With COVID-19, a news story that may be 100% accurate can still unintentionally mislead readers about the greatest threats of the pandemic. The unintended outcome…
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Bipartisan legislation set to be introduced in the House Tuesday would make it easier for federal agencies to charge their government-provided electric vehicles, Rep. Ro…
The aim of NASA’s iconic Apollo program was as complex as it was straightforward: Land humans safely on the moon and return them back to…
The Defense Department is asking all employees to provide feedback on how it can improve diversity and inclusion among its mostly white, male workforce. The…
The Department of Homeland Security posted a proposed rule to the Federal Register Friday that would widen the scope of its biometric information collection program.…
The Federal Communications Commission estimates it would cost smaller telecommunications providers $1.6 billion to replace certain Chinese equipment in their systems and called for Congress…
Being a selfish jerk doesn’t get you ahead, according to new research. Researchers tracked disagreeable people from college or graduate school to where they landed…
The Pentagon awarded its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract Friday to Microsoft. The decision follows a 10-month legal battle initiated by Amazon Web…
The Homeland Security Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services want to collect more biometric information from immigrants, the agency announced Tuesday. The use of…
The IRS is using its relatively new, quickturn procurement vehicle—Pilot IRS—to support a governmentwide data collection effort in support of fixing pain points in the…
The Defense Department has selected five sites across several states to stage a Phase III clinical trial for one of the leading COVID-19 vaccine contenders. …
The federal government’s property manager has failed to stay informed on coronavirus outbreaks in its buildings or notify workers when it does find out about…
Two years after the Pentagon set out to spend billions on 10 breakthrough research and engineering efforts, defense contractors instead are putting most of their…
As we lurch towards Voting Day in November, it’s only natural to cast a nervous glance back at 2016, when Russia phished the presidential campaigns…
If governments are going to insist on using certification schemes—like the Defense Department’s new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program—in efforts to improve cybersecurity, they should…
Customs and Border Protection failed to provide complete and accurate privacy notices and conduct appropriate audits to ensure the agency’s facial recognition technology used for…
A team of federal data experts released a draft Data Ethics Framework with seven core tenets their colleagues need to keep in mind as agencies…
New augmented-reality microscopes, powered by AI, will change how doctors detect cancer, and finally begin to fulfill the promise of applying artificial intelligence to medical…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been the premier U.S. public health agency since its founding on July 1, 1946. The CDC is…
Federal agencies now have 180 days to publish and operationalize coordinated vulnerability disclosure policies aimed at encouraging ethical hackers to submit reports of weaknesses they…