Lawmakers on the House Oversight and Reform Committee continue applying pressure to Google and Apple, seeking—at a minimum—commitments from the tech giants to be more…
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The Veterans Affairs Department is getting ready to prepare the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas, to receive its electronic health record…
The push to create a post within the White House with budgetary and policy authority to coordinate cybersecurity across the government is alive and well.…
Though contact tracing may seem like a relatively new concept to the general public, the government at all levels has used it for decades. One…
The Defense Department incorrectly assumed it was ready to deal with the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic and officials found themselves scrambling to learn…
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers last week urged appropriators to increase the pay raise proposed for federal civilian employees next year to match that…
The Pentagon’s new 33-year-old head of research and engineering lacks a basic science degree but brings deep connections to Donald Trump and controversial Silicon Valley…
The U.S. airline industry has generally faced two obstacles in enticing more people to fly: fear and fares. Before the novel coronavirus, few feared flying…
Employees across the Homeland Security Department are sicker today with coronavirus infections than at any point during the months-long pandemic, and Congress is urging take…
Implementation of a rule barring federal agencies from entering into contracts with entities that use equipment from a selection of Chinese telecommunications and surveillance companies…
A top Pentagon investigative unit charged with examining crimes on and off the battlefield—and increasingly in cyberspace—intends to tap an existing, cloud-based solution to more…
The Customs and Border Protection agency has been collecting vehicle information at the border using license plate readers for years. Now, the agency will begin…
Remote work became the norm for many businesses across the United States in recent months, and most American workers hope it stays that way even…
A surge in the spread of the novel coronavirus has left many questioning decisions to reopen federal offices and military installations across the country, and…
A new Office of Joint Cyber Planning proposed in an amendment to the 2021 defense policy bill aims to help government and private actors respond…
Just weeks after leaving the General Services Administration, the former director of the Centers of Excellence program is returning to the agency to serve as…
NASA-funded researchers applied artificial intelligence to Facebook user location data captured as two fires wrecked northern California in 2018 and gained new insight into people’s…
The Department of Energy’s inspector general found that none of the agency’s science offices it reviewed had fully implemented guidance for securing peripheral devices with…
Just one day after Facebook announced it removed four disinformation networks, including one it says was linked to ex-Trump campaign official Roger Stone, experts say…
If some government agencies were taking small steps toward digital transformation prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus certainly accelerated movement…