Michael Poth, a 14-year public safety veteran and former police captain, has joined the First Responder Network Authority as chief executive. He will be responsible for the oversight of FirstNet’s partnerships with industry
MoreThe Department of Homeland Security has demonstrated an ECaTS-developed public safety analytics tool at the APCO 2015 event in California. DHS said Monday it exhibited how the ECaTS dashboard assists federal and state
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The U.S. Agriculture Department has kicked off its search for a full-time deputy chief information officer for operations and infrastructure. USDAÂ said in a USAJobs notice that the position is designated as a
MorePresident Barack Obama has signed an executive order that establishes the previously experimental Presidential Innovation Fellows program a permanent initiative in federal government, Federal Times reported Monday. Aaron Boyd writes that the program,
MoreGen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said 80 percent of the U.S. armed forces should understand the threat posed by what he called near-peer competitors, DoD News
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The Internal Revenue Service has revised its earlier estimate of the number of taxpayers affected in the hacking of tax return information from 114,000 to 334,000, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
MoreThe Congressional Budget Office has said further sequestration may not be required since appropriations for defense and nondefense initiatives for fiscal year 2015 do not go beyond the caps on discretionary budget authority.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is exploring technology opportunities in the field of materials science as its Defense Sciences Office works to develop materials for usage in national security. DARPA said Friday DSO is
MoreThe Defense Department wants to increase the number of unmanned U.S. military aircraft flights by 50 percent over the next four years in an effort to monitor trouble spots worldwide, the Wall
MoreThe U.S. Navy has created a new process to move naval technologies through the prototyping and demonstration phases faster than usual, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jared Serbu writes the military service
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