A new House bill aims to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin the process of updating its two legacy IT systems that manage and report on air quality data throughout the country. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reached a new milestone in its classified cloud effort by migrating more than 300,000 Department of Defense (DoD) users into the new secret environment, the agency announced via LinkedIn on April 22. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded at least 47 task orders under its $9 billion multi-vendor cloud contract and expects to deliver more in the coming year, DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman told lawmakers on Friday. […]
The Cloud Safe Task Force – comprised of four nonprofits: MITRE, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC), and the IT Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC) – published a paper on Feb. 14 offering recommendations for Congress, the White House, Federal agencies, and industry to improve government cloud security. […]
A Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) official said today that the agency’s ongoing pilot efforts to provide cloud services to military service branches outside the continental U.S. (OCONUS) are proceeding well thus far, but that the ultimate goal of the pilots – to make overseas cloud services easy to use for all warfighting use cases – still remains on the horizon. […]
Although Federal agencies received low marks in the new cloud computing category of the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard issued today by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., tech leaders from several agencies expressed gratitude for creation of the new category and shared plans to improve their scores going forward. […]
The downward trend in overall agency grades on the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard issued by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., today reflects two big changes in how the latest scorecard was assembled – one of which Federal agencies can do something about going forward, and another that they cannot. […]
While the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed new guidance to overhaul the General Services Administration’s (GSA) FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) program in October 2023, a new watchdog report is pushing both agencies to move quickly to finalize new program rules. […]
The Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee (FSCAC) is looking to fill four open seats on its 15-member board that advises and provides recommendations to the General Services Administration (GSA) administrator, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Board, and Federal agencies. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking for information that will support the agency’s Advanced Analytics Platform For Machine Learning (CAP-M) Project – a program under development at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – to support new software and tools in a multi-tenant cloud environment. […]
The importance of technology “observability” has been growing by “leaps and bounds” as Federal agencies continue their journeys to the cloud and strive to meet government mandates, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said on Dec. 12. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) $9 billion multi-vendor cloud contract, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC), has made more than $260 million in task order awards as it approaches the one-year mark, a DoD official said on Nov. 14. […]
As Federal government agencies are fast-tracking their secure multi-cloud journeys, experts this week urged agencies to take a “trust, but verify” approach to cloud security, which may require a cultural change across organizations. […]
Top officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are getting first use of the department’s secret-level version of Microsoft 365 delivered in an Impact Level 6 (IL6) cloud environment – and aptly named DoD365-Secret – a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
With the growing need to get cloud service capabilities online and operational across the Federal government, the chief information officer at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is making clear that agencies do not need to employ an “army” to get started on that work. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is providing some insight into the first task orders awarded under the DoD’s $9 billion multi-vendor cloud contract, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC). […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched the first two of three major cloud solicitations under its STRATUS program, taking the first steps toward creating a set of enterprise wide cloud contracts. […]
Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., introduced bipartisan legislation on Sept. 21 that aims to modernize and streamline the adoption of cloud computing technology in Federal agencies. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC) is turning to industry partners to help support the agency’s initiative to modernize and transform its data centers into hybrid cloud centers. […]
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Department of Defense (DoD) needs to do better in mitigating the effects of restrictive practices by cloud service vendors – from choice of provider to the cost of cloud services – as it moves its data and software to the cloud. […]
The Defense Department (DoD) needs to do a better job at tracking and reporting cloud computing data transfer user fees, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report out this week. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) $9 billion multi-vendor cloud contract made more than $200 million in task order awards, and more are on the way, a top DoD technology official said on August 16. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is pushing agencies to implement security measures to protect their cloud computing services against cyberattacks, following the July hack of Federal agency cloud-based email accounts by China-based threat actors. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has launched a new cloud capability available outside of the contiguous United States and is on the cusp of releasing further cloud capabilities, according to a DISA official. […]
The Pentagon’s top technology official is pushing defense agencies and components to use the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract for all future cloud acquisitions and top-secret cloud capabilities. […]
Throughout the Federal government, agencies are continuing to move to cloud infrastructures to speed IT modernization and improve cybersecurity. […]
A new bipartisan House bill is calling on four Federal agencies to draft a roadmap for implementation of multi-cloud software technology with an aim to ensuring secure, widespread use across the government. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is looking to align its cloud pricing and invoicing with industry practices, according to a request for information (RFI) posted this week. […]
Throughout the Federal government, agencies are continuing to move to cloud infrastructures to speed IT modernization and improve cybersecurity. But post-migration, their work is far from done. They must compare pre- and post-migration performance, continue training IT teams, and stay alert for potential data compromise and other issues. […]
Cloud services can help financial institutions become more resilient and secure, but a recent report from the Treasury Department found that there are some challenges that can take away from these benefits. […]