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
Mason McDaniel, chief technology officer at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said ATF plans to shut down its remaining data center and transition all applications and data to the
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The General Services Administration issued a draft acquisition letter detailing procedures to authorize policy changes for purchasing consumption-based cloud services under the Federal Supply Schedule program, Federal News Network reported Monday.
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Dean Souleles, chief technology adviser at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said the U.S. intelligence community is advancing the use of artificial intelligence and one of the organizations adopting
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Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That expressing concerns about the privacy risks posed by the company’s facial recognition tool.
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Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, approved and released a new Department of Defense instruction that restructures DoD’s acquisition guidance to implement the
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Mark Esper, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said DoD has launched efforts to counter the threats posed by China and one of those is the creation
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Peter Ranks, deputy chief information officer for information enterprise at the Department of Defense, said he believes cloud could be used as a platform by DoD to facilitate software modernization, Federal Times
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The Defense Information Systems Agency is devising a strategy to help interested users transition to milDrive, its cloud-based storage service for desktop users, the Department of Defense reported Thursday.
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The Department of Homeland Security is set to test in late January nine system prototypes as part of the first phase of a project that seeks to develop artificial intelligence-based platforms that
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The Secret Service has initiated efforts to launch a new council to provide its office of investigations with insights on current trends in cyber crime, technology and financial crime, CyberScoop reported Wednesday.
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