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,
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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.
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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. 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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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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The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology convened Monday to discuss its focus on artificial intelligence and quantum computing, Nextgov reported Monday.
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The National Science Foundation has commissioned a partnership between two different organizations for the development of a new education-focused research data hub. The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and the American Educational
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The Naval Information Warfare Center hosted an event that sought to provide working opportunities and augment communication exchanges with industry.
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