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 leaders of the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the U.K. and the European Commission have committed to removing selected Russian banks from the SWIFT messaging system as part of efforts to
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Defense industry executives say their companies could be hit with billions of dollars in taxes and reduce spending on research and development if Congress fails to delay or repeal a 2017 law
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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is working on a commercial buying guide for intelligence, defense and federal civilian agencies as NGA shifts to commercial imagery analysis and GEOINT capability sources, Federal News Network
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The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released a joint advisory offering guidance on how U.S. organizations can detect and safeguard networks against WhisperGate and HermeticWiper malware used to
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced additional economic sanctions on Russia’s financial institutions and expanded debt and equity prohibitions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Treasury’s office of
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The White House has announced several actions it plans to carry out in 2022 to further build up domestic manufacturing, supply chains and workforce. The Biden administration grouped the measures into two
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President Biden on Tuesday signed into law a bill that seeks to identify and promote best practices and modernize acquisition and procurement processes in the federal government. Reps. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., and
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National Cyber Director Chris Inglis and Harry Krejsa, acting assistant national cyber director for strategy and research at the White House, said the U.S. should advance a “new social contract for the
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Matthew Travis, CEO of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Accreditation Body, said CMMC voluntary assessments could kick off in the spring of 2022, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. “We’re still pushing
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Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, commander of Space Systems Command, said “unity of effort” is needed to enable space procurement programs to go in the same direction and speed up the delivery of
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