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
U.S. officials said China-based Huawei Technologies uses “back doors” designed for law enforcement applications to secretly access mobile phone networks worldwide, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
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The General Services Administration’s Centers of Excellence is helping the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center form and launch the Joint Common Foundation as part of a partnership announced in September that
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Deputy Defense Secretary and 2020 Wash100 Award winner David Norquist said the Pentagon’s proposed budget of $705.4 billion for fiscal year 2021 seeks to prepare the U.S. armed forces for “high-end” warfare, DoD
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A federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted four Chinese military members on charges of hacking into credit-reporting firm Equifax and conspiring to steal personal data on nearly 150M U.S. citizens, The Wall
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The Government Accountability Office has called on the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide contracting staff with comprehensive guidance and training related to the Federal Supply Schedules program.
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Gen. Joseph Martin, vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army, said changes to the service’s acquisition process have helped speed up modernization efforts and deployment of new equipment to warfighters, the Army
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RAND is conducting a one-year study for the U.S. Space Force to evaluate the commercial space industry’s capabilities and identify space platforms that could be of benefit to the service branch, SpaceNews
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Federal information technology leaders said their agencies are using “low code” software development processes to accelerate the development and updates of client-facing applications, FCW reported Thursday.
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Attorney General William Barr said China’s superiority in the development of 5G networks poses a threat to the U.S. economy and national security, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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The Department of Defense found $5.7 billion in savings following an internal review of “fourth estate” agencies, Defense News reported Thursday. DoD will redirect the identified funding towards new priorities in support
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