Weekly Wrapup: JEDI, smart cities and leaking sinkholes
The Scoop News Group editors are back to talk JEDI, smart cities and leaking sinkholes.
The Scoop News Group editors are back to talk JEDI, smart cities and leaking sinkholes.
A look at the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, how hackers are loading malware into mobile ads and how many organizations are beginning to look at returning back to normal amid the coronavirus.
A weekly roundup of the top stories on Scoop News Group publications. This week: the latest on coronavirus response efforts, the JEDI contracts, digital transformation at the state and local levels, and more.
Editor-in-chief Billy Mitchell discusses the top stories on FedScoop this week with his counterparts CyberScoop’s Greg Otto and StateScoop’s Jake Williams.
The governor of Virginia urged Congress Wednesday to see past part politics to create a meaningful cybersecurity plan for the good of the nation.
With a new presidential administration in town, the chairman and vice chairman of the National Governors Association called for more collaboration between the federal government and states on cybersecurity.
Even though the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Address Database pilot extinguished its funding and concluded its official run earlier this year, the agency’s chief geographic information officer announced Wednesday the effort will continue through a “coalition of the willing.”
Anthony Foxx, the Obama Administration’s transportation secretary, said the potential around smart cities could be as revolutionary as the Interstate Highway System was in the mid-1950s.
The framework — modeled after one created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology on cybersecurity — would serve as a standardized approach to smart city efforts.
To provide computing power for the U.S. arsenal of advanced weaponry, satellites and information systems, the Pentagon has entered into a seven-year deal with Globalfoundries Inc, an Abu Dhabi-owned microchip manufacturer. The move serves to diversify the Defense Department’s microchip supply chain — an issue of particular concern for some defense officials — which has been dominated by […]