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 National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School has announced the appointment to its advisory board of new members who held leadership roles at intelligence and federal agencies
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Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has released a report that documents the experiences of three U.S. companies targeted by the ransomware
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is soliciting comments on proposed rules to improve and standardize disclosures by public companies regarding cybersecurity risk management, incident reporting, strategy and governance. The proposal would
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The General Services Administration increased its goal to provide federal contracting opportunities for small disadvantaged businesses to 21 percent in fiscal year 2022, up from 5 percent in FY 2021. “This is
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The FBI has issued a report stating that its Internet Crime Complaint Center received 847,376 complaints of alleged online crimes in 2021, up 7 percent from the previous year. The 2021 Internet
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The Defense Innovation Unit and the Defense Acquisition University have come up with a 12-month program to train civilian and military contracting officers on the Commercial Solutions Opening process as part of
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Richard Creed, director of the U.S. Army’s Combined Arms Center doctrine division, said the service’s multidomain operations concept for warfighting will become a doctrine in June to address great power competition and
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Ted Kaouk, chairman of the Federal Chief Data Officers Council, said the council believes that there is a “unique opportunity” to advance CDO as a new profession within the federal government, Federal
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William LaPlante, the Biden administration’s nominee for the role of undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, said he believes the U.S. needs more production lines that can manufacture
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The NATO Communications and Information Agency wants to participate in ongoing discussions over 5G standardization to ensure that the wireless technology could be used to support both military and civilian applications, Defense
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