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The White House has rescinded an Obama administration policy that requires successor service contractors to offer jobs to their predecessors’ employees first prior to hiring others, Government Executive reported Friday.
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Officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency shared details of their efforts to address deepfakes and other disinformation campaigns ahead of
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Federal agency officials discussed at the American Council for Technology - Industry Advisory Council’s BOTs Forum in Washington the importance of change management and employees in the implementation of robotic process automation, Nextgov reported Thursday.
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The U.S. Air Force has submitted to the Department of Defense its acquisition strategy for the Space Command and Control program for review, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
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The Defense Innovation Board has recommended six ethical principles with regard to the use of artificial intelligence by the Department of Defense in combat and noncombat operations.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray said he expects threat actors from countries like Russia and China to cause possible interference in the U.S. presidential elections in 2020, The Hill reported Wednesday.
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Stacy Cummings, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, said the Department of Defense will introduce in January interim rules that would allow DoD to focus more on DevOps and Agile
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Margie Graves, federal deputy chief information officer, said a civilian counterpart to the Department of Defense’s proposed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification would require a different structure to meet civilian agencies’ wide range of missions,
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its final Big Data Interoperability Framework meant to support the development of software tools that can perform data analysis in any computing environment.
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The Government Accountability Office has established an innovation lab to advance the use of analytics capabilities and emerging technologies to help improve the work of auditors and other government personnel. GAO said Tuesday the
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