The world faced a seemingly insurmountable technology challenge in the late 1990s that threatened to disrupt civilization. Addressing this required mobilizing a vast response effort,…
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The “factory” that pumps out AI tools for the Pentagon is about to get a new tool of its own, one that leaders of the…
Russian-sponsored Twitter trolls, who so aggressively exploited social media to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, didn’t stop when Donald Trump was elected president. Even…
The news coverage on COVID-19 is pervasive, persistent, and in my view as a professor of psychiatry, perilous. Sometimes it seems as though the pandemic…
Michael mina is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, where he studies the diagnostic testing of infectious diseases. He has watched, with disgust and disbelief, as…
A new study digs into 25 languages to explore the gender stereotypes in language that undermine efforts to support equality across science, technology, engineering, and…
More U.S. Border Patrol agents may have access to personal information collected from electronic devices searched at U.S. borders—even if it is immaterial to their…
Hand sanitizer remains in high usage and demand as the pandemic persists—but some forms of the gel germ-fighters have reportedly caused people’s hands to catch…
The difficulty many people have getting tested for SARS-CoV-2 and delays in receiving test results make early warning of possible COVID-19 infections all the more…
The road to recruiting top techies isn’t always an easy street for the federal government, as agencies at times can’t compete with pay and other…
While telework has long been an option at many federal agencies, fewer than half of federal workers were eligible to telework until March 2020. The…
COVID-19 has altered nearly every aspect of American life, including the workplace. For millions of Americans, the kitchen or the living room now doubles as…
Millions of Americans are unemployed and looking for work. Hiring continues, but there’s far more demand for jobs than supply. As scholars of human resources…
Defense Department Undersecretary for Acquisitions and Sustainment Ellen Lord on Thursday urged the contracting community and industry organizations to collect meticulous data related to how…
With Election Day now less than three months away, national security officials and outside experts are warning that the nation needs to be on guard…
As of October 17, federal vendors, contracting researchers and watchers and any other interested party, will no longer be able to run or access contract…
Generating millions of daily impressions across the 138 Twitter profiles it manages, the National Institutes of Health now needs health care-focused, enterprisewide social media monitoring…
An amendment that would codify the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, with some major new stipulations, is one of several areas where the next…
The 2020 election cycle poses many challenges to election security, voter integrity, voter confidence and voter safety. Renewed efforts from threat actors to disrupt the…
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s first few months on the job have been full of controversy. As the nation experiences the worst pandemic in a century, the…