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
The General Services Administration has unveiled a $947 million investment plan to support the construction and renovation works on federal courthouses in eight communities across the U.S. Denise Turner Roth, GSA administrator
More U.S. Army researchers have created a computer program designed to build three-dimensional avatars of uniformed personnel for use in the design of protective gear, equipment and vehicles, the Army reported April 4.
More Doug Loverro, deputy assistant secretary for space policy at the Defense Department, has said DoD has started to update its space policies in an effort to protect and make military satellites resilient
More A new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center says there were 6,013 reported cases of data breaches since 2005 across the government, financial services, healthcare and education sectors. The nonprofit organization collaborated
More The Department of Veterans Affairs has said that it has complied with a congressional mandate to make its electronic health records interoperable with the Defense Department’s data through the Joint Legacy Viewer
More Kim Rice, portfolio manager for the Defense Department mobility program office in the Defense Information Systems Agency, has said DISA should consider interoperability when it comes to the deployment of mobile devices that use the DOD Mobile
More Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the committee’s vice chairman, have unveiled the draft of a bill that would require technology companies to help law enforcement agencies
More Rep. James Bridenstine (R-Okla.) has unveiled a bill aimed to help the Defense Department establish a distributed system of small satellites and focus on the procurement of Earth observation data and other
More A brigade combat team under the U.S. Army’s 1st Cavalry Division will be the last unit to use the Enhanced Position Location Reporting System as the service branch moves to update its communications network,
More The Department of Homeland Security has licensed a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory-built cyber risk assessment platform for commercial use. DHS’ science and technology directorate handed the Physical and Cyber Risk Analysis Tool to New
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