David McKeown, acting principal deputy chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said the Pentagon plans to take additional measures—including red teaming and network monitoring—to check the security of commercial cloud
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Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer for the Department of the Air Force and a 2023 Wash100 Award recipient, said the service branch is figuring out how to transition its software development platform
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The White House offered analyses of the potential economic impacts of several debt ceiling scenarios, including a brief default and a protracted default. An analysis by Moody’s shows that a short debt
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Craig Martell, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, warned that generative AI language models could be used as the “perfect tool” by
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Ajay Banga, vice chairman of global growth equity firm General Atlantic since December 2021, has received approval to serve as the 14th president of the World Bank for a five-year term beginning
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The Department of Defense is soliciting public comments on a proposed rule aimed to revise the eligibility criteria for the Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Program as part of efforts to encourage more
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has agreed to cooperate with the California Energy Commission to identify funding opportunities for green technology research and development under a signed memorandum of understanding. ARPA-E said
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The National Science Foundation is seeking industry input on developing a roadmap to guide investment decisions of its new technology directorate that aims to advance “use-inspired” research and development of critical and
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has completed test deployment of the solar array installed on its fourth Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R series. The GOES-U solar array, which was built
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Mark Munsell, deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Data and Digital Innovation Directorate since 2021, has been appointed director of the directorate, according to a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. In this
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