The Senate on Monday voted 68-29 to confirm Scott Bessent as secretary of the Department of the Treasury. Reuters reported that Bessent will play a key role in shaping the Trump administration’s
Jimmy Hall, chief information officer at the State Department’s bureau of intelligence and research, said the INR bureau’s first strategy to transition its top-secret network to the cloud provides a roadmap for
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Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said DOD plans to deploy thousands of attritable, autonomous systems across multiple domains within the next 18 to
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Deborah Rosenblum, assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, said her top priority is ensuring that the Department of Defense takes a proactive, integrated approach to nuclear modernization
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Chris Bargery, most recently interim chief of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, has assumed the role of director of PFPA on a permanent basis. The Department of Defense said Thursday that Bargery’s
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Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate the Department of Defense’s basing process for the permanent headquarters of U.S. Space
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The Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Space Force have teamed up on a mission under the Tactically Responsive Space program that identifies commercial enterprises to help provide launch and on-orbit operations
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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., has introduced a bill that would direct the Office of Management and Budget to update the Federal Acquisition Regulation to require federal contractors to implement vulnerability disclosure policies,
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The First Responder Network Authority Board has cleared a budget package of $451 million to fund operations and pursue network improvements in fiscal year 2024. The package, called Resolution 115, includes $261
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NASA has begun soliciting information on potential industry sources that could provide spaceport operations, logistics, facilities management and other related support services at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
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Deborah Rosenblum, assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, said the Department of Defense should put an integrated focus on addressing emerging biological threats posed by near-peer competitors,
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