The Senate on Tuesday voted 51-47 to confirm Thomas DiNanno, a national security leader, as the next under secretary of state for arms control and international security. According to a congressional notice,
Defense Innovation Board officials pointed to efforts to streamline the acquisition process, rapid technology deployment and promotion of competition as some of the key challenges to modernization, GovCIO Media & Research reported
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started soliciting information on potential vendors that could provide classified cyberspace operations and information operations, or COIO, research and development support services. The DARPA Information
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The U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General has recommended that the U.S. Navy delay the production phase of its MQ-25 Stingray drone program until relevant tests are completed or the program’s
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Chief Information Officer has asked for information regarding potential sources of support services for the department-wide implementation of zero trust architecture. To comply
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The Office of Federal Procurement Policy within the Office of Management and Budget has requested feedback on a proposed OMB circular aimed at expanding federal agencies’ access to relevant acquisition data. The circular
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NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration plan to release a solicitation for the procurement of two Solar Wind Plasma Sensor instruments, or SWiPS, as part of the Space Weather Next Lagrange
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President Joe Biden has expressed his intent to nominate W. Kimryn Rathmell, a physician-scientist oncologist and educator, to lead the National Cancer Institute. “The National Cancer Institute is central to the success of the
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A U.S. State Department advisory board has released a study outlining findings and recommendations to address the risks and benefits of using artificial intelligence, machine learning and related technologies in arms control,
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Sonny Hashmi, commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service and a previous Wash100 Award winner, said the agency intends to establish a repeatable acquisition environment to help federal agencies accelerate their procurement of
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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment on Tuesday achieved “first light” after a flight laser transceiver aboard the agency’s Psyche spacecraft transmitted and received near-infrared signals from Earth. The DSOC experiment sent
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