Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said the Defense Department is in search of new approaches on how to speed up the campaign against the Islamic State militant group, DoD News reported Wednesday.
MoreCongress unveiled a fiscal 2016 appropriations bill that contains language to exempt Energy Department-funded research centers from a spending oversight requirement stated in the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, FCW reported Wednesday. FITARA
MoreTrevor Rudolph, chief of cyber and national security unit at the Office of Management and Budget, has said the White House will require federal agencies to identify cybersecurity-related career areas that face
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President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to implement new initiatives for federal agencies to attract and develop future Senior Executive Service members who can help transform government. Obama instructed agency deputy secretaries
MoreAdewale “Wally” Adeyemo, deputy director of the National Economic Council, will succeed Caroline Atkinson as the president’s deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Nick Timiraos writes
MoreCongressional budget negotiators have reached a tentative agreement on a $1 trillion spending package that would fund most agencies through the end of fiscal 2016, USA Today reported Tuesday. Erin Kelly writes government
MoreKevin Shelly of MarkLogic has addressed data management issues in the government during a panel discussion with officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Army and Customs and Border
MoreEllen Hughes-Cromwick, an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, has been named chief economist at the Commerce Department. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said Tuesday that Hughes-Cromwick
MoreClifton Triplett, senior information technology and cybersecurity adviser at the Office of Personnel Management, has said the Islamic State militant group may potentially orchestrate a cyber attack on OPM’s computer networks, Nextgov reported
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The Government Accountability Office has recommended the Defense Department update its plan for DoD’s acquisition workforce and release guidance on the utilization of the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund. GAO made the recommendation after an analysis showed six
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