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 an authorization to ...

FedTech explores technology issues and successes that federal IT leaders and managers face when they’re evaluating and implementing a solution.

The Department of Defense develops software factories to enable continuous integration and delivery of new applications amid its ongoing software modernization push.. An assembly line comparison is apt: DOD defines a software factory as having distinct pipelines — each with its own tools, workflows, scripts and environments — and sets of automated activities throughout the development ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s science-based mission includes receiving, generating and reviewing a wealth of data and products from the vast array of manufacturers and firms that the agency regulates. The need for a customer-friendly, secure-submission platform is paramount to the FDA efficiently performing this mission.In developing …

The Intelligence Community just signed and will soon release a data reference architecture intended to help its 18 elements connect siloed data across their distributed ecosystem, according to Chief Data Officer Lori Wade.

The early mainframe model, powerful in its day, helped NASA control spacecraft for the Gemini and Apollo programs. Learn the role the IBM 7094 played in NASA's breakthrough.

Next-Gen SIEM Enables Faster Cyber Incident Response. A cornerstone of next-gen SIEM is flexible storage that can incorporate data from multifaceted sources at the volume, velocity and level of veracity that the cyber ecosystem delivers, says Sam Kinch, director of technical account management at systems software company Tanium. "Scalability improves with tunable storage capacities and ...

The Indian Health Service announced plans to start rolling out pilots of its new electronic health record at three Oklahoma sites in 2025: Lawton Indian Hospital, Anadarko Indian Health Center and Carnegie Indian Health Center.. PATH EHR is a cloud-based EHR from Oracle Health that will replace IHS’ 40-year-old Resource and Patient Management System.

What Are Commercial Solutions for Classified? The CSfC program, which got off the ground in 2016, certifies commercial network solutions that agencies can use to create secure, encrypted networks.The program is designed to enable commercial products for use in layered solutions protecting classified National Security Systems (NSS) data.

Fifty years ago this week, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle landed on the surface of the moon at the culmination of the Apollo 11 mission, and human beings first set foot on the planet’s only natural satellite.. The technological feat that enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to bounce around the Sea of Tranquility was the Apollo Guidance Computer, or …