TikTok

It’s out, a procurement rule banning contractors from using TikTok

The Federal Acquisition Regulation Council earlier this month issued something the procurement community had been expecting. An interim rule that bans…

Cybersecurity

TikTok banned again, this time for federal contractors

Federal Newscast

Cloud computing is the next line in the competition with China

Cloud Computing

(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. To enact President Joe Biden’s expansive domestic agenda this year, Democrats have mapped out a convoluted legislative maze. The party wants to push the new president's multitrillion-dollar plans for supercharging federal infrastructure, climate change and social programs through a Congress in which they have only paper-thin majorities. GOP opposition is certain to be solid. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Congress has a decidedly nuts-and-bolts week

Congress

Should feds even have TikTok on their personal devices?

People

No dance step or sidestep can help avoid the TikTok ban

Federal Newscast

Some 2023 advice for federal contractors, now that there’s money

Contracting

Congress moves to reauthorize CISA’s cyber defense program

Cybersecurity

Senate unanimously passes bill that would ban TikTok on government devices

Federal Newscast

After the Huawei and ZTE bans, what’s next for China trade policy

Cybersecurity

Inside the FCC decision to ban sales of Chinese-made telecom gear

Technology

A bipartisan Senate push to tamp down at least one threat from China

Two senators from opposite parties recently urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the phenomenon of TikTok.

Congress

Biden admin. wants more federal employees to qualify for student loan forgiveness

In today’s Federal Newscast, new proposal from the Department of Education is aiming to expand student loan relief programs for federal workers.

Federal Newscast

women in the military, online harassment, DoD

Nowhere safe to hide: What online harassment is doing to service members and the military

Defense

Social media and text messaging are now a way of life for people in the military — they use the services to keep in contact with friends, for recruiting, to do their jobs, to find like-minded people or just to show their mom what they did today. Those platforms are also wrought with sexual harassment, bullying, hazing and intimidation directed at troops and perpetrated by them.