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Quick Hits The American Rescue Act as passed by the Senate includes $25 million for the Department of Agriculture to improve the technology behind the delivery of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, modernize benefits transfer and to push for more mobile access. Other tech items in the rescue package include $200 million for the U.S. Digital Service and $150 million for the Federal Citizen Services Fund. Posted by FCW Staff on Mar 10, 2021 at 2:34 AM ....
Top officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday told House lawmakers no federal agencies are known to be compromised by vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Exchange, but warned it is an evolving campaign with new information coming in by the hour. The vast majority of Microsoft Exchange servers have been mitigated across the federal civilian executive branch. We are working with individual agencies to assess their results of their forensic analysis, Eric Goldstein, the executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA told a House Appropriations subcommittee. At this point in time, there are no federal civilian agencies that are confirmed to be compromised by this campaign. ....
Federal agencies still reeling from the effects of a massive hack involving SolarWinds may face a new challenge of evicting any adversaries that breached their networks through recently discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft s Exchange software. Patching and mitigation is not remediation if the servers have already been compromised, the National Security Council said in a tweet on Friday. It is essential that any organization with a vulnerable server take immediate measures to determine if they were already targeted. President Joe Biden s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan also took to Twitter to urge U.S. think tanks and defense industrial base contractors to patch ASAP. ....
The Technology Modernization is poised to receive one heck of a present for its three-year anniversary – a $1 billion funding injection from Congress that would dramatically its capitalization. The TMF was founded by the Modernizing Government Technology Act and launched with $100 million. The fund has received three $25 million appropriations but overall has remained small – especially considering lawmakers initially sought to fund it with $3 billion. The House of Representatives included $9 billion for TMF in its initial version of the bill, but that provision was scrubbed after objections from many in the Senate. However, TMF backers in the Senate managed to include $1 billion their version of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act. The bill also contains other tech funding, including $200 million for the U.S. Digital Service and $650 million for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for r ....
Quick Hits The congressionally chartered National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence submitted its final report on March 1. In the introduction, chairman Eric Schmidt and vice chairman Robert Work caution about the rise of lethal AI among U.S. adversaries and argues that we will not be able to defend against AI-enabled threats without ubiquitous AI capabilities and new warfighting paradigms. The General Services Administrationannounced a share of a Bitcoin will be part of an upcoming auction. The sale marks the first time GSA counted a cryptocurrency product among its auction items. Posted by FCW Staff on Mar 09, 2021 at 2:19 AM ....