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The Government Accountability Office has found that more than half of the 24 agencies it surveyed did not always use the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program when approving cloud services for government use.

Matthew Cornelius, a former official at the Office of Management and Budget, has been appointed executive director at the Alliance for Digital Innovation industry group, Federal News Network reported Tuesday.

Doug Loverro, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said the space agency essentially requires the Space Launch System to pursue the manned lunar mission planned for 2024, Space News reported Wednesday. Loverro made this statement with Jim Bridenstine, NASA administrator, against criticisms on SLS' high sustainment costs compared to those of commercial launch vehicles.

The Census Bureau intends to launch a reskilling effort with the Office of Personnel Management and Federal CIO Council focused on training personnel for data science activities in January 2020, FCW reported Wednesday.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a draft binding operational directive that would require federal agencies to have a vulnerability disclosure policy.

The Office of Management and Budget plans to administer a pilot program to repolish the data science skills of federal employees, Federal News Network reported Monday. The future program would also aim to help federal officers understand the importance of data science to achieve an agency's goals.

The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency seeks third party feedback on an effort to assess infrastructure security. CISA uses a system to gather critical infrastructure data from organizations, but the cost of assessments has risen from $1.8M to $1.9M, DHS said Thursday in a Federal Register notice.

Amyx, Inc. has been awarded a One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) Pool 1 contract from the General Services Administration (GSA) in the unrestricted category, Amyx announced on Thursday.  

The Department of Commerce has announced the establishment of an advisory committee to review and offer recommendations on how to advance the use of government data for evidence building.

Ron Thompson, chief data officer at NASA, told Government Matters in a video interview posted Monday how the agency leverages data to support its missions. He discussed NASA’s data resources and how the agency executes the Office of Management and Budget’s National Data Strategy based on those resources.