Carter appears to have gotten the hint from Congress that his Silicon Valley pet project is on the hot seat. Last week in his fourth visit to the area since taking over as secretary, Carter announced a major overhaul of DIUx leadership and a second outpost in Boston. Cyber Command to its own combatant command, restrict a small business set-aside threshold increase that would make it easier for emerging tech companies to work with DOD, and cut overseas contingency operations funding for U.
Contact the reporter on this story via email at Billy. Mitchell FedScoop. Subscribe to the Daily Scoop to get all the federal IT news you need in your inbox every morning at fdscp. Instead of hundreds of agency-specific human capital contracts negotiated over and over again around government, the HCaTS contracts give all agencies a single place to find everything they need.
Chief Acquisition Officer Anne Rung said in a release. This initial set of HCaTS contracts will have an ordering period of and-a-half years β a five-year base period, a five-year option and six-month option to extend. The continuing surge of cybersecurity threats, and the growing array of alert systems designed to flag them, is making it harder for federal agencies to respond effectively to the daily overload of alerts, according to new survey findings released by FedScoop.
The introduction of analytics systems and other technology products is helping IT departments identify and respond to anomalies in network activities and user behavior more quickly than before.
However, the sheer volume of alerts, coming from a variety of security intelligence systems, has introduced something of a new challenge for network security managers in how to respond most efficiently to alerts coming from up and down the computing stack. The study, for instance, found that one out of five government IT professionals responding to the survey reported that their IT teams have more than 20 distinct products or systems to detect, monitor and respond to cyberthreats; and 70 percent of respondents reported having five or more alert systems.
