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Contents
CYBERSECURITY
TRENDING
3 MANAGEMENT
New GAO tech office starts to take shape
FCW CALENDAR
Where you need to be next
8 POLICY
DOJ web traffic surges with Mueller report, and GAO says agencies could push harder on data center closings
25 DEFENSE
The JEDI cloud deal is down to AWS and Microsoft, DOD mulls incentives for vendors to report vulnerabilities,
and DISA pushes ahead with the milCloud
2.0 migration
28 PEOPLE
An FCW Insider news roundup
DEPARTMENTS
29 COMMENTARY
Is JEDI destined to be just another contract? BY NICK WAKEMAN Innovation and risk: Not an inseparable pair BY ALAN CHVOTKIN
43 FCW Q&A
Can battlefield drones spot threats to troops? BY LAUREN C. WILLIAMS
46 FCW IDEAS
Making the case for
a federal department of IT BY MIN-SEOK PANG
Unlocking the black
box of AI reasoning
BY PATRICK MARSHALL
48 LECTERN
‘Show, don’t tell’ takes hold in federal contracting BY STEVE KELMAN
51 FCW INDEX
31 Election security 2020:
The known unknowns
Experts differ on whether election officials will face the same threats as 2016 or whether they should expect the unexpected in 2020
BY DEREK B. JOHNSON
The U.S. CISO and other IT leaders are looking for ways to strengthen federal procurement rules and secure an increasingly complex supply chain
BY DEREK B. JOHNSON
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
PROCUREMENT
36 Are new supply chain regulations the answer?
FIRSTNET
40 FirstNet: Not just for first responders The Department of the Navy’s adoption of the public safety communications platform demonstrates FirstNet’s broad appeal
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