Scott Bowman, acting deputy chief information officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told FedTech in an interview published Monday about the technologies FEMA employs to facilitate communications during disaster response efforts.
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The General Services Administration is slated to begin its search for a new executive director for its 18F digital services agency next week, Nextgov reported Friday.
More 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.
More The Government Accountability Office has found that the Department of Veterans Affairs still faces multiple cybersecurity challenges in the course of modernization. VA must implement security controls to protect sensitive information, identify cybersecurity workforce
More The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to invest in biotechnology research that applies genetic engineering to health monitoring. DARPA said Friday its Detect It with Gene Editing Technologies or DIGET program aims to
More The Department of the Navy will be naming two warships after the late Sen. Thad Cochran and the late Sen. Richard G. Lugar, both of whom are Navy veterans.
More Maj. Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of the U.S. Space Command’s Combined Force Space Component Command, said that plans are in place for the Department of Commerce to oversee space traffic management, Space News reported
More Lt. Gen. Eric Smith, commander of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, said that artificial intelligence efforts should focus on collating large amounts of data to be used at the tactical-edge level,
More Francisco Salguero has been appointed to serve as chief information officer at the Federal Communications Commission, effective December, Fedscoop reported Friday.
More The Department of Defense announced the completion of its fiscal year 2019 financial audit and expects seven component agencies to receive “clean” or unmodified opinions.
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