The Office of Personnel Management has promoted Melvin Brown, deputy chief information officer, to CIO. Brown announced his appointment in a LinkedIn post published Sunday. He succeeded Guy Cavallo, who retired from
The Defense Health Agency has announced that the revised Tricare retail pharmacy network will add Walgreens-run pharmacies, effective Dec. 1, DoD News reported Wednesday. George Jones, chief of pharmacy operation at DHA, said
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The chief executives of 17 technology industry organizations have asked President-elect Donald Trump to advance investments in technology infrastructure as part of efforts to create jobs and build up the U.S. economy.
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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) has said he expects President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to file a supplemental bill to the defense budget measure for fiscal year 2017 “as soon as they
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Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia), chairman of the House Budget Committee and an orthopedic surgeon, has been selected to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President-elect Donald Trump’s
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The Defense Department, NASA and the General Services Administration have proposed a rule that seeks to encourage and facilitate communication between government procurement officials and industry during the acquisition process. The three agencies said in a
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A new Deltek report predicts federal spending on cloud computing platforms and services to increase from $3.1 billion in fiscal year 2016 to $6.4 billion by FY 2021. Deltek said Tuesday government investments in
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House and Senate lawmakers have reached a compromise on a bill that would allocate $619 billion in defense budget for fiscal year 2017, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. writes
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The U.S. Army has started to use new software designed to evaluate mobile applications in an effort to ensure that such apps meet government security standards and other requirements, the Army reported
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a Proposers Day on Dec. 7 via webcast to provide information on a program that seeks to explore mathematical methods for use in the development of human-machine
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The General Services Administration’s technology transformation service organization has released a new policy that seeks to help security researchers report cyber vulnerabilities in TTS-run systems. TTS issued the vulnerability disclosure policy in
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