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
Andrew Mara, most recently executive vice president at the Center for Naval Analyses, has joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as head of its national security analysis department, commonly referred
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President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to establish a new committee tasked with developing policies and standards to ensure the security and protection of federal facilities. The Interagency Security Committee
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Rick Therrien, director of cybersecurity operations at the Internal Revenue Service, said the IRS has made progress in collecting audit logs and has begun automating its cybersecurity response playbooks by merging log
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Defense Innovation Board officials pointed to efforts to streamline the acquisition process, rapid technology deployment and promotion of competition as some of the key challenges to modernization, GovCIO Media & Research reported
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started soliciting information on potential vendors that could provide classified cyberspace operations and information operations, or COIO, research and development support services. The DARPA Information
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The U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General has recommended that the U.S. Navy delay the production phase of its MQ-25 Stingray drone program until relevant tests are completed or the program’s
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Chief Information Officer has asked for information regarding potential sources of support services for the department-wide implementation of zero trust architecture. To comply
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The Office of Federal Procurement Policy within the Office of Management and Budget has requested feedback on a proposed OMB circular aimed at expanding federal agencies’ access to relevant acquisition data. The circular
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NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration plan to release a solicitation for the procurement of two Solar Wind Plasma Sensor instruments, or SWiPS, as part of the Space Weather Next Lagrange
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President Joe Biden has expressed his intent to nominate W. Kimryn Rathmell, a physician-scientist oncologist and educator, to lead the National Cancer Institute. “The National Cancer Institute is central to the success of the
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