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
Tony Braswell, director of contracting at Hanscom Air Force Base, said the service branch is launching a strategic plan to transform its acquisition culture, the Air Force reported Friday. “So we’re changing
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The White House’s National Science and Technology Council released an update to the 2016 strategic plan for artificial intelligence research and development in support of the American AI Initiative that was launched through an executive
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Some government and industry experts said strengthening partnerships with other countries is key to advancing quantum information science, Nextgov reported Thursday.
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The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration plans to deploy updated baggage screening systems and credential authentication technologies to speed up security checks at airport checkpoints, FCW reported Thursday.
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Christopher Krebs, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said CISA is developing the role of artificial intelligence in election security, Fifth Domain reported Wednesday. Krebs, a 2019 Wash100 winner,
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The General Services Administration’s 18F and DigitalGov teams developed and launched a website to help federal agencies comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act and navigate the PRA clearance process, FedScoop reported Wednesday.
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The Federal CIO Council released a new playbook designed to help agency portfolio managers facilitate application rationalization under the Cloud Smart program in support of their information technology modernization efforts.
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The Public Build Reform Board conducted its first meeting to try to identify at least five excess federal civilian properties to sell within six months to generate savings, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. The
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The Defense Information Systems Agency’s contracting arm will reduce the fee it charges to clients for enterprise procurement services by start of fiscal year 2020. DISA said Monday that the Defense Information Technology Contracting
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Charles Phalen, director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, said NBIB reduced the security clearance backlog to 424,000, down from 725,000 in April 2018, Federal News Network reported Monday. The figure represents a
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