The National Science Foundation has awarded a combined $4.8 million to 19 university-led research groups to conduct scientific research or workshops on Earth’s ecosystems. NSF said Thursday the teams of scientists and
MoreThe Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Homeland Security have created a timeline of the cyber attack that exposed data on approximately 22 million former and current federal employees, FCW
MoreSen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is pushing for an amendment to require the adoption of geofencing technology in unmanned aerial vehicles as part of a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill. Schumer said Wednesday
MoreThe Federal Communications Commission has scheduled an update to the agencyâs legacy information technology systems for over the Labor Day weekend. FCC CIO David Bray wrote in a blog post posted Thursday the IT
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U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil on Wednesday released a memorandum to explain how the federal government uses data to address transparency, security and innovation issues for the general public benefit. “The
MoreThe Department of the Navy and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power have kicked off construction work on a 210-megawatt direct current solar facility in Arizona to power 14 Navy and Marine Corps installations. Sempra
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White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel believes that cyber defenses at many government agencies still have room for improvement amid an increase in awareness of potential threats, FierceGovernmentIT reported Thursday. Dibya Sarkar writes that Daniel
MoreMark Peters, formerly associate director of the Argonne National Laboratory’s energy and global security directorate, will join Idaho National Laboratory as director on Oct. 1. INL said Thursday Peters will succeed John Grossenbacher,
MoreA new Socrata-commissioned survey says 75 percent of technology executives at government agencies consider themselves open to adoption of cloud-based software applications. EMC Research polled at least 500 technology leaders at local,
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Several federal agencies have partnered with state and local law enforcement agencies to build technologies for monitoring unauthorized commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles, Reuters reported Thursday. David Morgan writes the Federal
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