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FEMA officially ‘no longer part’ of move to DHS St. Elizabeths campus

riskacademy — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:59:44 +0000

The Department of Homeland Security’s plan to bring the leadership of component agencies under one roof and manage a sprawling network of office buildings in the Washington D.C. metro area has hit another snag.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is looking to stay in its leased office space for up to another 20 years, and expand its square footage by nearly 20%, effectively walking away from plans to relocate its headquarter to the DHS St. Elizabeths campus in Southeast D.C.

In a lease prospectus sent to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee earlier this summer, the General Services Administration says FEMA can accommodate its staff more easily and cheaply in leased space, instead of moving to the St. Elizabeths campus, where construction is slated for completion by 2026.

“FEMA is no longer part of the St. Elizabeths campus consolidation plan,” a GSA spokesperson told Federal News Network on Friday.

Federal News Network first reported last November that FEMA officials scuttled plans to move the agency’s headquarters to St. Elizabeths after Congress approved hundreds of millions of…

Axonius Officially Added to DHS CDM APL and Receives CAVP Validation, Accelerating Expansion of its Federal Program

riskacademy — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:24:44 +0000

NEW YORK (PRWEB)
July 16, 2020

Axonius, the cybersecurity asset management company, today announced it has been added to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program Approved Products List (APL), allowing for purchase through the General Services Administration (GSA). The company has also received Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) certification for its product’s use of the OpenSSL Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Object Module.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, federal, state, and local governments were already investing in IT modernization and digitization. Now, with the explosion of remote work, agencies face an increasing proliferation of devices and more assets hosted in the cloud. This is generating immediate urgency for federal CISOs to make quick and large strides to gain a comprehensive view of assets and activity within their infrastructure. By adopting a solution like Axonius, federal agencies immediately gain this…