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 General Services Administration will move the Federal Procurement Data System’s main reporting functions – administrative, standard, ad hoc and static – to the System for Award Management’s beta website by March
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The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would codify the General Services Administration’s Federal Risk Authorization Modernization Program, Federal Times reported Wednesday.
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Jason Klitenic, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, mentioned supply chain security-related questions that ODNI intends to address and one of those concerns with the intelligence community’s
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The Government Accountability Office has said the binding operational directives issued by the Department of Homeland Security have been effective in helping federal agencies strengthen their cybersecurity posture.
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Mark Esper, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said in a memo that the Pentagon’s $740B budget request for fiscal year 2021 would advance weapons modernization,
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Bill Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will publish a new strategy to further advance sharing of cyber threat data with industry,
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The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology convened Monday to discuss its focus on artificial intelligence and quantum computing, Nextgov reported Monday.
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Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett has handed over to congressional leaders the service’s proposed organizational plan for the new Space Force in accordance with the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, SpaceNews
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Officials said the Air Force and the Navy are accelerating efforts to deliver new platforms designed to replace legacy systems of the U.S. nuclear triad, National Defense reported Friday. Vice Adm. Johnny
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Suzette Kent, federal chief information officer and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, said the Federal Data Strategy will help establish a data reskilling pilot in addition to delivering a sense of data
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