Chris Kraft, acting chief technology officer at the Department of Homeland Security, has been appointed as acting chief information officer at the U.S. Secret Service. The Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Homeland Security
Col. Eric Felt, director of the space vehicles directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), said the lab's next major project in space will focus on “nontraditional orbits,” including very low-Earth orbits and
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Federal officials said agencies should consider modifying their solicitations under the $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract to meet their telecommunications and other information technology requirements during the coronavirus pandemic, FedScoop reported
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The Department of Defense (DoD) is reshuffling its research-and-development priorities as it develops new roadmaps to advance future capabilities and Mark Lewis, director of research and engineering for modernization at DoD, said
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Christopher Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said he expects “every intelligence service” to home in and steal COVID-19-related data and research,
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Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) has asked federal agencies about their efforts to modernize their legacy information technology systems, Nextgov reported Thursday. Hassan sent letters to the departments of Treasury, Defense and Homeland Security
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Will Roper, assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the U.S. Air Force and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the service is bringing in novel technologies from small businesses through its AFVentures
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is looking for a chief statistician who will lead the development of plans for improved performance of federal statistical initiatives and activities and evaluation of
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Stephen Kitay, deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, said the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Space Acquisition Council is assessing initial results of a survey about the impacts of the COVID-19
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The Cyberspace Solarium Commission has released a white paper that offers cybersecurity lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and four new recommendations that are classified into two sections. The first section suggests the
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A new Congressional Budget Office report says the creation of a Space National Guard with approximately 1,500 personnel to support the U.S. Space Force would result in approximately $100 million in additional operations and
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