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
The Modernizing Government Technology Act passed in 2017 requires federal agencies to come up with internal working capital funds to support information technology modernization initiatives and administration officials said agencies are having
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The Trump administration will issue three policy directives as part of efforts to modernize the security clearance process and begin the next phase of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 initiative, Federal News Network reported
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The White House National Science and Technology Council released its 2016–2019 progress report on the advancement of research-and-development work on artificial intelligence. The report documents the initiatives agencies have launched in the
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, have asked the Department of Homeland
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Grant Schneider, federal chief information security officer, said the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Council will prioritize the development of guidance in 2020 to help agencies address security threats to the supply chain, Nextgov reported
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The House on Tuesday voted 231-192 to pass a continuing resolution to fund government operations through Dec. 20 in order to prevent a government shutdown, Defense News reported Wednesday.
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Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said FCC plans to put the 280 megahertz of the C-band spectrum up for public auction to support 5G connectivity.
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Amy Hess, executive assistant director of the FBI’s criminal, cyber, response and services branch, said the bureau has combined traditional techniques with new technological applications to speed up investigations and address today’s
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Scott Bowman, acting deputy chief information officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told FedTech in an interview published Monday about the technologies FEMA employs to facilitate communications during disaster response efforts.
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The Department of Defense announced the completion of its fiscal year 2019 financial audit and expects seven component agencies to receive “clean” or unmodified opinions.
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