Posts from GovConDaily for 03/04/2016

March 4 Market Close: GovCon Index Up on Jobs Data, Engility & Navistar Extend Rallies

The GovCon Index posted a modest gain of 0.247 points to 73.958 Friday on a new Labor Department jobs report that investors believe does not indicate further interest rate hikes at the moment. Friday’s positive close puts the Index at a gain of 2…

Purdue Educator Ellen Kossek Named OPM Research Summit Work-Life Committee Chair

Ellen Kossek, a Krannert School of Management professor at Purdue University, will chair the work-life committee for an Office of Personnel Management research summit in March, the university said Wednesday…

Mark Kneidinger: Congress Should Establish Legal Authority for Federal CISO Post

Mark Kneidinger, director of the Department of Homeland Security‘s federal network resilience division, has said he believes a federal chief information security officer will not be able to demonstrate leadership potential without legal authority, Fedscoop reported Thursday…

NIST Seeks Industry Ideas on Cloud Accessibility for Employees With Disabilities

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has opened the comment period for its draft publication on cloud computing accessibility as part of an effort to help employees with disabilities utilize the cloud…

IBM’s Dan Chenok: Cybersecurity A Key Mission Area for Government

IBM’s Dan Chenok has said the government should work to identify and respond to cyber threats in a way that does not prevent government agencies, commercial firms and citizens from using technology platforms that serve them…

Lockheed to Support Military Veteran Genomics Project; Horace Blackman Comments

Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs in a bid to expand the company’s data security, integration and interoperability roles for the Million Veteran Program…

Jacob Parcell: New GSA Registry Contains 7K+ Verified Govt Digital Accounts

Federal digital managers have verified more than 7,300 government accounts on third-party Web, social media and mobile platforms through the General Services Administration‘s U.S. Digital Registry, GSA official Jacob Purcell wrote in a blog article published Monday…

GCN: Unisys Stealth Security Software Near NSA Classified Programs Approval

The National Security Agency is in the contracting and evaluation phase of its evaluation of Unisys‘ Stealth security software platform that is now available for use in classified programs, GCN reported Thursday…