National Security Agency

FILE - This March 27, 2020 file photo shows the signature of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill in Washington. Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Why the National Security Agency overpaid contractors during the height of the pandemic

Remember the CARES Act, enacted at the height of the pandemic? Among other things, it let agencies reimburse contractors to pay employees unable to work…

Agency Oversight

Zero Trust Cyber Exchange: NSA’s Kevin Bingham on innovating in a legacy environment

Cybersecurity

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NSA quietly re-awarded its Wild and Stormy cloud contract

Reporter's Notebook

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Intel agencies advance artificial intelligence in patches, struggle with big breakthroughs

Intelligence Community

President Joe Biden speaks about status of the country's fight against COVID-19 in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, March 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden admin. hopes to make government services more inclusive for transgender people

Federal Newscast

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CISA highlights new reporting hotline amid warnings about potential Russian cyber attacks

Inside the IC

How to button up a cybersecurity risk on every computer in the government

Cybersecurity

FILE - In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Transportation Security Administration officers wear protective masks at a security screening area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. The Biden administration says it is moving to increase the pay and union rights for security screeners at the nation’s airports. The Department of Homeland Security directed the acting head of the TSA to come up with a plan within 90 days to raise the pay of the screeners and expand their rights to collective bargaining. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Exposed to COVID-19 on the job? New website lets you join class-action lawsuit for hazard pay

Federal Newscast

Ukrainian servicemen sit atop armored personnel carriers driving on a road in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a military operation in Ukraine and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to

Ukraine: It’s both professional and personal

Federal Report

Defense industrial base competitiveness report irked some services contractors

Defense

Energy Department looks to build cyber threat detection platform for electric grid

Cybersecurity

What the NSA has learned from a year of external cybersecurity collaboration

For more than a year, the National Security Agency has been sharing cybersecurity threat information with defense industrial base companies. The idea is…

Cybersecurity

DoD brings in the academics to help it with cybersecurity knowledge

The Defense Department is establishing stronger ties with colleges and universities focused on a single urgent issue.

Cybersecurity

Biden says defense, intel agencies have to follow cyber EO requirements, too

Defense News

A new national security memorandum sets deadlines for defense and intelligence agencies to implement things like multifactor authentication, encryption, cloud technologies and endpoint detection.