The White House has released draft guidance that details several actions on how federal agencies can develop and execute plans to update their information technology systems. Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott wrote in
MoreThe U.S. Army has developed a bionic knee device designed to help soldiers generate energy and recharge batteries through walking and other knee movements, the Army said Wednesday. Jane Benson writes the
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A tool developed by researchers from NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center is now available as an open-source program to help private industry and other agency centers plot a missionâs path to interplanetary destinations. NASA said Wednesday
MoreA research team funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has developed a method that uses electrical stimulation to encode intensity levels of touch pressure in the nervous system. Researchers from the
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Rob Cook, a former Pixar executive, has been appointed commissioner of the General Services Administration‘s Technology Transformation Service that was established in a push to boost federal government technology. GSA said Thursday Cook
MoreThe General Services Administration has introduced three initiatives under GSA’s Digital Communities that aim to increase the adoption of digital public services across the federal government. Justin Herman, manager of governmentwide social media and digital
MoreU.S. Navy Adm. Michael Rogers has identified talent and motivation as two key elements in the Defense Departmentâs effort to bolster the nationâs cyber infrastructure, DoD News reported Tuesday. Rogers told a CyberMaryland 2016 session
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The Defense Department‘s public-private partnership MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator has announced winners of the inaugural hackathon event that brought together researchers, entrepreneurs, first responders and military personnel to develop disaster relief
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National Intelligence Director James Clapper has said the intelligence community believes Russia is not responsible for the internet outage that took down several websites in the U.S., DoD Buzz reported Tuesday. Clapper points to a
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Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has said U.S. officials think the distributed denial of service attack against internet performance management company Dyn has been addressed, Nextgov reported Monday. Johnson
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