Tag: Federal

October 16, 2018

More than six out of 10 federal domains are fully compliant with website and email security requirements laid out in a Department of Homeland Security directive released last year, while about three out of four are at least publishing reports […]

October 1, 2018

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed into law legislation that seeks to restore net neutrality rules for the state’s internet users. The law, which was introduced in January shortly after the Federal Communications Commission overturned its own Obama-era net […]

September 14, 2018

The European Parliament has approved a controversial set of new rules on copyright which state that media giants should pay more for the content they use. The legislation also makes companies like Google and Facebook responsible for the content uploaded […]

June 13, 2018

The government is sitting on a goldmine of radio spectrum that could be used to accelerate 5G deployment, but crafting a coordinated policy to get there is complicated. One obvious way is to provide incentives for federal agencies to relinquish […]

June 1, 2018

The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal union, is suing President Donald Trump and the Office of Personnel Management over a recent executive order aimed at restricting union activity. The lawsuit was filed May 30 in the U.S. […]

May 8, 2018

The Office of Personnel Management is moving ahead with a series of changes to employee benefits that it estimates will save more than $143 billion over 10 years. In a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), OPM Director Jeff […]

April 27, 2018

The Department of Homeland Security will issue a national cybersecurity strategy in mid-May, the DHS chief told a key House committee oversight hearing. “It will be shortly, within the next two weeks,” DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told the ranking member […]

April 26, 2018

For federal employees who move for work, the new tax law could leave them on the hook for taxes on their moving expenses. Employer-covered moving expenses were tax deductible under the former tax code, but the new law eliminated this […]

April 26, 2018

A group representing state chief information officers says progress was made in private talks with federal officials Wednesday on solving state government’s woes in complying with a varied and sometimes conflicting mass of regulations. The talks were held between approximately […]

April 17, 2018

All nine members of U.S. Congress representing Maryland requested this month that Republican Gov. Larry Hogan bolster the state’s election security and infrastructure before the 2018 midterms. Gov. Hogan agreed. In a letter to the governor, lawmakers wrote, “With the […]