The Federal Communications Commission has appointed Farhan Khan, a technology leader and former Food and Drug Administration official, as chief information officer. As Khan steps into the FCC’s top IT role, federal
Information technology leaders from the Department of Health and Human Services, Small Business Administration and NASA have outlined their IT priorities for 2018, FedTech reported Friday. Christopher Wlaschin, chief information security officer
More Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has said he met with Ellen Lord, top acquisition chief at the Defense Department; and Lt. Gen. Charles Hooper, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency; to
More The U.S. Army plans to launch a process that seeks to facilitate the prototyping and acquisition of cyber defense platforms within 30 days through a consortium of vendors, Federal News Radio reported
More The U.S. Air Force has asked Northrop Grumman to cease development work on the air operations center modernization program “until further notice,†Bloomberg reported Friday. Anthony Capaccio writes the stop-work request took effect
More The White House has lifted the federal hiring freeze after the Office of Management and Budget issued new guidance that recommends measures for agencies on how to reduce the federal workforce’s size, restructure
More President Donald Trump intends to nominate Ellen Lord, president and CEO of Textron Systems, as undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the Defense Department, the White House announced Tuesday. If confirmed,
More President Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate Kari Bingen, a policy director for the House Armed Services Committee, as principal deputy defense undersecretary for intelligence at the Defense Department, The Hill
More Capt. Gisele Bonitz, executive officer of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, has been appointed commanding officer of SSS Pacific. She took over the post from Capt. Kurt Rothenhaus, who has
More The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has passed a bill that would limit the use of “lowest price, technically acceptableâ€Â methods by federal agencies in the procurement of technology platforms and services, Nextgov reported
More President Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate David Norquist, a partner at Alexandria, Virginia-based certified public accounting firm Kearney and Co., as defense undersecretary, comptroller. Trump revealed his plans to name
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