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
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Angus King (I-Maine) have called on Defense Secretary and two-time Wash100 award winner Mark Esper to support the current administration’s plan to increase the size of the
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Lt. Gen. Lori Reynolds, deputy commandant for information at the U.S. Marine Corps, said she has four priorities in 2020 and the first focuses on the service’s network modernization effort, C4ISRNET reported
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The White House plans to send to Congress its proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 on Feb. 10, Defense News reported Monday.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the lower chamber will vote this week on a war powers resolution to restrict President Donald Trump’s military actions against Iran.
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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told Defense News in an interview published Friday that he will prioritize acquisition reform. “I’m a big believer in competition and commercial off-the-shelf technology. We
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NASA Administrator and a Wash100 award recipient Jim Bridenstine announced in December that the space agency’s GeoCarb Earth science hosted payload mission passed its confirmation review, SpaceNews reported Sunday.
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The Department of Defense has issued guidance for agencies with regard to the use of the middle-tier acquisition process, Federal News Network reported Friday.
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Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 award winner Mark Esper said approximately 4K U.S. troops have been placed on alert in response to recent actions by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Wall
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Jake Taylor, assistant director for quantum information science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, discussed several developments in the field of quantum computing in 2019 and one of those
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The Department of Homeland Security published in December a privacy impact assessment for the sharing of immigration-related data with the U.S. Census Bureau during the 2020 population count.
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