2016 in review: Congress runs out the clock on federal IT modernization funds

Posted on by Paige Openshaw

But the bill’s author says Congress is ready to tackle the issue again in the new year.   Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd authored legislation that would have created individual IT working capital funds for each of the 24 CFO Act agencies and a centralized IT modernization fund housed in the Treasury Department that executive […]

NIST Asks Public to Help Future-Proof Electronic Information

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December 20, 2016 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is officially asking the public for help heading off a looming threat to information security: quantum computers, which could potentially break the encryption codes used to protect privacy in digital systems. NIST is requesting methods and strategies from the world’s cryptographers, with the deadline […]

People, not dollars, are the barriers to cloud migration, experts say

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FedScoop talked to more than five companies about what they think are the major roadblocks on the path to government cloud migration. Here’s what they said.   (Getty Images)   Las Vegas — From the constant talk in Washington of developing a federal fund to upgrade technology, one might think that cost is the major […]