Renee Johnson, a more than 25-year civil service veteran, has been elected as national president of the Federal Managers Association. “I will stand strong on behalf of federal managers and make sure the
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Terry Halvorsen, chief information officer at the Defense Department, has said DoD will work to update its networks, improve its cybersecurity posture and attract and retain information technology professionals in 2017, DoD News
More Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, chief of the F-35 joint program office, has said the Air Force, Marine Corps and the Navy have decided to extend the service life of the Joint Strike
More Denise Turner Roth, head of the General Services Administration, has launched an effort to make it easier for small businesses to access data and tools related to the federal contracting process. “We must ensure
More The Government Accountability Office has identified several vulnerabilities in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ technical controls for systems that support the federal health insurance marketplace. GAO said Wednesday it found insufficient
More Lt. Gen. Robert Ferrell, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, estimates it will take more than one year for the military service to update its legacy computers to Microsoft‘s Windows 10 operating
More The Department of Homeland Security has proposed to restructure its National Protection and Programs Directorate into a new organization that will focus on addressing threats to U.S. cyber and physical systems, according to a Lawfare blog
More The National Weather Service has opened a new weather service equipment repair facility in Missouri that is leased by the General Services Administration. The 222,000 square-foot building in Grandview will house a
More Defense Department officials have announced the fifteen university faculty scientists and engineers selected in the 2016 class of National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows. Among the list are members of National Academies, five
More A federal grand jury has indicted seven Iranian people whom government investigators believe have orchestrated extensive denial-of-service attacks on U.S. financial services institutions between December 2012 and September 2013. The Justice Department said Thursday computer hacking
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