Washington Technology

Booz Allen acquires PAR Government Systems for $95M

Booz Allen Hamilton has acquired the PAR Government Systems Corp. business for approximately $95 million in a move by the former to further build out its digital battlespace business in the defense ...
Government Technology

The Case for a Return to On-Premise Government IT Systems

For more than a decade, government agencies have been urged to move their data and infrastructure to the cloud, sold on promises of scalability, agility and simplified operations. And while the cloud ...
PBS

Trump takes steps to shutter USAID and gives Musk unprecedented access to federal systems

Editor's note: If you’re a current or former career civil service employee in the federal government, we’d like to hear from you. Specifically, we’re looking to speak with government tech workers and ...
Opinion
NextgovOpinion

Making agentic government work: 7 principles for safer, smarter AI adoption

Principle: Trust is built on traceability. Government must be able to explain every digital action. Agentic systems should provide clear, auditable logs, not summaries or approximations. Opaque ...
GovCon Wire

NCR Government Systems to Maintain DeCA Network Under $335M DISA Contract

NCR Government Systems has secured a potential $335 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide ...
GovCon Wire

Booz Allen Buys PAR Government Systems to Expand Defense Portfolio

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has acquired PAR Technology’s government systems business arm in a move to expand the former’s portfolio of defense offerings. PAR Government Systems Corp. will operate ...
Computer Weekly

Government struggles to upgrade legacy IT systems, says PAC chair

Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chair Meg Hillier has issued a report calling for government to upgrade its legacy IT, address the lack of specialist skills and stop making the same mistakes. The PAC ...
Wired

Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To

Affiliates from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have significant access to 19 sensitive systems at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a ...
The New York Times

DOGE Accesses Federal Payroll System Over Objections of Career Staff

Elon Musk’s team gains visibility into sensitive information about hundreds of thousands of government workers despite security concerns raised by IT officials. By Coral Davenport Members of Elon Musk ...
Bleeping Computer

European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware

An APT hacking group known as GoldenJackal has successfully breached air-gapped government systems in Europe using two custom toolsets to steal sensitive data, like emails, encryption keys, images, ...
The Conversation

Albanese government bans DeepSeek from official devices on security grounds

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