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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has posted a request for information on the best implementation approaches to the U.S. Government National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technology. The inputs that NIST seeks from the public include partnership avenues with stakeholders, dismantling participation barriers in international standards development and enhancing U.S. government support […]

The U.S. ambassador-at-large for cyberspace and digital policy said the U.S. Department of State is developing a new strategy for international cooperation against cyber threats. Speaking at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit on Sept. 6, Nathaniel Fick said a draft version of the strategy will be circulated within the government in the fall. According to Fick, […]

Excella has secured several 12-month agreements worth over $13 million to continue supporting the Office of Personnel Management. Excella, in partnership with the National Technical Information Service, will help the agency mature its data visualization, infrastructure, skills, standards and stewardship programs by working with the Data Governance Board and the Human Capital Data Management and […]

The Telecommunications and Information Administration is eyeing upgrades to its radio frequency spectrum management infrastructure. One of NTIA’s main responsibilities is to oversee federal spectrum use and identify bandwidth for the private sector. In a request for information posted Tuesday on SAM .gov, the agency said it wants to enhance spectrum system security, improve spectrum […]

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Leidos a potential seven-year, $918 million contract to deliver program management, operations and maintenance, training and cloud integration services. Leidos is expected to enhance the Homeland Secure Data Network and Classified-Local Area Network under the Homeland Enterprise Information Technology Secure Services and Support follow-on. HSDN is a wide-area […]

The National Archives and Records Administration said it will address issues in its new electronic records management system and will make it available to more users by mid-September. U.S. Chief Records Officer Laurence Brewer said in a memorandum to federal records management offices that agencies have been using the Electronic Record Archive 2.0 system since […]

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced on Tuesday $20 million in total grants to 49 state and territory international trade agencies under the 2023 State Trade Expansion Program. State government entities and nonprofit organizations at the local level manage each of the awardees, which were chosen via a competitive application process. According to agency chief […]

Guy Cavallo, the Office of Personnel Management’s chief information officer, explained that his organization’s new information technology strategy is intended to reconcile its development pace and legacy technology debt. Released in May, OPM’s IT plan for fiscal years 2023 to 2026 is the first to be released since 2014. According to the plan, OPM’s legacy […]

The Los Alamos National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have installed the Crossroads supercomputer at the laboratory’s Strategic Computing Complex. Irene Qualters, associate director for simulation and computation at LANL, said Crossroads will deliver up to eight times better performance than the Trinity supercomputer, which has been at the lab since 2015. The National Nuclear […]

Douglas Robertson has assumed the position of chief technology officer at the Small Business Administration, where he is tasked with forming an organizational strategy, establishing security programs and utilizing new capabilities to improve programming and performance within operations. In a statement to Nextgov/FCW, the SBA explained that Robertson is part of the chief information office […]