Lawmakers Unveil Plans for Agency Telework and Cloud Security

NextGov: Tech and cyber watchers will be focused on the Senate floor this week where the conference version of the National Defense Authorization Act is awaiting final passage. The House passed it Thursday by a vote of 359-54.  

The cyber and tech-heavy conference bill banned the Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE from federal contracts as expected. It also gave the Pentagon more authority to bar other companies with questionable foreign ties and ordered more details about Defense Department’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract, which opened for bids Thursday.

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