NASA has issued a request for proposals in support of the Hypersonic Technology Project, or HTP, which seeks to develop airbreathing hypersonic technologies meant to enable reusable high-speed flight to address defense
Researchers from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Chief Technology Officer have learned that HHS constituent agencies do not have a standardized mechanism for sharing restricted and nonpublic data. The
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Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., sent a letter to National Intelligence Director Daniel Coats on Sept. 13 expressing concern over the possibility that “malicious foreign actors” could
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The Government Accountability Office noted in an audit report published Wednesday that from 2013 to 2017, the rate at which the Defense Department conducted competitions when procuring products or services went down
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Consumer credit reporting agency Equifax has acknowledged that its failure to identify and patch a critical software vulnerability, and correctly configure a crucial security system led, in part, to the massive 2017 data
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Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, has said the U.S. is currently in competition with adversarial nation states carrying out "strategic campaigns" in cyberspace, including the theft
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Ken Rogers, deputy chief information officer for business management and planning at the State Department, has said that his agency intends to begin consolidating its various cloud services contracts using enterprise licensing next
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, a 2018 Wash100 awardee, on Sept. 5 delivered a speech at George Washington University highlighting “a worldwide outbreak of cyberattacks and cyber vulnerabilities,” and describing cyberspace
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The Government Accountability Office said in a recent audit report that the U.S. Coast Guard's Heavy Polar Icebreaker Program runs the risk of "breaching its established baselines" because these were established before
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The Rand Corporation said in a recent report entitled "Is the USAF Flying Force Large Enough?" that the U.S. Air Force faces capacity limitations in responding to the potential demands and challenges
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The Government Accountability Office called out the Census Bureau in a recent audit report for not having addressed more than 3K security issues afflicting various systems crucial to the 2020 Census. The
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