A Congressional Budget Office report indicates federal agencies can use energy savings performance contracts to save on their electricity bills as budget appropriations decline. Under an ESPC, a contractor shoulders upfront costs
MoreSen. Thomas Carper (D-DE) has proposed a new cybersecurity bill that pushes for threat intelligence sharing between the private sector and government by easing regulatory obstacles, National Journal reported Wednesday. Dustin Volz
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Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work says that the Defense Department‘s fiscal 2016 budget proposal will enable the department to pick up long-term modernization programs following delays brought about by the recent sequestration, DoD News
MoreThe Treasury Department said the U.S. budget deficit hit $194 billion for the four months of fiscal 2015, compared with the $183 billion shortfall in the same period last fiscal year, the Wall Street Journal
MoreThe General Services Administration has found that use of a GSA-managed reverse auction portal grew more than 1,000 percent over the past fiscal year. Joan Kornblith, communications manager at GSA’s Federal Acquisition
MoreRobert Cardillo, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has said NGA will continue to embark on open data initiatives to make geospatial resources publicly available, FCW reported Tuesday. Cardillo, an inductee into
MoreThe National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a proposal to update its security guide for industrial control systems. NIST incorporated previous feedback from an initial public consultation into the final
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has presented several of its technology development projects with other government agencies and companies at the annual ARPA-E innovation summit. Many ARPA-E project teams have secured private
MoreThe Office of Management and Budget will release agency enterprise data inventories to the public in response to a 2013 request by the Sunlight Foundation under the Freedom of Information Act, the foundation reported
MoreRear Adm. Sean Filipowski, director of the warfare integration directorate within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, has been assigned as senior military adviser for cyber to the defense undersecretary
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