The House Armed Services Committee has named Eric Schmidt, technical adviser to Alphabet’s board; and Eric Horvitz, director of Microsoft Labs; to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The commission was
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John Windom, executive director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ office of electronic health record modernization, has said VA has created 18 workflow councils and completed state reviews of the first implementation
More The Government Accountability Office has called on eight federal departments and their component agencies to organize their policies and review and approval processes for their information technology budgets.
More Researchers at the Department of Homeland Security have built a new tool that offers faster assessment of soil conditions around bridge pillars after hurricanes and heavy rains that may affect bridge stability.
More A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office shows that the Defense Department is failing to properly guide contracting officials in awarding contracts through the lowest price technically acceptable process.
More Conner Prochaska, former senior advisor and chief of staff for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, has been named the Energy Department's chief commercialization officer. Prochaska will direct the Office of Technology Transitions,
More Jake Wooley, Department of Energy information technology program manager, has said the modified guidance on the Data Center Optimization Initiative seeks to simplify some reporting requirements around the program, Federal News Network reported Tuesday.
More The Defense Department's inspector general has determined that the DoD failed to fully carry out the mandate of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015. The law calls on the DoD and
More Dave Powner, a 16-year Government Accountability Office veteran, told FedTech in an interview published Tuesday that the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard has provided agency chief information officers authority to oversee
More Michael Griffin, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, has said the Defense Department seeks to expand its budget for directed-energy weapons for missile defense operations in the next few years, Defense News
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