Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., has introduced a bill that would require the Department of Defense to report to Congress on risk assessments of the use of artificial intelligence in defense systems as
An exascale supercomputer called Frontier is now being installed and integrated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility in Tennessee and some researchers are expected to gain access to the machine
MoreJohn Benner, executive officer for weapon programs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, will assume the role of associate laboratory director for weapons production on Jan. 3. He will succeed Dave Eyler, who
MoreThe Government Accountability Office looked at how terrorist groups and transnational criminal organizations launder money, engage in human trafficking and move illegal drugs and found that these groups perform phony trade deals,
MoreThe State Department has announced that the three-year rolling average of foreign military sales (FMS) of defense weapons implemented between fiscal years 2019 and 2021 by the Defense Security Cooperation (DCS) Agency
MoreAlexander Macgillivray, a technology law and policy expert, has rejoined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to serve as principal deputy U.S. chief technology officer. He said in
MorePresident Biden signed an executive order that will give federal civilian employees a pay increase of 2.2 percent and an additional locality pay adjustment of 0.5 percent, effective Jan. 1, Federal News
MoreThe Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has released a memorandum directing agencies to implement the new occupational series job classification for data science in compliance with the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act
MoreThe Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Department of Defense (DOD) awarded approximately $8.4 billion in air support contracts between fiscal years 2015 and 2021 in support of various training activities.
MoreSpace Systems Command, led by Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, is set for another reorganization that has been approved by Air Force Secretary and three-time Wash100 Award recipient Frank Kendall, Breaking Defense reported Monday.
MoreThe Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is pursuing a multiyear research program that seeks to develop next-generation technologies for data storage using synthetic DNA. The Molecular Information Storage (MIST) program intends
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