President Donald Trump has appointed Robert Salesses, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, as acting secretary of the Department of Defense, DOD News reported Monday. Salesses will serve as interim DOD secretary
Congress prevented a debt default by approving a measure that would increase the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion, CNBC reported Wednesday. The House voted 221-209 early Wednesday to pass the measure. The
More
Alex Stamos, partner at the Krebs Stamos Group and a federal advisory committee member at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said he believes basic security functions should not be sold as
More
The National Science Foundation has asked interested stakeholders to submit potential research topics that could help address existing and future societal and national challenges as part of the Convergence Accelerator program. The
More
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and General Services Administration (GSA) facilitate collaboration between the U.S. Digital Service and the 18F program to
More
Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said CISA has added a critical vulnerability involving the log4j software library to its “catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities” to incite federal
More
The U.S. Space Force has started conducting a war game called Space Flag at Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado to test the resiliency of satellite networks to threats posed by near-peer
More
Frank Kendall, secretary of the Air Force and a three-time Wash100 Award winner, said he has top seven priorities aimed at giving the service branch deployable capabilities against near-peer competitors such as
More
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has introduced new guidance providing ways to ensure the security of social media accounts operated by organizations. The measures outlined in the Capacity Enhancement Guide seek
More
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is ready to respond to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, NBC News reported Sunday. “What the president made very clear to President Putin, what I’ve
More
The U.S. Army and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) have issued a broad agency announcement to seek new computer architectures that could help the Intelligence Community carry out its data
More