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
Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said technology manufacturers should make strong security a standard element of their tech offerings, particularly those that support U.S. critical infrastructure. Easterly,
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The Senate voted 54-42 Thursday to confirm Danny Werfel, most recently managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group, as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service within the Department of the Treasury.
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The General Services Administration disclosed that the System for Award Management website experienced two separate issues on Wednesday. The first involved an errant email message from SAM.gov to some entity administrators informing
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John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, on Thursday appeared before the House Armed Services Committee’s cyber, innovative technologies and information systems subpanel to
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Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, signed a multiyear strategy in February that establishes the principles for how DOD will develop a workforce that
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has started soliciting public comments on an initial draft report on the terminology in the field of adversarial machine learning and taxonomy of mitigations and
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The General Services Administration will share demand data through a new initiative to improve delivery efforts. GSA said Thursday demand data allows the agency to leverage transactional data through the identification of
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Nancy Sieger will step down from her role as chief information officer of the Internal Revenue Service on March 17 to assume the position of chief technology officer at the Department of
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Gen. Paul Nakasone, director of the National Security Agency and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said he has two concerns with the video-hosting service TikTok, namely, the app’s capability to collect data and
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Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, on Tuesday appeared before Senate Armed Services Committee members to discuss the priorities and plans of USCYBERCOM in 2023
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