Ted Kaouk, chief data officer and director of the Division of Data at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will assume additional responsibilities as CFTC’s first chief artificial intelligence officer. In this capacity,
The Federal Communications Commission has designated new innovation zones near Northeastern University in Boston and North Carolina State University in Raleigh to enable qualified licensees to conduct research and test Open Radio
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected teams from Yale University, University of Washington and Broad Institute to support a program meant to develop therapeutics for multidrug resistant microbial infections. The
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The General Services Administration (GSA) will soon issue XML-automated validations to enable cloud services providers seeking an authority to operate to check whether all the required data is included in their security
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The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new cyber strategy that comes with three lines of effort: defend and operate the service’s Enterprise Mission Platform; safeguard the Marine Transportation System and operate
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has issued a 47-page report outlining a list of recommendations to improve the cybersecurity posture of federal agencies. The Senate panel’s Federal Cybersecurity report
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Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, said artificial intelligence, hypersonics, 3D printing, unmanned systems, long-range precision fires and other emerging technologies could
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National Cyber Director Chris Inglis has expressed support for a plan to establish a bureau of cyber statistics that would collect and analyze data related to cyberthreats and cyber incidents. The Cyberspace
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Chirag Parikh, former director of space policy at the National Security Council, has been named executive secretary of the White House National Space Council chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris. He will
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Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., have called on the Department of Commerce (DOC), including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to further build up efforts to protect
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Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, said the U.S. should develop the next generation of geomatics scientists, mathematicians and engineers to
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