At least 100 lawmakers have sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee to call for annual funding of more than $32 billion to support the National Institutes of Health‘s biomedical research. Rep. Chris
MoreFederal CIO Tony Scott believes federal agencies must share cyber systems alongside information to build up government cybersecurity and shared responsibility, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. Billy Mitchell writes that Scott said at the publication’s
MoreA new MeriTalk survey of 150 federal information technology leaders indicates almost 92 percent of managers believe there is an urgent need to update their agencies’ IT applications. Fifty-two percent of those
MoreThe Government Accountability Office recommends that the Defense Department collaborate with Congress to make the Test Program for Negotiation of Comprehensive Small Business Subcontracting Plans permanent. GAO said Monday the program has helped 12 participating companies to
MoreNASA is set to launch eight space technology payloads on reduced gravity flights aboard aircraft and commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicles. The space agency said Wednesday it selected five technology payloads for
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A new Government Accountability Office report says the majority of 24 federal agencies studied by GAO still have security control weaknesses that make their information and systems vulnerable to cyber threats. GAO said
MoreThe General Services Administration launched an updated online portal Monday in an effort to create a new user experience for mobile visitors and government clients. âWith the focus on mobile users, the refreshed GSA.gov
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Army and Navy personnel have started to use the Joint Enterprise Network Manager platform in an effort to support operational tests of the Mobile User Objective System, the Army website reported Monday. JENM
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NASA has selected the Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct study on humanoid robots under a two-year, $500,000 research and development project. The MIT team led by Russ Tedrake will
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U.S. Army troops have completed a two-week training exercise on air and missile defense planning control systems at Helemano Military Reservation in Hawaii. The 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command’s Sea Dragons
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