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The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has expanded the scope of its nuclear nonproliferation program to tackle biological threats worldwide, DoD News reported Thursday. Cheryl Pellerin writes DTRA's Cooperative Biological Engagement...

The U.S. General Services Administration has concluded a six-month study of the government-wide, cloud computing-focused Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to gather feedback from clients on the initiative. FedRAMP had a 340-percent increase in training...

Tony Scott The Office of Management and Budget has started to collect public comments on a draft policy that aims to facilitate reuse and sharing of federal custom software code across government...

Adam Szubin The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday voted 14-8 to approve the nomination of Adam Szubin as undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department, Bloomberg reported...

Some federal agencies have cited a 30-day "cybersecurity sprint" launched in June 2015 to justify noncompetitive information technology contracts they have awarded, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Aliya Sternstein writes the Office...

NASA has selected two proposals for low-Earth orbit instruments the agency plans to use in investigations of potential air pollutants and to track the development of tropical cyclones in oceans. The space agency...

U.S. and British troops have engaged in an experiment at Fort Benning to evaluate different technologies for potential use in warfighting efforts. The U.S. Army said Tuesday the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment involved...

Anne Rung U.S. Chief Acquisition Officer Anne Rung has called on federal agencies to establish laboratories that will help them adopt best practices for buying information technology products and services. She wrote in a blog article...

NASA has rescheduled the launch date of a study to measure Mars' deep interior to May 2018 after the agency canceled the initial spacecraft liftoff in December due to a vacuum leak...

ForeSee has issued a new report that shows public satisfaction with the government's digital services has reached a level higher than or comparable to private sector customer satisfaction. The 50th...