Federal Technology News & Trends | FedTech Magazine
The Smithsonian's Digitization Program Office creates 3D scans of historical and scientific artifacts so that scientists, citizens and anyone who can't make it to the D.C.-based museums can get a closer look at the museum complex's wealth of relics.
Review: Dell’s OptiPlex 7050 Was Designed with Feds in Mind
Dell’s desktop PCs have been a staple of the federal workspace for 20 years.In the 1990s, the company decided to release major updates to its OptiPlex line on an occasional basis, allowing agencies to standardize and secure a reliable system that could then last for years.As such, new OptiPlex models are somewhat rare.
ATO to cATO Cybersecurity Transition in The Federal Government
Federal agencies have long followed the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations to help agencies select the appropriate safeguards related to cybersecurity, privacy and supply chain risk management.. A key component of how agency IT officials assess risk and deploy new information systems is an authorization to ...
What Is FedRAMP Compliance and How Can Federal IT Achieve It?
The cloud is critical for federal agencies, but is it secure? For enterprises, leveraging less-than-secure solutions is potentially problematic; for government agencies, deploying insecure cloud services could be devastating.
DEC’s VAX Superminicomputer Became a Mainstay in Federal …
In the 1970s — the era of Watergate and then of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter — the Digital Equipment Corp.’s VAX system helped fill the technology gap after IBM mainframes dominated federal computing but before smaller personal computers and the internet took off and became a key element of federal computing architecture, especially for research purposes.
Computing Power of Apollo 11 & The Tech Behind It
Fifty years ago this week, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle landed on the surface of the moon at the culmination of the Apollo 11 mission, and human beings first set foot on the planet’s only natural satellite.. The technological feat that enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to bounce around the Sea of Tranquility was the Apollo Guidance Computer, or …
What Is a Cybersecurity Audit and Why Is It Important?
The federal government is still unraveling its vulnerabilities in the wake of the SolarWinds cyberattack, and the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency does not know how many federal civilian agencies are segmenting and segregating internal networks from unwanted outside traffic.. Brandon Wales, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...
How IBM 7094 Gave NASA Computing Superiority in the 1960s
The early mainframe model, powerful in its day, helped NASA control spacecraft for the Gemini and Apollo programs. Learn the role the IBM 7094 played in NASA's breakthrough.
How Platform One (P1) from the Air Force Supports DevSecOps
What Is Platform Engineering? Platform engineering refers to “the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era,” according to platformengineering.org, a professional community of practice.. Overall, platform engineering pulls together common components and processes so that ...
Security - FedTech Magazine
Implementing tools such as multifactor authentication and privileged access management allows IT teams to provision and deprovision users with ease while maintaining security compliance.