Markwayne Mullin on Tuesday was sworn in as the new Department of Homeland Security secretary during a ceremony at the White House. The Senate on Monday confirmed Mullin, previously a senator from
Mike McCord, undersecretary of defense comptroller and chief financial officer, said Congress and President Joe Biden have raised the Department of Defense’s funding by $100 billion in the last two years, but
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The battle laboratories of the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army worked with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on a joint experiment on a DARPA program designed to enable airspace
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The Office of Management and Budget has provided quarterly updates to the President’s Management Agenda and shared progress on the second PMA priority, which seeks to transform federal service delivery and customer
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Wendy Noble, former executive director of the National Security Agency, has been appointed deputy director of NSA. She succeeds George Barnes, who will retire by the end of September after serving as
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Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has asked Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Gen. James Dickinson, commander of U.S. Space Command, to provide documents related to
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The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has offered two recommendations to promote public engagement among federal research and development agencies, science and technology professionals and communities. The recommendations suggest
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The FBI and its partners in France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, the U.K. and the Netherlands dismantled a botnet infrastructure, dubbed Qakbot, that cybercriminals used to perform financial fraud, ransomware and various criminal
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Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office and a four-time Wash100 awardee, said a joint satellite launch mission of NRO and the U.S. Space Force will serve as a “watchdog” to
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Jimmy Hall, chief information officer at the State Department’s bureau of intelligence and research, said the INR bureau’s first strategy to transition its top-secret network to the cloud provides a roadmap for
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Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said DOD plans to deploy thousands of attritable, autonomous systems across multiple domains within the next 18 to
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