The Office of Management and Budget has released a memorandum to provide agencies with fiscal year 2025 reporting guidance and deadlines in compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014,
The Office of Personnel Management has conducted the 2017 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey and found that this year’s global satisfaction index rose by 3 percentage points to 64, up from 61 percent in
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said President Donald Trump will decertify Iran under a 2015 U.S. law that directs the president to certify that the Middle Eastern country is in compliance
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The Defense Department has called on Congress to reinstate DoD’s oversight over security clearance processing work and cited the availability of information technology systems that can be used to manage new background
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House lawmakers have proposed a bipartisan bill that would authorize the U.S. president to use military force against the Islamic State militant group, Taliban, al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations for five years.
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Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, has said she plans to move the “bulk†of major defense acquisition programs and personnel associated with MDAPs back to the three service branches, Defense
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Defense Secretary James Mattis has issued a memorandum that details the Defense Department’s “three lines of effort†that aim to maintain U.S. military superiority amid security threats posed by North Korea, Russia, China,
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Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, has said the U.S. Navy has begun to explore ways on how to harness collected data to accelerate the decision-making
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Michael Griffin, former NASA administrator, has come out as the most likely candidate for the role of defense undersecretary for research and engineering, sources told Defense News. Griffin led the space agency
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The U.S. Army has released a draft document that describes how U.S. forces and allies will fight adversaries across air, ground, maritime, cyber and space domains in the period of 2025 through
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A new Congressional Budget Office report says the federal budget deficit in fiscal year 2017 ended Sept. 30 reached $668 billion, approximately $82 billion higher than the shortfall recorded in the previous fiscal year.
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