The Space Development Agency has appointed Col. Alexander Rasmussen, most recently chief of the Tracking Layer at SDA, as chief capability officer. Rasmussen announced his appointment in a LinkedIn post published Tuesday.
President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order to provide federal civilian personnel an average salary increase of 4.6 percent in January, Government Executive reported. The figure includes an average 0.5
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Congress has approved a bipartisan spending package that includes a bill that would prohibit the use of social media platform TikTok on government devices and a measure that would reform the fee
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Senator Rob Portman has asked the Office of Management and Budget for an update on the implementation of the Artificial Intelligence in Government Act, which was passed in 2020 and directs OMB to issue
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China’s imports of semiconductor-making machinery dropped 40 percent from November last year to $2.3 billion following the October release of U.S. restrictions on the export of advanced chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment
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Evelyn Wang, former Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been confirmed by the Senate to serve as director of the
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President Joe Biden has signed into law a bipartisan bill meant to help the federal government prevent data breaches enabled by quantum computers that could decrypt protected data. Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio,
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The Federal Communications Commission has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking as part of efforts to streamline its process for reviewing earth station and satellite applications. FCC said Wednesday it will solicit
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Randy Nixon, a career intelligence analyst, has assumed the role of director of open source enterprise at the CIA. Jennifer Ewbank, deputy director of CIA for digital innovation and a 2022 Wash100
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A U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected the White House’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal contractors in a 2-1 ruling, Reuters reported. The U.S. Appeals Court for the 5th Circuit upheld a
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The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the Department of Defense analyze its portfolio of piloted fixed-wing tactical aircraft platforms and establish a requirement for the routine submission of information from that
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