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 Labor has released a new directive to promote enforcement and improve compliance evaluations of federal contractors as part of efforts to advance equal employment opportunity for workers. The directive
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The Small Business Administration has moved to increase the eligibility of small companies for SBA’s contracting and loan programs by releasing four final rules meant to revise small business size standards based
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The State Department has established a new bureau to address national security challenges, values considerations and economic opportunities associated with cyberspace, digital policy and digital technologies. The department said Monday the bureau
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Zipline, Flytrex, Alphabet’s Wing subsidiary and other companies have begun launching commercial drone delivery services across the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. San Francisco-based startup Zipline, for instance, uses fixed-wing
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Sharothi Pikar, command acquisition executive at U.S. Cyber Command, has been appointed deputy chief digital and AI officer, acquisitions, at the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. In her new role,
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Dan Tangherlini, former head of the General Services Administration, and Derek Kan, former deputy director at the Office of Management and Budget, appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended that U.S. Cyber Command come up with outcome-based metrics for Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture programs to support future Value Assessments. GAO said Wednesday such metrics
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Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, said the Thunderdome zero trust program and the Defense Enclave Services initiative are key to
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President Biden has issued a presidential determination to strengthen domestic production of critical materials used in manufacturing clean energy technologies and reduce dependence on foreign sources. The determination released in accordance with
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The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the Department of Defense integrate all characteristics of a comprehensive artificial intelligence strategy in future AI plans and strategies. GAO made the recommendation after it
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