The Office of Personnel Management has fallen victim to a breach that U.S. authorities believe as the work of Chinese government-sponsored hackers, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Ellen Nakashima writes OPM discovered
MoreThe General Services Administrationâs digital services group and the Office of Government-wide Policy have started an online project to measure how U.S. government domains comply with best practices for federal websites. GSAâs 18F
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The 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
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 Department of Health and Human Services has launched a beta version of the HealthData.gov website in an effort to refresh the federal government’s health data repository. Damon Davis, HHS director for the health data initiative,
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Lawrence 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
MoreThe National Institute of Standards and Technology has released draft guidance for managing privacy risks in smart city technologies and connected devices, Nextgov reported Monday. Aliya Sternstein writes the guide is designed
MoreThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a program to study differences in manufacturing methods to help accelerate the development of three-dimensional printing technologies and other additively manufactured systems. “The Open Manufacturing
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A branch of the Department of Homeland Security has launched efforts to bolster its adoption of agile software development practices, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jason Miller writes the U.S. Citizenship and
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