The General Services Administration has established new controls for its online registration platform for government contractors and federal assistance requests in an effort to build on measures implemented earlier this year to address
Dan Galik, associate deputy assistant secretary for security operations at the Department of Veterans Affairs, will assume the role of acting deputy assistant secretary and chief information security officer at the VA, Fedscoop reported
MoreThe Government Accountability Office has outlined the developments in the Federal Aviation Administration‘s efforts to integrate unmanned aircraft systems into national airspace and manage the six test sites for UAS research. GAO said
MoreBen Bernanke, former Federal Reserve board chairman and a current fellow at the Brookings Institution, believes that sequester-level cuts in the defense budget are indicative of “bad economic policy,” the Fiscal Times reported Monday. Rob
MoreThe Senate Democratic Caucus has called on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to hold an initial round of bipartisan budget negotiations “as soon as possible” to avoid a potential fiscal crisis in the fall.
MoreThe First Responder Network Authority board has approved the proposed $126 million budget for several projects under its strategic program road map for fiscal year 2016. FirstNet said Monday its board voted to allocate the
MorePresident Barack Obama has signed an executive order that establishes the previously experimental Presidential Innovation Fellows program a permanent initiative in federal government, Federal Times reported Monday. Aaron Boyd writes that the program,
MoreThe Internal Revenue Service has revised its earlier estimate of the number of taxpayers affected in the hacking of tax return information from 114,000 to 334,000, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
MoreThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is exploring technology opportunities in the field of materials science as its Defense Sciences Office works to develop materials for usage in national security. DARPA said Friday DSO is
MoreThe Government Accountability Office urges the Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs to continue their work with the Interagency Program Office to establish interoperability between their electronic health record systems. GAO said in
MoreJeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has issued a task assignment for the Homeland Security Advisory Council to form a cybersecurity subcommittee that will support the council’s efforts in the
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