The CIA has rolled out an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform designed to facilitate collaboration among 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, Nextgov reported Friday. Frank Konkel writes the
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Stephen Cauffman, lead for disaster resilience at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, says a new nationwide initiative led by NIST aims to provide local communities with tools to develop plans for disaster
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The General Services Administration‘s DigitalGov office has released three new social media tool kits to aid federal agencies’ social engagement efforts in support of the SocialGov program, Fedscoop reported Monday. The federal social media policy
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The Pentagon has updated its countermeasures for weapons of mass destruction to focus efforts on preventing high-yield explosive activities at an early stage, the American Forces Press Service reported Monday. Cheryl Pellerin
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The Office of Science and Technology Policy has published a draft roadmap aiming to incorporate open government principles into three key projects in the innovation area. OSTP’s open government plan includes strategies
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked for proposals of methods or systems to help unmanned aerial systems share data with each other and function as a team, Military & Aerospace
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Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said government leaders need to set aside their differences and increase cooperation to protect the U.S. from cyber attacks and other national security threats, Fedscoop reported
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Nine teams of researchers have been selected by NASA to join a collaborative organization that will work on a virtual setting to support the agency’s human space exploration programs. The Solar System
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The military’s top cyber officer says the federal government must work with private firms and U.S. allies to defend the nation against destructive cyber attacks, the American Forces Press Service reported Wednesday.
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Sasi Pillay, chief technology officer at NASA, has revealed a program that aims to develop technologies which includes work on 25 potential projects this year, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jason Miller
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