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Workforce
Consumer Product Safety Commission failed to complete mandated future of work plan, report says
The agency tasked with preventing unreasonable risks of injury and death from consumer products has not yet completed a required plan that considers post-pandemic office reentry and property management strategies, according to an inspector general's report.
Digital Government
New federal website offers grants info and research to counter domestic terrorism
The Department of Homeland Security hopes a new website will serve as a one-stop shop for visitors aiming to prevent targeted violence and domestic terrorism with a slew of local and national federal resources.
Digital Government
FDIC fails to establish effective controls to secure sensitive data, report says
The agency tasked with supervising financial institutions nationwide is struggling to maintain effective information security measures, according to a new inspector general report.
Cybersecurity
Government employees and defense contractors still have got bad passwords, report says
According to new research, a majority of government employees with exposed passwords were found to have reused them across multiple accounts.
IT Modernization
White House seeks $74 billion for federal civilian IT in 2024
The administration is proposing a nearly $10 billion bump in federal spending to achieve its modernization goals, including several significant increases in spending on IT and cybersecurity at civilian agencies.
Cybersecurity
TSA issues cybersecurity amendment for aviation industry
The Transportation Security Administration has released a series of new performance-based cybersecurity measures for the aviation industry just days after the White House released its national cybersecurity strategy.
Workforce
Acting national cyber director offers new details on upcoming cyber workforce strategy
The forthcoming plan is meant to accompany an overarching cyber strategy released last week that industry groups and cybersecurity experts said would be challenging to implement given the nation’s cyber workforce woes.
Cybersecurity
Tech trade group leery of new regulations proposed in Biden's cyber strategy
The new national cybersecurity strategy calls for software providers to be held accountable for vulnerabilities in their products – a fundamental shift in approach that sparked concerns among some technology associations and firms.
Cybersecurity
National cyber strategy faces major implementation challenges, experts say
A depleted workforce, lack of funding and challenges with information sharing across the public and private sectors may severely hamper the federal government’s implementation of a new sweeping cybersecurity strategy, experts told FCW.
Cybersecurity
CISA advisory details red team attack on critical infrastructure organization
The report comes as the director of the nation’s cyber defense agency calls on Congress to establish “higher standards of care for software in specific critical infrastructure entities.”
Cybersecurity
White House to officially ban TikTok from government devices within 30 days
New guidance from the Office of Management and Budget finalizes a congressional push to ban the popular Chinese social networking app from all government devices amid privacy and security concerns.
Acquisition
The great power pivot and the intelligence community
The shift from terrorism to great power competition means changes in tech, acquisition and private-sector partnerships.
Digital Government
CDC technology office plans roadmap for public health data interoperability
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology is aiming to expand public health data sharing and nationwide health equity over the next two years.
Digital Government
GSA not tapping data on unauthorized access attempts at federal facilities, report says
The General Services Administration isn't using access card data to mitigate risks on federal property, according to a new report.
Cybersecurity
Census Bureau data susceptible to ‘reconstruction attacks’ exposing individual data, report claims
A team of computer scientists demonstrated how cybercriminals can leverage commercial laptops to reverse engineer the Bureau’s statistics, leaving Americans exposed to risks like identity theft and discrimination.
Defense
Navy looks to OTA consortium for advanced tech
The Naval Information Warfare Center is looking to leverage advances in artificial intelligence and other technology into new capabilities.
Acquisition
Small business participation in federal marketplace continues decline despite $159 billion in awards
The number of small businesses that received federal contracts in fiscal year 2022 was less than half the number that received contracts in 2012, according to a new report.
Acquisition
OIG finds oversight issues with GSA's performance-based contracts
GSA contracting personnel produced performance reports that were "often incomplete or not available at all," according to a new inspector general's audit.
Cybersecurity
House bill would put grid operators on a short clock for breach reporting
A cyber incident reporting bill making its way through Congress would task critical energy infrastructure owners and operators with reporting cyber incidents to the Department of Energy within 24-hours of their discovery.
Digital Government