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John Curran

Washington, D.C.

Managing Editor at MeriTalk

Managing Editor at MeriTalk, Boston sports fan, dog-guy. Tweets are my own views.

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  • Army Names Brandon Pugh Principal Cyber Advisor

    1 week ago | meritalk.com | John Curran

    The Department of the Army has named Brandon Pugh as principal cyber advisor, with the top-level duties of advising the secretary of the Army and the Army chief of staff on cyber matters and implementing the Pentagon’s cyber strategy in the Army.

  • Senators Want to Harness AI to Reduce Medicare Fraud

    1 week ago | meritalk.com | John Curran

    Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate on June 13 aims to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare system by harnessing artificial intelligence technologies for that task. The Medicare Transaction Fraud Prevention Act is being sponsored by Sens. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Tim Sheehy, R-Mont.

  • Zscaler Earns AWS Government Competencies

    1 week ago | meritalk.com | John Curran

    Cloud security provider Zscaler, Inc., said it has earned key competencies under the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Government Competency – part of the broader AWS Competency Program – that recognizes AWS partners with expertise and experience in delivering mission-critical solutions to government agencies.

  • Walkinshaw Pledges Workforce Support, IT Oversight in Race to Succeed Connolly

    1 week ago | meritalk.com | John Curran

    James Walkinshaw, the Fairfax County, Va., supervisor and former chief of staff to Rep. Gerry Connolly, is pledging strong efforts to support the Federal workforce and improve oversight of government IT operations as he campaigns to succeed his former boss to represent the 11th district of Virginia in Congress. In the midst of a whirlwind campaign to succeed Rep.

  • NIST Cyber Center Publishes Final Zero Trust Implementation Guide

    1 week ago | meritalk.com | John Curran

    The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on June 11 published its final practice guide – Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture (NIST SP 1800-35). The guide, NIST said, “outlines results and best practices from the NCCoE effort featuring work with 24 vendors to demonstrate end-to-end Zero Trust Architectures.”In total, the guide demonstrates 19 sample zero trust architecture implementations, the agency said.

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John Curran
John Curran @DCJohnCurran
20 Jan 21

And the new Acting Federal CIO is...Maria Roat! (If you can wait until noon tomorrow...) https://t.co/5VzFUc8zAv

John Curran
John Curran @DCJohnCurran
23 Nov 20

Maybe tomorrow...

MeriTalk
MeriTalk @MeriTalk

After @USGSA Head @GSAEmily no-showed on the Hill today, House Dems @GerryConnolly and @RepMaloney offered to set up the call tomorrow with Murphy to discuss the Biden Transition. https://t.co/8oZdYFl4j1

John Curran
John Curran @DCJohnCurran
18 Nov 20

Thanks @C_C_Krebs.