Senior Tech Reporter

Carten Cordell

Carten Cordell is a Senior Technology Reporter for FedScoop. He is a former workforce and acquisition reporter at Federal Times, having previously served as online editor for Northern Virginia Magazine and Investigative Reporter for Watchdog.org, Virginia Bureau. Carten was a 2014 National Press Foundation Paul Miller Fellow and has a Master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is also a graduate of Auburn University and promises to temper his passions for college football while in the office.

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New federal CISO Handbook offers ‘one-stop shop’ for cyber executives

Tech

Quantum processors. (Photo by Steve Jurvetson / Flickr)

House Science chairman debuts plan for National Quantum Initiative

Defense

Rod Turk — Rod Turk, right, speaks May 31, 2018, at the Cyberthreat Intelligence Forum presented by FireEye and produced by FedScoop and CyberScoop. (FedScoop)

Commerce CIO Turk would like the IC’s help securing the 2020 census

Acquisition

e-commerce — (Getty Images)

Contractors worry e-commerce portals could create ‘parallel compliance’ models

Policy

Anne Rung (FedScoop)

Obama acquisition chief: The future of procurement is all about the customer

Policy

Reps. Elise Stefanik, John Katko and Richard Hanna, who represent New York’s 21st, 22nd and 24th districts respectively, visited Fort Drum, N.Y., as part of a congressional delegation March 10, 2015. Stefanik recently introduced a bill to create an independent commission to study the national security benefits of artificial intelligence. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Osama Ayyad.

Rep. Stefanik chats with industry on how DOD can leverage AI

Emerging Tech

A close-up of a superconducting qubit chip, about 6mm square. (Michael T. Fang, Martinis Group, UC Santa Barbara / image via National Science Foundation)

OSTP forms new subcommittee to focus on quantum technology

Defense

Alan Thomas GSA FAS — Alan Thomas speaks Nov. 14 at the Government Innovation Forum presented by Juniper Networks and produced by FedScoop. (FedScoop)

GSA schedules reform could reduce contracts for suppliers, acquisition chief says

Tech

DHS Department of Homeland Security — (U.S. Customs and Border Protection / Flickr)

How DHS moved its network to the cloud

Acquisition