Six software providers to the K-12 education sector have voluntarily pledged to incorporate Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency principles into their product development processes. Classlink, Clever, D2L, GG4L, Instructure and PowerSchool signed
A defense spending bill passed by House lawmakers contains several provisions aimed at helping small firms to access more federal contracts and subcontracts, GovExec reported Tuesday. Charles Clark writes that the House’s
MoreJeanne Holm, Data.gov‘s evangelist, said the U.S. government’s open data portal features more than 105,000 datasets for public use and has attracted 4.5 million visitors since May 2009, FCW reported Tuesday. Mark
MoreSens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) have co-sponsored a bill that seeks to raise the salaries of federal civilian workers by 3.3 percent next year, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
MoreThe Defense Information Systems Agency is preparing a set of architecture and engineering design specifications for a joint information technology infrastructure among the military branches, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Jared Serbu
MoreArmy researchers have developed a smartphone-like technology that the branch designed to help platoon and squad leaders access imagery and videos from an unmanned system during combat operations. Soldiers tested the Small
MoreEric Fanning, undersecretary of the Air Force, has told Defense News in an interview published Monday that the branch has made budget trade-off decisions and also expressed worries about how the service will get
MoreRussia’s defense ministry plans to restructure the military’s aerospace defense forces organization VKO and develop new weapons against airborne threats by 2020 under a $55 billion modernization program, Defense News reported Sunday.
MoreThe Office of Personnel Management has expanded a program to help federal agencies analyze their workforce data and use that information to measure their progress in meeting human resource management goals, Federal
MoreThe Army, NASA and the University of Alabama have partnered to further explore three-dimensional printing methods that could aid the production of aerospace and defense technologies, Defense Systems reported Thursday. “When you
MoreThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has published an online catalog that contains software tool kits, technical sources and research data from many DARPA-backed computing projects, GCN reported Thursday. GCN reports that
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