Some government officials are looking at college athletes as a new prospective pool of candidates to serve as future leaders and employees within the intelligence community (IC), according to one official.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced it has awarded two grants totaling more than $25.7 million to two Tribal nations – the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota and the Pueblo of Acoma in New Mexico – as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP).
A bipartisan bill from Reps. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Richard Hudson, R-N.C., is aiming to accelerate Federal efforts to modernize the country’s rapidly aging 9-1-1 systems.
The Virginia Department of Education needs help distributing up to $30 million in Elementary and Secondary School Relief (ESSER) Funds for K-12 Learning Recovery Grants and is turning to ClassWallet – a digital wallet technology platform for governments – for its solution.
In a bid to close the digital divide, a group of Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) students has secured a for mobile hotspots for students who otherwise lack internet access.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has published a new guide that outlines how to best spend $45 billion of Federal broadband funding being directed to underserved communities.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and the National Governors Association (NGA) have joined together in a push to help states combat the cybersecurity workforce shortage.
Through a new virtual reality pilot program, Colorado is looking to modernize how it trains state employees.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced more than $1.7 million in funding for the Emergency Connectivity Program (ECP), which helps schools and libraries provide digital services for unserved or underserved students nationwide.
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program – better known as FedRAMP – is a Federal government-wide program that standardizes security assessment authorization and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. StateRAMP – established a decade or so later – shares a similar vision to enable state and local governments (SLG) to find solutions to cybersecurity hurdles and standardize the procurement approach to secure cloud services.
