The Senate on Monday voted 99-0 to confirm Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as the current administration’s secretary of state, Reuters reported. Rubio’s confirmation came just hours after President Donald Trump was sworn
The program management office for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has developed a set of steps to advance FedRAMP modernization as part of efforts to enhance federal cloud cybersecurity. FedRAMP said
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The Air Force Research Laboratory‘s Information Directorate has worked with industry and academic organizations to establish an industrial support system to help the U.S. enhance its quantum computing capabilities. AFRL has collaborated with multiple
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a report outlining notable technology gaps for research and development organizations to consider when advancing long-term innovation in next-generation communications systems, or NextG. NIST said
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The Internal Revenue Service plans to implement a new leadership structure in early 2024 as part of efforts to further drive transformation work and update the organizational structure that has been in
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Richard DalBello, director of the Office of Space Commerce at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said OSC has made efforts to develop and implement the Traffic Coordination System for Space, or
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John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a two-time Wash100 awardee, said the DOD is considering plans to begin work on the second iteration of the Joint Warfighting
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The Department of Energy has launched a new office to ensure that investments in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductors, biotechnology and other critical and emerging technologies — or CET — leverage DOE’s
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The Department of Justice has issued guidelines detailing the process companies may use to ask DOJ to delay disclosures of material cybersecurity incidents required by the Securities and Exchange Commission. DOJ said
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Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and a two-time Wash100 awardee, said NGA will soon ask vendors to submit their offers as it plans to award “significant” contracts
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Mara Karlin, who is currently performing the duties of deputy under secretary of defense for policy, will leave the Department of Defense next week for academia. Sasha Baker, acting under secretary of
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