The Federal Communications Commission has appointed Farhan Khan, a technology leader and former Food and Drug Administration official, as chief information officer. As Khan steps into the FCC’s top IT role, federal
Tiffany Hixson, assistant commissioner of the office of professional services and human capital categories at the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, said GSA is set to release in the next few
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Col. Jennifer Krolikowski, chief information officer of U.S. Space Systems Command, said transforming the information technology organization within SSC means establishing data fabric as part of efforts to leverage data and facilitating
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Cherissa Tamayori, director of acquisition at the Defense Innovation Unit, said the Department of Defense must adopt commercial technology systems and culture and make changes to the requirements, budgeting and acquisition aspects
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Oliver Wise, chief data officer at the Department of Commerce, said the Commerce Data Governance Board and the office of the CDO devised a fiscal year 2023 action plan, which comes with
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Gregg Sears, a defense acquisition professional and program management leader, has been appointed deputy director of air warfare at the U.S. Navy, he announced in a LinkedIn post. He brings to the
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., has proposed a bill that would invest in the U.S. military’s technology talent and enable the Department of Defense to build on the Cyber Workforce Framework. The introduced
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued a national strategy outlining the current administration’s vision to maintain U.S. leadership in low Earth orbit through research and development efforts.
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Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and a Wash100 awardee, has detailed new U.S. initiatives to fight the misuse of technology. During a recent summit in Washington, D.C., Mayorkas stated that
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NASA has established its new Moon to Mars Program Office to support and conduct human exploration work on the lunar surface and prepare for future crewed missions to Mars. Veteran space professional Amit
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Laura Taylor-Kale, a fellow for innovation and economic competitiveness at the Council on Foreign Relations, has received Senate confirmation to serve as assistant secretary for industrial base policy at the Department of Defense. According
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