A report by the Cyber Safety Review Board outlines findings on the activities associated with an extortion-focused threat actor group called Lapsus$ and offers 10 recommendations for government and industry stakeholders to protect their infrastructure from cyberthreats posed by Lapsus$ and related groups. The CSRB report found that Lapsus$ performed attacks against dozens of government […] More

Parsons and the U.S. Army have broken ground on a new facility to treat hazardous energetic waste streams at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia. The groundbreaking marks the construction of the incinerator that will replace the open burning of waste at RFAAP to support the Army’s efforts to improve the facility’s environmental impact, […] More

L3Harris Technologies has received recognition from the Department of Defense for its commitment to maintaining industrial security excellence and strengthening U.S. counterintelligence capabilities. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency selected L3Harris’ Space & Airborne Systems facility as one of 19 recipients of the James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award, the company said Thursday. […] More

Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ government business, warned that financial cybercrimes exploiting artificial intelligence are not imminent but already taking place, CNBC News reported Wednesday. He noted that a new task force created by the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General to study AI is lagging behind criminal acts targeting government […] More

DRT Strategies has secured a contract from the Department of Agriculture to modernize the agency’s core financial system using the Oracle Application Express platform. The company said Wednesday the low-code application platform will be integrated into the USDA system to manage property and asset data for the government enterprise under the Oracle APEX Conversion contract.  Contract […] More

Carahsoft Technology will begin offering Federated Wireless’ 5G-enabled private wireless systems to public sector customers through its contract vehicles and reseller partners. Government agency customers can access private wireless products from Federated Wireless through Carahsoft’s National Association of State Procurement Officials ValuePoint contract and The Quilt master service agreement, the companies said in a joint […] More

Laura Stanton, a General Services Administration official, said that since 2021, federal agencies have obligated $1 billion on 600 task orders awarded through the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide contract to 309 small businesses. Of those small businesses, 177 marked their first GSA orders through the 8(a) STARS III GWAC, Stanton, […] More

Tiffany Goddard, director of customer experience and engagement solutions at Carahsoft Technology, said government agencies looking to improve CX should start with enhancing employee experience. “Employees can be the most underutilized asset for organizations, so it is important for agencies to understand what employees need for peak performance,” Goddard wrote in a blog post published […] More

Phil Fuster, chief revenue officer at Hitachi Vantara Federal, said federal agencies looking to better defend systems from cybercrimes should foster collaboration with industry and other agencies through sharing of threat intelligence and best practices and establish secure standardized platforms for sharing information. In a Fed Gov Today podcast aired Thursday, Fuster highlighted the need […] More

Bill Rowan, vice president of public sector at Splunk, said that organizations implementing zero trust strategies will be more effective if they gradually adopt ZT security measures instead of executing them in all departments at the same time. In a Fed Gov Today interview aired Sunday, Rowan discussed the challenges that lead to varying impacts […] More

Barry Duplantis, vice president and general manager of the North American public sector at Mattermost, said government agencies seeking to facilitate response to cyber incidents and maintain digital sovereignty should implement a self-hosted technical collaboration platform. Duplantis wrote in a commentary published Monday on Federal News Network that such a collaboration platform could provide organizations […] More

Tiffany Goddard, director of customer experience and engagement solutions at Carahsoft Technology, said government agencies seeking to improve CX should monitor customers’ feedback on social media and come up with actionable plans by generating insights from collected data. “Previously thought to be uncorrelated to constructive feedback, agencies are finding that customers use social media as […] More