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Six software providers to the K-12 education sector have voluntarily pledged to incorporate Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency principles into their product development processes. Classlink, Clever, D2L, GG4L, Instructure and PowerSchool signed
Fifteen small businesses secured Department of Homeland Security grants worth nearly $15 million combined to carry out prototyping work in 10 topic areas, including an artificial intelligence-based distress alerting system, under the second phase of DHS’ Small Business Innovation Research
Three companies, one university and a nonprofit organization have won contracts from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to equip clothing with sensor systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is looking for a contractor to help the agency evaluate semiconductor facility concept plans submitted through the
HII Mission Technologies President Andy Green accepted his fifth Wash100 Award during an in-person plaque handover by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the prestigious accolade. Green, who also
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Giulia Siccardo, formerly a partner at McKinsey & Company, has been appointed director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains. She was among the nine DOE appointees
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Jared Bernstein, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, was approved by the Senate in a 50-49 vote Tuesday to be CEA chair, four months after he received a
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Dilawar Syed, special representative for commercial and business affairs at the State Department since February 2022, was confirmed by the Senate in a 54-42 vote Thursday to serve as deputy administrator at
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Bailey Bickley, chief strategy officer at the National Security Agency-run Cybersecurity Collaboration Center since September 2021, has transitioned to a new job supporting NSA’s efforts to help the defense industrial base guard
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Richard Revesz, a New York University law professor who founded the Institute for Policy Integrity, was confirmed by the Senate to serve as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, through
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The U.S. Marine Corps expects to begin deploying a new multichannel handheld communications system in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024. USMC awarded L3Harris Technologies a 10-year, $750 million contract in
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A $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill released by Senate Appropriations Committee leaders Tuesday morning calls for a 10 percent increase in fiscal year 2023 defense spending to $858 billion from fiscal 2022
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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will host a Proposers’ Day on Jan. 11 to explain the objectives and technical requirements of a new effort to facilitate artificial intelligence-based evidence analysis. IARPA
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The Senate confirmed Arati Prabhakar, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, as director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy in
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