Mike McCord serves as the under secretary of defense (comptroller) / chief financial officer of the U.S. Department of Defense. He serves as the principal staff assistant and adviser to the secretary of
The White House’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal designates the Treasury Department as the new head of the government spending transparency website USASpending.Gov, NextGov reports. The 11-year-old spending transparency website is currently managed by
MoreThe White House has released its budget proposal for fiscal 2014 which includes $13 billion of a total $3.8 trillion in spending for cybersecurity programs, according to a Bloomberg article. US Chief Information Officer
MoreLockheed Martin Corp.‘s fighter jets and General Dynamics‘Â Virginia-class submarine have secured $8.4 billion and $5.4 billion, respectively, in President Barack Obamaâs 2014 budget plan, the Washington Business Journal reports. The U.S. President
MoreA group of 700 special operations veterans have joined together to urge members of Congress to give support to a select committee meant to investigate last year’s Benghazi embassy attack, according to
MorePresident Barack Obama is seeking $100 billion in cuts to the defense budget over the next decade, down from $500 billion that were originally required under sequestration. Under the President’s $3.77 trillion
MoreThe Department of Navy‘s chief information officer released a memorandum last week which said the Navy and Marine Corps should begin migrating some of their information technology systems to the cloud. The
MorePresident Obama signed a continuing resolution into law on March 26 which requires NASA, the Commerce and Justice departments and the National Science Foundation to clear IT acquisitions with companies that maintain supply-chain
MoreRepresentative Dutch Ruppersberger, House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee ranking member has met with the Chinese equivalent of the NSA director. Ruppersburger said the head of the PLA’s General Staff Department’s Third Department wanted to
MoreAn official has confirmed that Iran plans to launch seven satellites in 2013, Tehran Times reports. Iran Space Agency Director Hamid Fazeli said that several universities will help the state develop the
MoreA report has just come out detailing the advanced age of the majority of cyber workers in the U.S. Federal government. The was released on Wednesday which found that nearly 80 percent
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