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
Peter Ranks, deputy chief information officer for information enterprise at the Department of Defense, said DoD should “decouple” hardware and software development to speed up updates of systems’ capabilities, FedScoop reported Wednesday.
More
Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment and 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the Department of Defense (DoD) expects to announce later this month the first projects under the Allied Prototyping
More
Nicolas Chaillan, chief software officer of the U.S. Air Force, said the service branch’s effort to link the military across all domains through the Joint All-Domain Command and Control program would not
More
A Cyberspace Solarium Commission report recommends the creation of new cybersecurity-focused independent committees in Congress and a Senate-confirmed national cyber director at the White House, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The commission concluded
More
Bill Zielinski, assistant commissioner of the General Services Administration’s office of information technology category, said GSA hopes to award a contract for the e-commerce platform program by the end of March or soon
More
The General Services Administration has released the final Multiple Award Schedules modification guidance meant to help contractors modify their contracts based on the consolidated MAS vehicle.
More
Thomas Modly, acting secretary of the Navy, is commissioning a task force to carry out a study to look at the future role of carrier-based naval aviation in the global security environment
More
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed amendments to the current exempt offering framework under the Securities Act of 1933 in an effort to expand investment opportunities and advance capital formation. "Emerging
More
John Whitley, who performs the duties of director of the office of cost assessment and program evaluation at the Department of Defense, said the office of DoD’s chief management officer is reviewing
More
The U.S. Navy is dropping plans to extend by another 10 years the expected 35-year service lives of DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers after it found that the plan was not cost
More