https://fedtechmagazine.com/ en https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-idaho-national-laboratory-turned-cyberattack-zero-trust-roadmap At the 2026 Zscaler Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., Idaho National Laboratory’s cybersecurity chief shared a candid account of the threats federal agencies face today — and the lessons his organization learned after confronting a serious intrusion. Robert Roser, CISO and director of cybersecurity at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), said the modern threat landscape is being shaped by artificial intelligence, increasingly sophisticated ransomware groups and expanding supply chain risk. At the same time, agencies are rapidly shifting workloads to the cloud, which is creating new… Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:38:36 -0400 Jessica Balen https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-idaho-national-laboratory-turned-cyberattack-zero-trust-roadmap https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/why-ai-driven-observability-rising-top-it-priorities While much of the executive conversation around artificial intelligence focuses on transformation within business units, more organizations are looking inward. For IT teams, that means turning to AI not for strategic reinvention, but to solve long‑standing operational challenges that impact uptime, user experience and cost efficiency. AI‑enabled observability and AI for operations (AIOps) is emerging as one of the most practical, high‑value starting points for enterprise AI adoption. Across networking, infrastructure and security operations, IT leaders are looking to AI to help… Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:15:41 -0400 Ashley Hackett https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/why-ai-driven-observability-rising-top-it-priorities https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-federal-agencies-can-simplify-it-purchasing-and-planning Federal IT teams face a procurement environment that grows more demanding each budget cycle. Agencies must comply with Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement requirements, track obligations against continuing resolutions and satisfy audit and accountability standards — all while managing aging infrastructure with reduced staff. Yet many organizations still rely on fragmented tools or manual processes to track purchases and assets. Spreadsheets, disconnected systems and limited visibility slow decision-making and introduce risk at every stage of… Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:22:55 -0400 Dina Sulkin https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-federal-agencies-can-simplify-it-purchasing-and-planning https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/review-cisco-webex-desk-pro-will-make-feds-look-forward-meetings Federal offices of all sizes rely on web-based conferencing to collaborate. But without the right equipment, audio and video clarity issues can weigh down meeting quality. By integrating and upgrading their videoconferencing setup, teams can improve their meeting engagement. Click the banner below to explore the solutions you need to give everyone a seat at the table. Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:04:50 -0400 Carlos Soto https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/review-cisco-webex-desk-pro-will-make-feds-look-forward-meetings https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-one-company-went-tech-startup-fedramp-20x When the FedRAMP Program Management Office launched its 20x pilot last year, Persona, an identity verification platform, was already deep into the traditional Rev5 authorization process. Rather than picking one track, the company decided to run both in parallel — an unusual and demanding choice that few cloud service providers have attempted. "It was intense, to say the least," says Stephen Eng, Persona’s federal compliance lead and security compliance engineer. Eng previously worked in government security as a cloud security engineer at NASA, a security compliance officer at the FDA and as a… Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:03:43 -0400 Ashley Hackett https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-one-company-went-tech-startup-fedramp-20x https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/qa-salesforce-svp-national-security-shares-new-partnership-air-force The Air Force just made one of its largest enterprise software bets: a departmentwide license agreement with Salesforce built around Missionforce National Security. Bill Pessin, senior vice president of national security at Salesforce, breaks down what it means for the Department of the Air Force’s operations, where autonomous AI agents fit in and why this approach could become a blueprint for defense modernization across the Department of Defense. FEDTECH: Salesforce has described this new partnership with DAF as laying “the digital foundation for an agentic enterprise.” Can you walk us… Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:40:50 -0400 Ashley Hackett https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/qa-salesforce-svp-national-security-shares-new-partnership-air-force https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/cisco-government-can-help-coordinate-response-ai-driven-vulnerability-surge The rise of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models capable of identifying software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed may require a new level of coordination between government agencies, technology vendors and critical infrastructure operators, says Eric Wenger, senior director of cyber and emerging technology policy in Cisco's Global Government Affairs organization. "We’re accelerating the ability to look at stuff that would potentially be discovered over the next weeks, months, years, and then pulling that forward," Wenger said in an interview with FedTech at Cisco Live 2026.… Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:55:19 -0400 Mickey McCarter https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/cisco-government-can-help-coordinate-response-ai-driven-vulnerability-surge https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/machine-identity-management-nonhuman-side-federal-zero-trust-perfcon Federal zero-trust efforts have largely focused on securing human users through identity, authentication and access controls. But inside agency environments, a growing amount of network activity now comes from nonhuman identities (NHIs) such as service accounts, application programming interfaces and automated workloads that often operate with broad privileges and limited oversight. Service accounts, APIs, applications, containers and automated workloads increasingly operate across federal networks with elevated privileges and persistent access to sensitive systems and data. Unlike human… Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:09:21 -0400 Nathan Eddy https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/machine-identity-management-nonhuman-side-federal-zero-trust-perfcon https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-compute-and-storage-infrastructure-support-federal-ai-adoption In government, there’s a lot more to delivering on artificial intelligence initiatives than simply plugging in a graphics processing unit and going to work. “How are you training those models? How are you getting those models distributed out? How are you maintaining those models?” asks Ken Rollins, chief AI technology strategist at Dell Federal. A misstep here can derail an AI pilot — and often does. In federal agencies, there’s an urgent need to scale up AI efforts, and that requires a new strategic approach, one that ensures alignment of data and infrastructure. Face Challenges to Scaling… Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:19:54 -0400 Adam Stone https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-compute-and-storage-infrastructure-support-federal-ai-adoption https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-nih-translating-70-years-health-data-speak-same-language The National Institutes of Health sits on one of the largest collections of biomedical research data in the world. Decades of federally funded studies on health issues such as heart disease, lung conditions, sleep disorders and genomics have generated petabytes of information. But for most of that history, the data was collected by different institutes and under varying standards. Historically, those disparate formats haven’t been easy to integrate. That dissonance is a problem when the goal is to train AI models that can accelerate medical research. Three NIH offices — the National Heart,… Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:23:45 -0400 Ashley Hackett https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2026/06/how-nih-translating-70-years-health-data-speak-same-language