting malicious or misleading data into training data sets, adversaries manipulate AI models to produce biased, inaccurate or even harmful results.

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Federal News Network

MAY 23, 2025

The Office of Personnel Management is taking a second bite at the apple to modernize its human resources platform. OPM released a new request for proposals on Thursday through the General Services Administration schedules program for a secure, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) human capital management (HCM) platform.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Some of the most aggressive innovation happening at the federal level is centered on digital asset tracking and management, far beyond the supply chain environments you might expect to see in production facilities, warehouses and distribution centers.

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Federal News Network

MAY 16, 2025

Transportation Command hoped the $17.9 billion Global Household Goods (GHC) contract would be ready to handle all of the militarys stateside moves by this summers peak season. The most recent data TRANSCOM was willing to provide through the beginning of April showed that GHC had been assigned about 25% of DoDs moving volume.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Army needs to improve its IT asset management to complement its security operations and create a more robust environment for the modern warfighter, according to CDW Government technology experts. Asset management refers to the steering of hardware and software, including applications, through their lifecycles, from…

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 9, 2025

A clause in the Defense Authorization law for 2025 has procurement attorneys sitting up in their chairs. It calls on the Defense Department and the Government Accountability Office to develop a plan to test a novel idea: having companies that lose bid protests to repay DoD for legal costs. Chris Griesedieck: No, it’s not. Tom Temin: Wow.

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FedScoop

MARCH 11, 2025

As we advance our understanding of future quantum computers and adapt to emerging cryptanalysis techniques, its essential to have a fallback in case ML-KEM proves to be vulnerable, Dustin Moody, a mathematician who leads the agencys post-quantum cryptography project, said in a statement included in the release.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 28, 2024

million in TMF funds, NARA will upgrade two outdated IT systems no longer supported by its vendor with new cloud-based software. The new applications improve efficiencies and provide veterans and their families — and hundreds of federal agencies — with faster, more reliable and secure access to records.

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Federal News Network

MAY 13, 2025

As the background for listeners, the system for award management, or SAM, is an important database that the government maintains for all prime contractors at least, and often a lot of subcontractors and recipients of grants, etc. It has big ramifications. That went to the Court of Federal Claims with the decision last year. This is good to go.

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FedScoop

APRIL 24, 2025

Connolly said in a press release that the reauthorization bill is a welcome show of support for the [TMF] and the critical goal that drove its creation bringing federal IT into the 21st century. It requires a serious, stable and deliberate approach.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 18, 2024

Before the advent of cloud computing and self-service tech, IT professionals often drowned customers in tech jargon. But the industry’s evolution has brought a new way to interface with technology. Today, tech is intuitive and a lot more user-friendly. A toddler can master a tablet in minutes without any instruction. Agencies may cling…

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FedScoop

MAY 27, 2025

Most of those agreements were categorized as micro purchases, meaning a value below $25,000. Contracts at that level are not required to be entered into the Federal Procurement Data System. DOGEs website provides links to FPDS pages for contracts that it has terminated. DOGE has canceled six SBA contracts since February, including four on May 23.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Additionally, FBI staffers interviewed by the OIG said some tech-savvy potential hires are unable to pass background investigations, and recruitment efforts are stymied due to the fact that non-agent positions have less opportunity for upward mobility within the bureau.

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2025

The General Services Administrations move to FedRAMP 20x should make it easier for agencies to monitor the compliance of cloud-based artificial intelligence systems in real time.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 8, 2025

Almost since the dawn of networked computing, the intelligence community has worked under self-imposed handicaps.

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 28, 2025

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security and Technology will rely on DOEs 17 National Laboratories to build potentially the most powerful integrated scientific AI systems in the world.

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