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
Paul Cunningham, chief information security officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said VA wants to learn from the Department of Defense’s experience and challenges when it comes to the deployment of
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Ryan McCarthy, secretary of the U.S. Army and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the military branch is on its way to a “collision course” if it fails to get a topline growth of
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The Department of Defense (DoD) is preparing nine procurement programs for a pilot program to test a concept that seeks to speed up software development and deployment using a new congressional appropriations
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Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has asked Vice President Mike Pence to introduce a centralized federal website that would provide citizens with
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A senior official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said CISA did not receive reports of any malicious cyber activity seeking to disrupt the 2020 presidential primary elections in 14 states,
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Scott Rose, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, told Federal News Network in an interview posted Tuesday that NIST’s Zero Trust Architecture Special Publication 800-207 seeks to
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Sean Connelly, Trusted Internet Connection program manager, said his office plans to have the final guidance for the TIC 3.0 policy and the first two use cases ready by spring, Nextgov reported
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The Office of Management and Budget has issued a draft memorandum that would direct federal agencies to transition to Internet Protocol Version 6. A Federal Register notice published Monday says the draft memo
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NASA Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk said he expects the Space Launch System's initial flight to occur in mid-2021 or late 2021, SpaceNews reported Monday.
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The Department of Defense has begun a study to identify weaknesses in the industrial base for the development of hypersonic weapons, Defense News reported Monday. Mark Lewis, director of research and engineering for modernization
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