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House bill protects homeland security budget
Tags: DoD , House , Congress , budget , Harold Rogers
Strategic sourcing at DHS
Nick Nayak, Kevin Boshears, and Peter Ko from the Department of Homeland Security will discuss how strategic sourcing has helped the agency achieve its small business goals.
May 14, 2013
Tags: acquisition , contracting , Nick Nayak , Kevin Boshears , small and disadvantaged business , small business , SBA , strategic sourcing , strategic sourcing program office , Roger Waldron , Off the Shelf
DHS putting post-FISMA approach to cyber through a trial run
Three Department of Homeland Security components are testing how ongoing authorizations work. The Office of Management and Budget is drafting a memo to require agencies to change from approving the cybersecurity of systems every three years to a more regular oversight schedule.
Tags: technology , Jeff Eisensmith , OMB , Coast Guard , Mark Powell , Larry DeNayer , Citizenship and Immigration Services , cybersecurity , continuous monitoring , ongoing authorizations , ACT-IAC , Jason Miller
Richard Spires resigns from DHS CIO post
After taking administrative leave for nearly two months, Richard Spires has decided to step down as chief information officer of the Homeland Security Department.
Tags: Richard Spires , people
EPA, HUD search for ways to keep mid-career feds
Mid-career employees are a scarcity in government. While agencies are awash with employees at the early career stage and those with 20-plus years of federal service, there aren't enough in the middle stages, and that has federal managers worried. Agencies like EPA and HUD are taking matters into their own hands. Both are launching new efforts aimed at keeping mid-career feds from leaving government for the private sector.
Tags: HUD , Shaun Donovan , Janet Napolitano , EPA , Bob Perciasepe , GSA , Dan Tangherlini , Partnership for Public Service , Public Service Recognition Week , employee morale , Jason Miller
DHS seeks vendor to update agencywide identity management system
The Homeland Security Department released a draft performance work statement to vendors. The draft PWS details DHS' needs to use HSPD-12 cards for computer network and building access.
Tags: technology , contracting , industry , identity management , HSPD-12 , Jason Miller
Arrested student entered US without visa
One of three college students arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the United States from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa.
Tags: Customs and Border Protection , Boston bombings
Inside the Reporter's Notebook: Communication breakdown over FITARA? Lawmaker wants answers from DHS
News and buzz in the acquisition and IT communities that you may have missed this week.
Tags: technology , Joe Jordan , Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act , Rich Beutel , Richard Spires , Bennie Thompson , House Homeland Security Committee , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , OFPP , OMB , Margie Graves , cybersecurity , Andy Ozment , Inside the Reporters Notebook , Jason Miller , exclusive
Agencies applying threat intelligence to stem tide of cyber attacks
The idea behind cyber threat intelligence is to understand more about the attack and the attacker than ever before by matching up patterns, anomalies and other characteristics of the bad guys. Energy, DoD, Commerce and DHS are all analyzing cyber attack data to develop this more complete picture.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , McAfee , Alma Cole , Gil Vega , Energy , Commerce , Simon Szykman , DoD , Teri Takai , information sharing , Public-private partnership , Threat intelligence , Jason Miller
The terror attack in Boston
Heritage Foundation security expert James Carafano will discuss the terrorist bombings in Boston, and what the U.S. government can do to prevent future attacks.
April 19, 2013
Tags: workforce , terrorist attack , Boston bombings , James Carafano , Heritage Foundation , national security , Veteran Nation , Derrick Dortch , Fed Access , terrorism
