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The Department of Homeland Security has partnered with a consortium led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to establish a new center of excellence to develop critical infrastructure security tools and strategies. DHS

The departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Treasury and Homeland Security use service level agreements to procure cloud computing services from the private sector, according to a Government Accountability Office report.

The Defense Department reduced its number of security clearance holders by 900,000 from fiscal year 2013 through the first quarter of fiscal year 2016 in an effort to address potential insider threats, the Federation of

The Marine Corps Systems Command is working to complete the first phase in fielding its Tactical Service Orientated Architecture data-sharing software platform in support of efforts to consolidate various tactical data systems across combat operation centers.

A U.S. Army Cyber Command official has said the command has launched expeditionary cyber exercises designed to help combatant commanders and troops build up capabilities in cyber electromagnetic activities and assess potential

The U.S. Marine Corps has launched a cyberspace warfare group to help man, equip and train the military branch’s cyber mission teams to conduct defensive and offensive operations. The service branch said March 25 the Marine Corps Cyberspace

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has issued a request for comments to identify the potential advantages and challenges of implementing Internet-connected devices. NTIA said Tuesday the Commerce Department will use gathered input to create a green paper about

The U.S. Army‘s Research Institute of Environmental Medicine continues to develop a computer program that could create three-dimensional, full-anatomy avatars of individual soldiers regardless of gender and body shape and size. Gary Zientara