As cybersecurity awareness continues to increase throughout the federal space, the government’s personnel office has good news for future cyber workers. Nancy Kichak, chief human capital officer of the Office of Personnel Management, said her agency is looking into creating a separate federal career track for cybersecurity. Now, most cybersecurity employees fall under the IT [...]

The Defense Department is scaling back a tough, new conflict-of-interest rule for some contracts, including those for IT and professional services. According to a final rule, published in the Federal Register, only major weapons systems contracts and systems engineering and technical assistance will be subject to stricter standards. Those new regulations prevent contractors from accepting [...]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a plan to overhaul its IT systems to both bring it more squarely into the health IT future and to comply with mandates set out in last year’s healthcare reform law. The 73-page plan, aims to modernize the agency’s data systems, while at the same time eliminating [...]