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The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Homeland Security have partnered to facilitate a workshop on cybersecurity workforce development to address a requirement under Executive Order 13800. NIST...

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will award up to $50,000 in cash prizes under a new competition that will seek algorithms designed to predict changes in a chemical's infrared...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will award $5,000 to the winning technology developers of a two-day challenge that aims to develop concepts on how technologies affect decisions related to automated analysis,...

Reps. Jim Langevin (D-Rhode Island) and Rick Larsen (D-Washington) have called on the Energy Department to accelerate a research program that seeks to determine if some U.S. Navy vessels could convert...

The House of Representatives voted 386-41 Thursday to pass a bill that would re-authorize the Department of Homeland Security and direct changes to the department's national security initiatives, The Hill reported Thursday....

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will consolidate the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, or S/CCI, into the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs as part...

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched a prize competition for interested participants to develop machine learning algorithms and automated methods to detect and categorize satellite imagery points of interest....

Neil Alan Chilson Neil Alan Chilson, an attorney adviser at the Federal Trade Commission, has been appointed to serve as the agency's chief technologist on an acting basis. FTC said...

  Allison Brigati Allison Brigati, a former general counsel and director of strategic initiatives at the National Academy of Public Administration, has joined the General Services Administration as associate administrator...

Christopher Painter Christopher Painter, coordinator for cyber issues at the State Department, will step down at the end of the month after six years in the job, Nextgov reported Monday....