The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today that it secured $500 million for the first tranche of capabilities in its ‘Replicator’ initiative. […]
Morgan Adamski has been appointed to serve as the new executive director of U.S. Cyber Command – one of the 11 unified combatant commands of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) – according to a May 3 announcement. […]
Outdated and inadequate research and development (R&D) infrastructure across the Federal government is threatening U.S. leadership in R&D and impeding technology breakthroughs, a new report from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) says. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is creating a new CHIPS Manufacturing USA institute that will use digital twins approaches to greatly speed the development and validation of next-generation semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, assembly, and test processes. […]
The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on May 1 announced new private sector commitments to improve equity in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) ecosystem as part of a STEMM Equity and Excellence 2050 plan unveiled by the STEMM Opportunity Alliance (SOA). […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Department of Energy (DoE), today awarded 35 projects first-round access to the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot, which is a shared national infrastructure to support the AI research community. […]
Federal government technology leaders are leaning hard into upgrading their data infrastructure to create value from fast-growing data flows that are proving too much to handle for their older systems, new research from MeriTalk and Hitachi Vantara Federal finds. […]
UnitedHealth Group has yet to inform the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) which veterans were impacted by the February ransomware attack on the company’s Change Healthcare unit, according to the top lawmaker on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. […]
President Biden has nominated Tonya P. Wilkerson to serve as the under secretary of defense for intelligence and security, the White House announced on May 2. […]
The Pentagon is requesting $17.2 billion to fund science and technology (S&T) projects in fiscal year (FY) 2025, with most of that money designated for artificial intelligence (AI), space technology projects, and integrated sensing and cyber efforts, according to the Defense Department’s (DoD) technology chief. […]
Department of Transportation (DoT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg always says that safety is the DoT’s “North Star.” According to the department’s top cyber and IT official, safety is no longer possible without cybersecurity. […]
The IRS is taking claim for a range of technology-driven customer service improvements over the past year, and pointing to future improvements it hopes to achieve, in an update to its strategic operating plan published on May 2. […]
The failure of Congress to approve a timely budget for fiscal year (FY) 2024 – and the impact of further budget restrictions expected for FY2025 – has forced NASA to make some tough choices including letting go some of its valuable human talent, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told lawmakers on April 30. […]
The House Administration Committee unanimously passed two bills on April 30 that would modernize and digitize Congress’ work. […]
Lawmakers are making a last-minute plea to save the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) as it begins to wind down this week, leaving millions of Americans at risk of losing their subsidized internet service. […]
NASA’s spacecraft development programs lack mandatory cybersecurity controls for acquisition policies and standards, placing the technology at risk of cyberattacks, the Federal government’s top watchdog said this week. […]
As the Federal government looks to upskill its technology developer workforce to take advantage of new AI capabilities, government officials on Wednesday explained a lot of that work comes down to simply “translating” technical skills they already know and applying them to AI. […]
Agencies are drowning in cyber domain data, and when it comes to enabling rapid response, some of their biggest challenges include quality and accessibility of data, Federal defense and intelligence officials said this week. […]
In preparing to defend against threats from adversaries worldwide, the U.S. Army is relying on digital twinning techniques to ensure that service members “train like they fight,” Army Sergeant Major Lonnie Dunbar III said at ManTech’s TechShare 2024 conference in Washington on May 1. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) began its customer experience (CX) transformation journey about a decade ago, and a top agency official said on Wednesday that the VA has now reached a critical “acceleration point” in that process. […]
Three Federal chief information officers (CIO) said this week that the current surge of interest in AI technologies presents an opportunity for the Federal government to reform its hiring processes to meet demand for a larger AI workforce. […]
Former Commander of the United States European Command said today there are key elements the U.S. needs to safeguard national security: the awareness of a jellyfish, the speed and agility of a cheetah, and the willingness to hold up that boulder like Greek mythological figure Sisyphus. […]
The Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) rolled out a five-year strategy today that outlines its priorities in response to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) evolving threats and needs. […]
ManTech Chief Executive Officer Matt Tait explained today how the company is working across a wide range of Federal government agencies on projects to help them better leverage AI technologies, enterprise IT platforms, and zero trust cybersecurity strategies, among others. […]
Pro-Russia hacktivists are targeting and compromising small-scale operational technology (OT) systems in North American and European critical infrastructure sectors – including water and wastewater systems (WWS), dams, energy, and food and agriculture – according to a joint fact sheet released today by leading Federal cyber agencies. […]
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly told lawmakers on April 30 that the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2025 request for CISA will help fund agency activities in three key areas, including to fight malign Chinese cyber actors. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) released its Generative AI and Specialized Computing Infrastructure Acquisition Resource Guide on Monday to support the Federal acquisition community when purchasing generative AI solutions and related computing infrastructure. […]
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has called on Federal agencies to increase in-office work to at least 50 percent of employees’ hours, yet House Republicans say they’re still not receiving enough data regarding Federal telework policies. […]
President Biden today signed a new national security memorandum (NSM) that aims to better protect U.S. critical infrastructure sectors by enlisting U.S. intelligence agencies to ramp up their sharing of threat data across multiple levels of government and with private-sector critical infrastructure providers. […]
The Biden administration announced on Monday that it awarded a record-breaking $178.6 to small businesses in fiscal year (FY) 2023, representing 28.4 percent of all contracting dollars and an increase of about $16 billion from FY2022. […]