The federal IT community is still laden with cybersecurity, workforce and acquisition issues according to a new report from the Federal CIO and the General Services Administration.
In 2017, the Air Force will be looking to update legacy platforms, strengthening mission systems, implementing cybersecurity and making personnel more secure, according to FCW.
The General Services Administration’s acquisition gateway, a keystone for the agency’s category management strategy, expanded its IT resources and access in 2016.
The Federal Aviation Administration is leading a bid to get contractors to develop a solution to free up spectrum by combining surveillance, air safety and weather radar applications into a single system by 2024.
Thirty-one percent of the approximately 1,200 .gov domains failed to migrate to the HTTPS communications protocol by New Year's Eve, as mandated by the Office of Management and Budget in June 2015.
The $6 billion First Responder Network Authority missed the Nov. 1 deadline for the contract pertaining to its nationwide broadband public safety network.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has passed an IT modernization bill that combines the Obama administration’s $3.1 billion IT Modernization Fund proposal and a bipartisan cloud adoption bill that originated in the Senate.
Agencies that interact with civilians are beginning to learn from the private sector and are exploring agile methods of delivering user-centric services.
The Veterans Affairs Department is starting to see progress after switching to using the NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center as a starting point for its cloud procurement.
