The challenge of providing secure VPN tunnels to remote workers at scale illustrates why zero-trust security controls offer a smarter option.

GSA says it is "planning a new approach" for small business IT governmentwide acquisition contracts after "the federal government's requirements have evolved."

FEMA could use some help from bots as it tries to respond to many crisis, both internal and external.

There are still necessary opportunities to improve things like "authentication and identity management as we interface with our citizens," said Roat.

Silicon Valley tech company Anduril scored big in its latest round of investment.

Standardization will let the agency build applications once and move them anywhere in the environment, but more resources are needed.