Mark Esper, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said in a memo that the Pentagon’s $740B budget request for fiscal year 2021 would advance weapons modernization,
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Bill Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will publish a new strategy to further advance sharing of cyber threat data with industry,
More The Department of Labor has updated its electronic labor certification issuance operations as part of a $3.5M information technology modernization effort, the Federal News Network reported Monday.
More The U.S. Air Force intends to hold an event that will launch four challenge activities under the AFWERX Space Challenge program.
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The U.S. Marine Corps plans to create organizations that will work to oversee network and command-and-control operations across the service branch this year, C4ISRnet reported Tuesday.
More The Department of Energy has teamed up with other federal entities to boost readiness against cyber threats targeting the U.S. energy sector. The Energy Sector Pathfinder initiative brings together the DOE with the departments of Defense
More The U.S. Army has launched an effort to use artificial intelligence to process imagery from manned and unmanned systems that will help warfighters identify incoming threats, FedScoop reported Monday.
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President Trump eyes to nominate Craig Edward Leen, director at the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, to serve as inspector general at the Office of Personnel Management.
More Thomas Modly, acting secretary of the U.S. Navy, told his service branch to focus on hypersonic weapons this year, USNI News reported Friday. The secretary issued a memo, titled SECNAV Vectors 9, that emphasizes
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The Office of Management and Budget has allowed agencies to decide whether they need to appoint a chief data officer due to varying data workloads, Federal Times reported Monday. Suzette Kent, the federal
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