President Barack Obama has signed the USA Freedom Act as part of efforts to reform government surveillance and data collection activities and also restore three counterterrorism provisions of the Patriot Act, The Hill reported
MoreThe Government Accountability Office calls for the Defense Department to release guidance on the implementation of insider-threat programs and subsequent risk assessments and to evaluate current programs to identify capability gaps. GAO said
MoreOffice of Management and Budget official Lisa Danzig has detailed the agency’s initiatives in customer service for an effort to meet one of 15 Cross-Agency Priority goals for fiscal year 2015, DigitalGov reported Friday. Danzig,
MoreThe General Services Administration expects to issue contract modifications within the next month for the second phase of a $6 billion Department of Homeland Security continuous diagnostics and mitigation program, FCW reported
MoreThe Defense Department has selected 22 research programs focused on science and engineering as recipients of grants worth $149 million combined. Research efforts will receive government funding over a period of five years
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The Defense Department is seeking public comments on an interim rule governing indirect offset arrangements under DoD’s foreign military sales program. DoD said Tuesday in a Federal Register notice that it added
MoreU.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus believes budget appropriators should look at eliminating bureaucracy and overhead costs at the Defense Department rather than slashing needed defense equipment, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. Allyson
MoreThe House Appropriations Committee has passed a $578.6 billion defense budget bill that would fund most of the Pentagon’s key weapon programs in fiscal 2016, Defense News reported Tuesday. John Bennett writes
MoreThe National Security Agency plans to launch a Web portal that will support talent recruiting efforts for the intelligence community in a similar matter to USAJobs.gov, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Kathy Hutson, human resources
MoreLawrence Livermore National Laboratory held a ground-breaking ceremony Thursday to mark the start of construction of a $9.9 million facility for unclassified high-performance computing activities. The center is being built on the
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