ATO to cATO Cybersecurity Transition in The Federal Government
Federal agencies have long followed the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations to help agencies select the appropriate safeguards related to cybersecurity, privacy and supply chain risk management.. A key component of how agency IT officials assess risk and deploy new information systems is …
Federal Technology News & Trends | FedTech Magazine
The Smithsonian's Digitization Program Office creates 3D scans of historical and scientific artifacts so that scientists, citizens and anyone who can't make it to the D.C.-based museums can get a closer look at the museum complex's wealth of relics.
How DOD Can Look Beyond SIPRNet and NIPRNet - Technology …
The Department of Defense should look beyond existing communication protocols — the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network and Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network — toward commercial solutions that support secure information sharing, say comms experts.. To that end, the National Security Agency’s Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) program offers …
Software Factories for the Military Scale DevSecOps
What Is the Army’s Coding Resources and Transformation Ecosystem? The Army’s software factory, Code Resource and Transformation Environment (CReATE), is designed to help its software teams get secure, resilient and scalable applications to end users fast. It includes a suite of DevSecOps tools, services and production pipelines to enable cloud-native software …
Q&A: Microsoft Copilot Should Fly to Agencies This Summer
FEDTECH: What are the challenges in the federal workforce that AI can help fix? PAYNE: The federal government in general is drowning in data. How do you use that data to deliver better citizen services, improve science and maintain information advantage?. Then there’s the cybersecurity challenge: Agencies need a way to monitor network traffic and identify …
The Future of Data Encryption: What You Need to Know Now
The federal government has always needed to prevent classified information from being disclosed. But as cyberattacks become more sophisticated and prevalent, the stakes are only getting higher.. One way that organizations can protect data is through encryption, which applies algorithms to scramble data so that it’s readable only by someone who holds the key to decrypt it.
What Is FedRAMP Compliance and How Can Federal IT Achieve It?
The cloud is critical for federal agencies, but is it secure? For enterprises, leveraging less-than-secure solutions is potentially problematic; for government agencies, deploying insecure cloud services could be devastating.
What Is AI Infrastructure? - FedTech Magazine
The federal CAIO Council is prioritizing artificial intelligence-capable infrastructure, with an emphasis on computing power and resilience, as agencies increasingly look to leverage the technology.. Agencies will likely need some major technology enhancements to operationalize their AI efforts, and given the government’s intense interest in this area, it’s worth taking a …
How to Respond to a Cyber Breach | FedTech Magazine
In March, the Justice Department announced the indictments of seven hackers with ties to the government of the People’s Republic of China on charges that included conspiracy to commit computer intrusions. Those intrusions happened on the networks of private citizens as well as those of various federal agencies. The announcement serves as a stark reminder that …
How the Federal Government Is Using Artificial Intelligence So Far
Early Department of DOD AI Use Cases. The Department of Defense is maturing AI models for predictive maintenance through reinforcement learning to catch equipment failures before they occur and be proactive with maintenance. Eventually, humans no longer will need to review sensor data in aircraft, for example; AI will be able to recommend when to take a plane out of …