Civilian

The Department of the Navy has unveiled a new strategy designed to guide the development of DON's civilian workforce over the next 10 years. DON said Thursday that it needs the dynamic strategy to tackle workforce challenges amid changes caused by technological and geopolitical factors.

Research teams from the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University and Army Research Laboratory have partnered to study the human skull to support the development of advanced helmets, Nextgov reported Friday.

The Government Accountability Office has found that more than half of the 24 agencies it surveyed did not always use the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program when approving cloud services for government use.

The Department of Energy intends to award $5M in funds to help universities and nonprofit research organizations develop computational tools and software applications that will work to study genomics and biology research data.

The Office of Management and Budget plans to administer a pilot program to repolish the data science skills of federal employees, Federal News Network reported Monday. The future program would also aim to help federal officers understand the importance of data science to achieve an agency's goals.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled an effort that will help address challenges in the development of optical microsystems.

The Office of Management and Budget is mandating federal civilian agencies to submit their annual progress reports on Federal Information Security Management Act compliance by March 2, 2020.

Maxar Technologies has commended the Senate Commerce Committee’s passage of the 2019 NASA Authorization Act that was introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Maxar announced on Thursday.

Grant Schneider, federal chief information security officer, said the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Council will prioritize the development of guidance in 2020 to help agencies address security threats to the supply chain, Nextgov reported Tuesday.

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy will be allocating $43M to an effort that aims to improve power stations through the integration of technology that will decrease carbon emissions.