Pete Hegseth, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2025 Wash100 awardee, has issued a memorandum directing the secretary of the Army to establish the Joint Interagency Task Force 401, or
Gen. David Berger, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, said the service branch needs industry’s help to develop simulators and other training systems that replicate the behavior of adversaries, Defense News reported
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The Department of Energy is seeking public insights on the energy sector industrial base and associated technologies to help inform DOE’s efforts in establishing resilient supply chains for the energy sector. DOE
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The Department of Defense is considering a reorganization of DOD and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), Defense Digital Service and the office of the chief data officer to help streamline processes
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An effort to end debate on the Senate version of the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization (NDAA) Act led to a 45-51 vote, falling short of the 60 votes needed to
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The Department of Defense’s Global Posture Review calls for the U.S. to strengthen cooperation with allies and partners to pursue initiatives in the Indo-Pacific to help advance regional stability and deter potential
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a program to investigate basic research questions that are key to the development of biomanufacturing capabilities in space. The Biomanufacturing: Survival, Utility and
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The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) saw the number of cloud security packages reused by agencies increase to 2,864 in fiscal year 2021, up from 1,971 in FY 2020. The
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a request for information on marketplace trends, policy, legislative, investment needs and supply chain risks of eight emerging technology areas. NIST is seeking
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The U.S. Army is enabling smalls groups of warfighters to practice more in multiple domains such as cyber and space areas through field experimentation, simulation and modeling, Federal News Network reported Tuesday.
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Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., has proposed a bipartisan bill that seeks to rebuild and modernize the Office of Personnel Management. Connolly’s office said Tuesday the Strengthening the Office of Personnel Management Act
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