A U.S. Air Force official has said the service branch has initiated efforts to develop a mathematical algorithm that aims to predict cyber operations, Defense Systems reported Thursday. Maj. Gen. VeraLinn “Dash” Jamieson, director of intelligence at the Air Combat Command, said her office has started to collaborate with nonprofit policy think …

David Mader, acting deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, has announced OMB’s plan to set up an administrative body that will work to craft strategies to encourage government agencies to use shared services, GovExec reported Thursday. Mader said the governance board will work with a General …

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has opened a hearing on the role of the Government Publishing Office and its potential impact on market competition, GovExec reported Wednesday. Charles Clark writes that Chaffetz noted the need to have a full and open competition for the …

U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh has said the military service is moving forward with efforts to reduce its end strength to about 450,000 active-duty troops over the next two fiscal years, Army Times reported Monday. Jen Judson writes McHugh added the Army has proposed a fiscal 2017 budget to the …

The Energy Department has invested $30 million in a new project that aims to help reduce heat loss in commercial and residential buildings. The program seeks to retrofit single-pane windows with transparent and insulating materials under the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, the department said Wednesday. “The ARPA-E SHIELD program will help …

Jerry McGinn, the Defense Department‘s principal deputy director for manufacturing and industrial base policy, believes DoD can better measure industry’s technology efforts against national security requirements with business intelligence tools, FCW reported Monday. Sean Lyngaas writes McGinn also recommended that the department adopt a predictive analytics approach to determine key …

Susan Rice, national security adviser to President Barack Obama, has outlined the economic, cyber and other items in the efforts to sustain bilateral relations between the U.S. and China. Rice said in prepared remarks Monday at George Washington University that the U.S. continues to urge China to adopt market reforms …

Norman Dong, commissioner of the Public Buildings Service at the General Services Administration, said data analytics technology has helped GSA manage energy consumption at federal buildings and real estate leases, GovExec reported Thursday. Charles Clark writes the agency implemented the analytics-based GSALink tool at 81 federal properties in an effort …

A study by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism says the presence of a surveillance banner on a hacked computer network reduces the chances of system intruders to input commands into the network by 8 percent. Nearly 50 percent of hackers that did not …

The U.S. has begun a two-week deployment for two General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drones and 70 personnel to Latvia as part of the European Reassurance Initiative, CNN reported Monday. Tal Kopan and Jim Sciutto write that U.S. efforts to reassure NATO allies in Eastern Europe of its support to secure the region include the …