Adm. Michael Rogers, head of the U.S. Cyber Command, has formed a task force to create digital weapons meant to disrupt the Islamic State militant organization’s online activities, the Washington Post reported Friday.
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The U.S. Army Cyber Command has been designated by the Department of the Army as an Army service component command. ARCYBER will work in support of the U.S. Cyber Command as well as
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The Government Accountability Office has said the departments of Defense and Veteran Affairs have not defined outcome-oriented goals and metrics to support interoperability between both entities’ electronic health records systems. GAO said Wednesday DoD and the VA
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NASA will proceed to the system assembly, integration, test and launch stage for a mission to the sun scheduled to launch in the summer of 2018. Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory said Thursday the space agency
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House lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill that would authorize federal agencies to create their own working capital funds to update their information technology systems, Nextgov reported Thursday. Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas)
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold on Aug. 4 the final event of the Cyber Grand Challenge in Las Vegas where seven computer programs will compete against each other to detect and
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The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program has teamed up with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create a tool designed to help organizations evaluate their cybersecurity risk management initiatives. The Baldrige
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The Energy Department will invest up to $15 million in cybersecurity programs of two industry groups that aim to help protect the country’s electric grid infrastructure from cyber and physical attacks. DOE said Tuesday the funds will support
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A group of NASA scientists has developed a carbon nanotube-based mirror for a telescope that can be integrated with miniaturized satellites designed for use in Earth observations, scientific investigations and deep space
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Casey Coleman, group vice president of Unisys‘ federal civilian business, has said she observed many agencies prioritizing digital government initiatives since the White House issued a road map for digital services delivery in May 2012. She wrote in
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