Deborah Gracio, a 35-year Pacific Northwest National Laboratory veteran, will take on the role of PNNL director in October. Battelle said Thursday Gracio will succeed Steven Ashby, who announced his intent to
The Defense Business Board performed a 24-week study of the Department of Defense’s civilian workforce and found that talent management within DOD lags behind the commercial sector and that DOD fills short-term
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Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has released a report saying the federal government lacks sufficient information on ransomware attacks and the use of
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Gregory Pollock, principal director for Arctic and global resilience at the Department of Defense, said DOD is considering climate change through war games and scenario planning and is working with U.S. Indo-Pacific
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Brett Holmgren, assistant secretary for intelligence and research at the State Department, said the bureau of intelligence and analysis will establish a new office that will act as a “central point of
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The U.S. Army has decided to drop research work on the Strategic Long-Range Cannon program after Congress directed the service to cease funding the SLRC initiative in the fiscal 2022 appropriations measure,
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The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the National Nuclear Security Administration come up and document its process for assessing the performance of its research and development projects under the Advanced Manufacturing
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President Biden has nominated Milancy Harris, deputy assistant secretary for irregular warfare and counterterrorism at the Department of Defense, to serve as deputy undersecretary for security and intelligence at DOD. Harris was
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The Professional Services Council has called on the House Foreign Affairs Committee to provide the U.S. Agency for International Development with the needed funding and hiring flexibility to increase the number of
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The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has received from a cloud service provider the first system security plan in a machine-readable format called Open Security Controls Assessment Language. FedRAMP expects the
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The Government Accountability Office assessed the Department of Defense’s approximately 2,900 controlled unclassified information systems and found that as of January, DOD has reported the implementation of over 70 percent of four
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