Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called on Congress to take up the proposed cybersecurity legislation and prioritize breach notification standards following reports of an Excellus BlueCross BlueShield data breach in December 2013. The senator
MoreArati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has discussed the agency’s goal to apply technology and research in an effort to address national security issues, DoD News reported Thursday. Prabhakar
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The First Responders Group of the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has launched a mobile application that provides response teams access to search-and-rescue protocols, strategies and other information. DHS
MoreThe Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will award $110,000 in total prizes to the winning teams of the Automatic Speech recognition in Reverberant Environments challenge. IARPA said Thursday the ASpIRE challenge launched
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has demonstrated a new robotic landing gear system designed to enable helicopters to land on and take off from angled surfaces. DARPA said Thursday the system features four jointed
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Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work has said that post-war military budgets and a growing competition in weapon systems development have eroded the U.S.’ technological superiority, DoD News reported Thursday. Terri Moon Cronk
MoreThe General Services Administration has taken part as an organizing partner in the Energy Departmentâs Interior Lighting Campaign through its Green Proving Ground initiative. GSAâs GPG program seeks to evaluate early-stage technology
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Federal CIO Tony Scott has indicated that the government will release guidance on federal network security and incident response measures in the fall, Nextgov reported Thursday. Jack Moore writes that the guidelines will
MoreDirector of National Intelligence James Clapper has said he will prioritize efforts to shield intelligence agency employees from the impact of possible sequestration return in fiscal 2016, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday.
MoreSome lawmakers are uncertain if the Senate could tackle 22 proposed amendments to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act following their month-long recess due to other legislative priorities, National Journal reported Thursday. Kaveh
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