The Senate on Monday voted 99-0 to confirm Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as the current administration’s secretary of state, Reuters reported. Rubio’s confirmation came just hours after President Donald Trump was sworn
The Department of Defense has awarded one-year contracts to Texas A&M University and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana to perform applied hypersonics research. Texas A&M will quantify near-space and high-altitude
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The Department of Veterans Affairs will receive an investment through the Technology Modernization Fund to implement a single sign-in service to help streamline access of veterans to benefits and services. VA will
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is soliciting comments on two initial guidance documents that were developed as part of the Secure Cloud Business Applications project. The SCuBA project seeks to help
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Six technology industry groups have called on White House officials to consider four additional priorities as the Biden administration works on a new executive order to prevent identity theft in benefits and
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Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the U.S. pledged not to carry out destructive direct-ascent anti-satellite missile tests as part of efforts to establish international rules and norms for the responsible and
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Leslie Henderson, formerly chief of the contracting office for information technology at the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, has been named chief of policy and oversight within the acquisition and contracting organization
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John Sherman, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said he considers cybersecurity as his “absolute top priority” and that DOD wants to be a
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House lawmakers asked identity verification company ID.me through a letter to provide a detailed list of its contracts with federal, state and local government agencies and information about its facial recognition software
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William LaPlante, most recently president and CEO of Draper and a former Air Force acquisition chief, took oath as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense. LaPlante, who was
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The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy launched a national strategy that seeks to facilitate collaboration between government agencies and the private sector to advance the development of in-space servicing,
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