GAO: Agencies Must Fully Implement FedRAMP Cloud Authorization Procedures
The Government Accountability Office has found that more than half of the 24 agencies it surveyed did not always use ...
DHS Announces Winners of Opioid Detection Challenge
The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has unveiled the champion of a global $1.55M competition on opioid detection technology. IDSS, ...
NIST Unveils Biometric Research Data
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released facial photographs, fingerprints, iris scans and other biometric research data designed ...
US Reaches Phase One Trade Deal With China
China has agreed to structural changes across technology transfer, intellectual property, financial services, foreign exchange and currency and agriculture areas ...
Strategic Capabilities Office Leads Ballistic Missile Test
The Strategic Capabilities Office and the 30th Space Wing demonstrated a prototype ground-launched ballistic missile during a flight test at ...
VA Looks to Create Gov’t-Wide Customer Experience Institute
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ office for customer service improvement plans to launch a Customer Experience Institute that will work ...
New Earth Observation Plan Encourages National Collaboration; Lawrence Friedl Quoted
An office within the White House has updated a strategy on Earth observation data with efforts to better collaborate with industry ...
Senate Committee OKs Public Safety Bill for T-Band Spectrum Comms
The Senate Commerce Committee passed a bill that will enable firefighters, police officers and emergency personnel to communicate through the ...
Suzette Kent: Gov’t IT Modernization to Increase in 2020
Suzette Kent, federal chief information officer and a 2019 Wash100 winner, says that the government anticipates an increase in information ...
Bipartisan Bill Would Grant CISA Supoena Authority for Critical Infrastructure; Sen Ron Johnson Quoted
Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., have introduced a bill that would authorize the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...