Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., have introduced a bill that would authorize the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to summon internet service providers for information, Fifth Domain reported Thursday.

The bill would grant CISA subpoena authority to gather information of an ISP’s customers suspected to be using vulnerable infrastructure.

CISA would gather only critical infrastructure-related information under this authority, in support of cybersecurity. The subpoenas would require an official electronic signature from CISA to avoid fraudulent access.

The legislation also aims to provide legal grounds through which CISA can identify and notify parties owning vulnerable critical infrastructure.

“This legislation gives CISA the authority necessary to reach out and warn owners of critical infrastructure that they are open and vulnerable to cyberattacks before they become a victim,” Johnson said in a statement posted by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental affairs.

The U.S. Army has generated $1.2 billion in savings through the use of a new data-driven, category-based procurement process, said an executive within the service branch.

Rebecca Weirick, executive director of services acquisition at the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement, said in a statement posted Tuesday that the “category management” approach supports the service’s priority funding. She talked about the concept’s use in the Department of Defense and borrowed traits from industry during a panel at a forum hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army.

The service branch classifies goods in 19 categories, with 10 of which covering common products and services such as security and professional support. The remaining nine include weapons, research work, electronics and other more complex goods.

Weirick said category management allows procurement personnel to better determine the most cost-effective sources for certain goods. James Lewis, another procurement official within Weirick’s same office, chaired the panel and explained how the approach works.

The Army just started to adopt category management last year, following the U.S. Air Force that has already been using the approach for two years. Army Logistics University plans to launch a new course that would educate non-procurement personnel on category management.

The service branch now plans to use generated savings for modernization efforts.

The General Services Administration, the Department of Education and the U.S. Agency for International Development received the highest grades on the latest version of the biannual modernization scorecard for federal agencies, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. 

The ninth iteration of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act Scorecard awarded A+ grades for overall IT modernization efforts to both GSA and DOE and an A score to USAID, marking the first time that more than one agency received the highest rating. 

“This is the best scorecard ever. Nine agencies moved forward. There are three ‘As,’ we have not seen that in a long time,” said Suzette Kent, the federal chief information officer and a 2019 Wash100 recipient. 

The overall rating was based on agencies’ individual scores on their cybersecurity, agency CIO authority enhancements, risk management, software licensing, data center optimization, portfolio review and modernization of government technology.

The Department of Homeland Security made the biggest improvement in IT modernization effort, increasing from an overall D- grade to a B, mainly due to A scores in data center optimization and software licensing.