The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The long awaited final rule is out, on a Defense Department cybersecurity program. Not yet in effect, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program rule is now at the White House for review. So you might as well get used to the idea. Joining the Federal Drive with an update, attorney Eric Crucius of Holland and Knight.

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The State Department recently chose 15 college students for this year's round of Foreign Affairs Information Technology fellowships. Winners get scholarships and eventually a State Department posting. Joining me is one of the new cohort, Astrid Tagne from the University of Maryland. But first, for some background on the fellowship program, Orienta Huger, a State Department IT recruiter.

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The long-running cloud security program known as FedRAMP is going through some big changes. The General Services Administration wants to streamline authorizations by using automation. It also has a new process for prioritizing artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. For more, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday spoke with the senior technical lead and strategist for FedRAMP at GSA, Ryan Palmer. 

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Congress is out of D.C. this week for the 4th of July holiday. But it has a lot of spinning plates. Including three big appropriations bills . Homeland Security Secretary Alleyandro Mayorkas can remain confident he'll get a paycheck. An update now from WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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The Supreme Court last week overturned a 40 year precedent. In a case brought by New England fisherman, the court reversed what's been know as Chevron deference. In the 1984 case, the courts said judges should generally defer to federal agencies when rules they make are reasonable, and the enabling law was ambiguous. Last week's decision reverses that thinking. For what this may mean for agency rulemaking operations, we turn to the chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States, Andy Fois.

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Service members are often part of two-income families. But spouses face the continual difficulty of establishing themselves when the service member gets relocated. Now the Army has schootched up its reimbursement policy for those spouses to, in the Army's words, promote career continuity and military readiness. Joining me earlier with details, Army program analyst Steve Yearwood.

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The Defense Department is out with a new strategy that will serve as what officials call the north star for the department’s information technology goals until fiscal 2029. The strategy will pretty much drive everything chief information officers and their tech staffs will do. Federal News Network’s Anastasia Obis has details.

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Lt. Gen. Todd Isaacson, the CIO for the Joint Chiefs of Staff/J-6, said a review team is completing recommendations for leadership around using GenAI.

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