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Gene Dodaro Gene Dodaro, U.S. comptroller general and Government Accountability Office leader, has said GAO has requested a budget of $567.8 million for fiscal year 2017 to recruit new staff and update...

Sean McAfee, deputy director of the national cybersecurity assessment and technical services at the Department of Homeland Security, has been appointed to lead of the cyber operations division of DHS’ new...

The White House has enlisted an additional 15 states and cities to participate in the government's TechHire program in a move to fill thousands of technology jobs across the U.S.,...

Robert Work Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work has issued a memorandum that directs all components of the Defense Department to update their information systems and devices to the Microsoft-built Windows 10 Secure Host Baseline operating...

The U.S. Marine Corps has reached the final stage in the development of a new hardware technology that aims to deliver communications security and availability across multiple platforms. The Marine Corps Systems...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Internet Time Service received requests from 316 million unique Internet Protocol addresses on two out of 20 NIST servers to represent 8.5 percent of all Internet-connected devices. This...

The federal government's budget deficit for the first five months of fiscal 2016 was $352 billion, down $34 billion from the shortfall recorded for the same period in fiscal 2015, the...

Janet Wolfenbarger Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, the branch's first-ever female to become a four-star general, has been selected to serve on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. Defense...

Eighty percent of 103 state legislators and staffers that responded to a Governing Institute-led survey identified cybersecurity as a top priority for them but 80 percent are unsure if their...

Howard Shelanski, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has said the first of the 2016 biannual retrospective reviews of regulations that government agencies released have identified at...