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
Council on Foreign Relations fellows Michael Horowitz and Lauren Kahn said the Department of Defense’s move to advance the integration of data and artificial intelligence through the creation of the office of
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Bob Kolasky, most recently director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s National Risk Management Center, said key to CISA’s mission are ongoing initiatives meant to strengthen partnerships with industry over the
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Department of State will play a key role in the implementation of an executive order on digital assets and its embassies worldwide will work with
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The General Services Administration highlighted several cybersecurity and digital modernization initiatives that were funded through the American Rescue Plan signed in March 2021. GSA said Thursday ARP provided $1 billion for the
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A Lockheed Martin official said the Missile Defense Agency used a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to fire an advanced variant of the Patriot missile against a simulated target during a
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A group of hackers with links to the Chinese government compromised the computer networks in six U.S. state governments as part of a campaign that included the exploitation of internet-facing web applications
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed to amend its rules to improve and standardize disclosures by public companies regarding incident reporting, cybersecurity risk management, governance and strategy. The proposal would require
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The House on Wednesday passed a $1.5 trillion budget package to fund the federal government through the end of September, The Hill reported. The omnibus package would provide more than $780 billion
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Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said DOD will kick off planning for the second sprint of the Rapid Defense
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The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has announced that cloud service providers that maintain federal information are covered by a binding operational directive issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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