Though some fruits of quantum information science (think atomic clocks and CAT scan technology) are increasingly prevalent in Americans’ daily lives, there is still a…
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As NASA prepares to celebrate next month’s 50th anniversary of putting the first man on the moon, a watchdog has thrown some cold water on…
Acting Office of Personnel Management Director Margaret Weichert recently gave Congress an ultimatum: approve the Trump administration’s proposal to merge OPM with the General Services…
Artificial intelligence can help government agencies deliver better results, but there are underlying risks and ethical issues with its implementation that need to be resolved…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency delivered a new warning this week against an email phishing scam in which bad actors con users into opening…
As threats from foreign adversaries continue to advance across the technological landscape, America’s trailblazing approach to innovation will secure its position as a global leader…
When disaster strikes, we’ve come to rely on our phones. We scroll through Twitter for the latest update on a hurricane or flood, and mark…
Customs and Border Protection uses technology to scan faces, probe vehicles and keep a watchful eye on the border from the skies above. The agency—with…
The House this week moved closer to passing a sweeping collection of appropriations bills to fund federal agencies in fiscal 2020, the first such packages…
The Homeland Security Department is looking to upgrade the software it uses to analyze biometric data on hundreds of millions of people around the globe,…
The government needs to spur a “Manhattan Project-style investment” in America’s unmanned aircraft industry to combat the economic and national security threats posed by Chinese…
In a shock announcement on Tuesday, President Trump tweeted that he has named Army Secretary Mark Esper to be his new acting defense secretary, and…
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory—a federally-funded research center managed by the California Institute of Technology and best known for the Mars rover and other extraplanetary…
America’s National Strategic Computing Initiative’s Strategic Plan was produced through public and private collaboration and instituted in 2016, setting forth five objectives aiming to boost…
Technology’s evolving ubiquitousness is forcing federal agencies to strategically rethink their legacy systems to better serve their increasingly tech-savvy customers. The Agriculture Department is embarking on…
The number of manmade objects in orbit is set to triple in five years, a reflection of humanity’s growing dependence on ever-cheaper satellites for communication…
The need for effective cybersecurity in the federal government is more important now than ever before. Dr. Ron Ross, fellow at the National Institute of…
For decades, healthcare providers have doubled down on technology to improve the way they treat patients, but Shannon Sartin worries the industry’s expansive IT ecosystem…
Participants in the 2019 Internet of Things World Conference’s Hackathon used the Agriculture Department’s open datasets to help unearth real-world solutions around water management. The…
The Energy Department will outfit the fastest supercomputer ever built with a first-of-its-kind storage system capable of storing more than an exabyte of data. For…