The Defense Department has made enormous strides in IT innovation in the past two years. Initiatives such as the Air Force’s Kessel Run program are…
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We seem to have mastered the perfect recipe for chaos: a global ecological emergency, humanitarian crises and to top it off, a pandemic of epic…
A new dashboard called the COVID-19 Health Equity Dashboard shines a light on the disparities in how the coronavirus has affected different demographic groups. Although…
A small nugget in the National Defense Authorization Act under debate on the Senate floor could have big implications by requiring Defense Department solicitations to…
Shortly after canceling one IT contract vehicle for small businesses and raising the ceiling on another, the General Services Administration released the final request for…
As the footprint of the General Services Administration’s Centers of Excellence program grows, lawmakers in both chambers are looking to codify the program into law.…
Millions of American families are finding themselves in a jam, with their jobs requiring them to return to work on site and plans from their…
Two public health measures – testing, to identify those infected, and contact tracing, to identify those who may have encountered an infected person – have…
The pandemic is transforming the way we work, and it’s transforming government, too. Following the economic impact of state stay-at-home orders, your organization is likely…
Given that bars and restaurants in many parts of the United States are beginning to reopen, while the prospects for school remain hazy almost everywhere,…
As people navigate a masked world, they’ll need to focus more on the eyes and voice to connect with those around them, a psychologist argues.…
Hopes for a summertime reprieve from COVID-19 have been dashed as cases surged in June. As infections rise, so does the need for testing. Dr.…
The General Services Administration is canceling its small business IT governmentwide acquisition contract, with plans to reissue a new solicitation. Thursday, the agency announced the…
With a unanimous vote late Wednesday night, the House Armed Services Committee approved its annual National Defense Authorization Act, which doubles down on establishing public-private…
After close to three decades in government, John Wagner, the head of Customs and Border Protection’s biometrics program and deputy executive assistant commissioner of the…
Legislation promoting the creation of a national computing capability and cloud infrastructure specifically for artificial intelligence research garnered new praise—and possibly a new path to…
The leadership of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday announced that the panel would investigate whether Trump administration officials lied in congressional testimony about…
The House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy continued to press on Amazon over the company’s Ring doorbell camera technology as civil liberties, privacy and…
More than four million computers are now helping researchers fight the COVID-19 pandemic by using the freely available software Folding@home. When the crowdsourced supercomputing project…
Democrats in both chambers of Congress on Wednesday introduced legislation requiring greater oversight over proposed agency relocations by requiring making analyses of such proposals available…