Rep. Will Hurd told FCW that the notion that “if you don’t spend it, you lose it [is] the wrong kind of incentive to have in purchasing IT goods and services.”
Source: Hurd warns against rigid IT budgeting | Sean Lyngaas | FCW
The White House sent its legislative proposal to Capitol Hill and Rep. Steny Hoyer plans on introducing legislation based on that proposal this week.
Executives accuse Shay Assad of pursuing a “personal vendetta.”
Source: Meet the most hated man in the Pentagon | Ellen Mitchell | Politico
The Obama administration proposes to spend $3.1 billion next year to seed a fund designed to improve cybersecurity by modernizing federal IT.
Source: White House Proposes $3 Billion Fund to Modernize Federal IT | Eric Chabrow | Gov Info Security
The upgrade eliminates the need for manual tracking of individual pricing discounts for federal, state, and local government contracts.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) will introduce legislation supporting an Obama administration plan to appropriate $3.1 billion for a capital fund to modernize outdated federal IT systems.
SourceWhite House offers details on $3.1B IT modernization plan | Sean Lyngaas | FCW
The DoD is trying to be more transparent in the way it prices contracts, defining what “lowest price technically acceptable” actually means.
Source: DoD is better defining what lowest price means in contracts | Scott Maucione | FederalNewsRadio.com
Your worst practices might be undermining your best ones.
One in five employees is willing to leak confidential information, and 30% of them say that they will sell their work-related passwords for less than $1,000, according to Sailpoint 2016 Market Pulse Survey findings. The release of the Panama Papers is adding to the debate.
Source: Insider Security Threats: Disloyal Employees | Pablo Valerio | Information Week