The Senate on Tuesday voted 77–23 to confirm Douglas Collins as secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Hill reported that Collins will be responsible for the VA, which has more
The Department of Energy’s office of cybersecurity, energy security and emergency response has advised partners in the government and energy industry to be vigilant to phishing attacks, malicious emails and other cyber
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Kevin Cox, a Department of Homeland Security official, said his team is fielding a cloud-based shared services dashboard as part of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program to help agencies operationalize their
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The Census Bureau is seeking “economic indicator” status from the Office of Management and Budget for one of its experimental data products created using new data methods and sources to address gaps in the
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Google said it would restrict the federal government’s access to its trove of location data from users and would not share such data within the industry as it looks for ways to
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Jothi Dugar, chief information security officer of the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Information Technology, said the NIH’s Optimize IT Security program reflects the “people-centric approach” the agency is taking to address
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The Department of Defense and industry organizations on Tuesday started conducting daily calls to discuss the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the defense industrial base, National Defense reported Wednesday.
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The Department of Defense's office of the inspector general has found in its follow-up audit that DoD components failed to mitigate cyber vulnerabilities in a consistent manner because they were not able
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The chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees still hope to meet the deadline for the markup of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021 amid the
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Dale Cabaniss, director of the Office of Personnel Management, immediately resigned from her post Tuesday, Politico reported. Michael Rigas, deputy director at OPM, will lead the agency on an interim basis, according
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The White House has called on artificial intelligence professionals to come up with new data and text mining processes to help answer key scientific questions about the new coronavirus. The call to action
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