Alliance for Digital Innovation

CISA provides agencies with long-awaited cloud security guidance

Agencies have made a wholesale push to the cloud, and now they have corresponding security guidance under CISA’s Trusted Internet Connections 3.0.

Cybersecurity

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Biden seeks a higher standard for federal customer experience. How well is it already working?

Management

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FILE - In this May 13, 2021, file photo, Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on unaccompanied minors at the southern border, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Portman announced earlier this year that he would not run again. The Senate primary in Ohio is still a year away, but Republican contenders already are working furiously to cast themselves as Trump's favorite in the open race. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP, File)

Senators see room in FedRAMP bill to address supply chain security threats

Cloud Computing

Venable LLP

Ross Nodurft, executive director of the Alliance for Digital Innovation. Nodurft joined ADI after nearly three years as senior director of cybersecurity services at Venable. From 2015 to 2017, he served as chief of the cyber team in the White House Office of Management and Budget. He also served as a staffer in the Senate, including as senior policy advisor from 2013 through 2014 to then-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) when she was chairwoman of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee.

Former White House, Senate staffer to lead cloud-based tech group

IT Modernization

The underlying process for GWACs hasn’t changed since 1994; ADI says it’s time

Acquisition

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Former House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, speaks during a hearing on the FY2019 budget with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer David L. Norquist, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 12, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Buy vs. build debate for software heats back up with letter to White House

Acquisition Policy

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Federal CIO Martorana: $1B TMF lets agencies ‘apply for projects that previously were out of their reach’

Reporter's Notebook

OMB tells agencies how they can win some of the $1B in the Technology Modernization Fund

IT Modernization

Sen. Hassan’s technical fix of MGT Act is a major step to overhaul latest IT modernization challenges

Reporter's Notebook

Technology Modernization Fund on track to receive biggest pay day ever

Reporter's Notebook

Modern cloud technology. Integrated digital web concept vector background

Industry persuades DISA to change market research approach for cloud acquisition

Reporter's Notebook

President-elect Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during an event at The Queen theater, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Biden proposal calls investments in federal IT ‘an urgent national security issue’

President-elect Biden announces American Rescue Plan that includes significant funding increases for federal technology and cybersecurity to address long-standing…

Budget

Making best-in-class contracts better for innovation

In recent years, federal acquisition policy and practice has been a competition between two different priorities: Efficiency and innovation. Instead of…

Commentary

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Special Report: Benefits of Technology Modernization Fund validated

Reporter's Notebook

New data collected by Federal News Network demonstrates that the agencies which took loans are moving faster, modernizing legacy systems and — hold on to your hats — paying back the loan to the TMF Board.