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 Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released an annual report providing an assessment of worldwide threats to U.S. national security. The 2022 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence
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Farooq Mitha, director of the Department of Defense’s office of small business programs, said DOD is working on a new strategy to encourage more small businesses to participate in defense contracting, Defense
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The U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission and the Selective Service System will receive investments through the Technology Modernization Fund to update key platforms and safeguard personal data. “This funding will allow the PRC
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The Department of Defense, NASA and the General Services Administration have released a final rule that seeks to raise the domestic content threshold for federal procurements to 75 percent by calendar year
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Bill Streilein, formerly principal staff of the biotechnology and human systems division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, has joined the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center as chief technology officer. He succeeds
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The Office of Management and Budget has called on Congress to provide supplemental funding to deliver additional assistance to Ukraine and support ongoing COVID-19 response efforts in the U.S. The Biden administration
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Sasha Baker, deputy undersecretary for policy at the Department of Defense, said integrated deterrence will be at the core of the upcoming National Defense Strategy, which will integrate the 2022 Nuclear Posture
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Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, commander of Space Systems Command, said “system of systems integration” will be his primary responsibility and that integration of platforms across the Department of the Air Force’s space
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Frank Kendall, secretary of the Air Force and a three-time Wash100 Award winner, said there are seven operational imperatives for the service branch to modernize to counter emerging threats and challenges and
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The Senate has approved a legislative package that would direct critical infrastructure operators and owners and federal civilian agencies to report major cyberattacks and ransomware payments to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
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