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USA – VA’s Cybersecurity Still Missing Critical Zero-Trust Element, Watchdog Says (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

The Veterans Affairs Department has come a long way implementing Government Accountability Office recommendations for protecting its information systems but still doesn’t have appropriate...

USA – Air Force Wants to Build DevSecOps Enclave for Secure Processing (Mila Jasper, Nextgov)

The Air Force wants to build a multi-level security network to enable secure processing for the Defense Department’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept,...

USA – Bill Would Ban Facial Recognition in Public Housing (Frank Konkel, Nextgov)

Legislation introduced in the House Wednesday would prohibit the usage of facial recognition and biometric technologies in public and assisted housing units funded under...

USA – IG: SBA’s Cybersecurity ‘Not Effective,’ In Part Due to COVID (Aaron Boyd, Nextgov)

The weight of administering a multibillion-dollar emergency aid program and other pandemic-related stressors in 2020 weakened the cybersecurity posture of the Small Business Administration,...

USA – A Catch-22 Is Keeping Telemedicine Off the Battlefield (Patrick Tucker, Nextgov)

Say telemedicine, and you might imagine two-way video or perhaps haptic sensors and augmented reality—features that need enormous bandwidth. A Catch-22 Is Keeping Telemedicine Off...

USA – IRS Offering $7.5M for New Ideas to ‘Digitize’ and ‘Digitalize’ Paper Documents (Aaron Boyd, Nextgov)

The IRS wants new ideas for digitizing and digitalizing paper files and is offering up to $7.5 million per proposal in the latest solution...

USA – Colonial Pipeline Didn’t Have Multifactor Authentication in Place—And Most Defense Contractors Don’t Either (Eric Noonan, Nextgov)

When Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount sat before lawmakers to explain the recent ransomware attack, he found them less sympathetic than they once were...

USA – Pentagon Cancels JEDI Cloud Contract (Mila Jasper, Frank Konkel, Defense One)

The Defense Department is canceling the embattled Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, officials announced Tuesday. Pentagon Cancels JEDI Cloud Contract - Defense One GLOWIMAGES VIA GETTY...

USA – How JEDI’s Ghost Will Bring Bitter Rivals Together (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Now that the Defense Department has canceled its signature $10 billion enterprise cloud computing contract, what’s next for the military’s cloud needs? How JEDI’s Ghost...

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