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John Curran

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John Curran is MeriTalk's Managing Editor covering the intersection of government and technology.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) said today it has received the first draft versions from industry organizations of the submissions they plan to make by later this month in response to the program’s FedRAMP 20x Phase One pilot. […]

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Michael Kratsios issued a call today for the government and the U.S. scientific establishment to return to what he called “Gold Standard Science,” and in that context argued that the employment of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles in scientific fields would hinder that effort. […]

Tech Tonic May 2025

The 2025 class of Cyber Defenders is stepping out to take a bow at Tech Tonic on May 15 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Morton’s The Steakhouse in Washington, D.C., and you are invited to join in the celebration. […]

The latest edition of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) annual review of Federal spending overlap, duplication, and fragmentation is taking aim at IT project reviews by the largest 24 government agencies and estimating that implementing statutory requirements for those types of reviews could save the government more than $100 million. […]

OPM Office of Personnel Management

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., is pushing to give the Commerce Department an extra $500 million for artificial intelligence (AI) tech capabilities – and to block state AI regulations – through the budget reconciliation process that is kicking off in Congress this week. […]

Tyto Athene, a Reston, Va.-based Federal systems integrator, said today it completed the acquisition of stackArmor, Inc., which provides compliance acceleration solutions across a wide range of Federal government policy requirements. […]

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