The Office of Personnel Management has launched an online cybersecurity education program for federal employees and their families in a move to help bolster the cybersecurity workforce, FCW reported Friday. Chase Gunter
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Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has said the service branch has started to consider emerging platforms in the areas of robotics, biotechnology, transportation, nanotechnology, explosives and information technology as part of
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The White House has announced it will create a new government organization to perform background checks on federal employees and contractors as part of its push to reform the security clearance and investigation
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French President Francois Hollande has said his government plans to strike a deal that would allow the government of India to buy 36 Dassault Aviation-built Rafale aircraft from France for approximately $9 billion,
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is inviting interested government, academic and corporate personnel to become part of a new working group under the agency-led National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education. NIST said Thursday
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Eric Fanning, nominee for the U.S. Army secretary post, said he plans to explore strategies to ensure military personnel readiness and reverse a proposed brigade size reduction at the Army if confirmed, Defense News reported Thursday. Jen
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Matt Goodrich, director of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program at the General Services Administration, has said stakeholders believe the program is a potential “market maker” and has influenced how industry gauges cloud security.
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Sarah Zabel, vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, believes the Defense Department should go beyond smartphones in its mobility programs, Fedscoop reported Thursday. Greg Otto writes the Air Force major general
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Michael Witherell, vice chancellor for research at the University of California Santa Barbara, has been approved by the UC Board of Regents to serve as director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Witherell
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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has said the Energy Department plans to award $50 million in funds to support the development of vehicle technologies that support efforts to achieve fuel efficiency and reduce
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