House OKs $1.3T Appropriations Minibus for FY 2021
The House on Friday voted 217-197 to pass a package of six appropriations bills that would allocate $1.3 trillion in fiscal...
Rep. Mike Gallagher: DoD Should Have Greater Visibility of Contractors’ Networks
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) said the Department of Defense (DoD) should carry out threat hunting on defense contractors' private networks...
Dana Deasy on DoD’s Plans for Cloud-Based CVR Collaboration Tool, Telework
Dana Deasy, chief information officer at the Department of Defense (DoD) and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said conducting pilot programs that permit...
Report: Vaccine Developer Moderna Alerted to Suspected Reconnaissance Activities by China-Backed Hackers
Moderna, a Massachusetts-based biotech company working on a coronavirus vaccine, had been a target of hackers with links to the...
Mark Esper Announces Pentagon’s Plan for Troop Drawdown in Germany; Gen. John Hyten Quoted
Mark Esper, secretary of the Department of Defense (DoD) and 2020 Wash100 Award winner, announced that DoD intends to withdraw 11,900...
NASA, ESA Expect to Spend $7B on Mars Sample Return Campaign
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) expect the total cost of bringing back samples from Mars to Earth to...
Lawmakers Urge Senate Panel to Include Additional TMF Funding in Next COVID-19 Relief Package
Six lawmakers have called on the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee to allot an additional $1 billion for the Technology...
Senate’s COVID-19 Relief Bill Earmarks $53M for CISA
The Senate Appropriations Committee has proposed a COVID-19 pandemic relief package that would set aside $53 million to help the...
OFPP Chief Michael Wooten on Frictionless Acquisition
Michael Wooten, administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said his office is...
Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty Unveils Army Cyber Command’s Three-Phase Plan for Information Warfare
Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, head of Army Cyber Command, outlined a 10-year modernization effort to prepare the Army for information...