The House Appropriations Committee has approved $474 million in funds for the Department of Homeland Securityâs network surveillance system that works to scan government Web traffic for intruders, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Lawmakers voted 32-17
MoreThe U.S. Army has started to accept bids on a potential five-year contract for technology research and development support work at the military branch’s new cyber electronic warfare laboratory, FierceGovernmentIT reported Tuesday.
MoreGen. Darren McDew, the White House nominee to lead the U.S. Transportation Command, told a Senate panel that network security will be among his priorities at Transcom if he is confirmed, DoD
MoreThe First Responder Network Authority is collaborating with industry to develop and commercialize a platform for first responders to communicate when they respond to emergencies in remote areas. The Mobile Communications Unit
MoreJeh Johnson, homeland security secretary, said the government’s 30-day review of federal cybersecurity one facet of a larger ongoing federal-wide effort to bolster network security. Johnson wrote in an opinion piece published
MoreAnn Dunkin, chief information officer of the Environmental Protection Agency, has called on government agencies to focus more on ways to safeguard critical data and networks from breaches and other cyber attacks in
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The Justice Department has issued a request for information on “best of breed” office technologies as the department plans a technology upgrade amid the emergence of the mobile workforce, Nextgov reported Monday. Hallie
MoreFederal CIO Tony Scott believes the accelerated security review of federal IT systems over the past month may reveal more intrusions as the government works to strengthen and update cybersecurity measures, The
MoreEngineers at the U.S. Army have developed a gun-based platform designed to counter threats posed by unmanned aerial systems, mortars, artillery and rockets, the service branch said Thursday. A research team at New
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The U.S. Army is looking at ideas for a “solid” network infrastructure to facilitate secure communications and interaction across the service in support of mission command, the Army reported Thursday. Lora Strum writes that
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