The Treasury Department‘s Bureau of the Fiscal Service has launched a new website that features data visualization tools meant to provide information on U.S. government spending, Nextgov reported Thursday. Fiscal Service built the
The U.S. and the European Union have amended their data transfer pact that seeks to heighten regulation of cross-border personal information transfers by companies, Reuters reported Friday. Julia Fioretti writes the new version of the
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The General Services Administration‘s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program team has unveiled a set of high baseline requirements for agencies to protect unclassified sensitive government data stored in cloud environments. FedRAMP said Friday three authorized cloud offerings from Amazon
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Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles Moore Jr. — Joint Staff deputy director of global operations — has said the Defense Department built its Cyber Mission Force to challenge adversaries’ cyberspace freedom and defend military information networks against threats,
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Air Force Lt. Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel has said transregional challenges in the global security environment require the military to become more agile and the government to use all components of national power,
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Gen. Daniel Allyn, U.S. Army vice chief of staff, has said the service branch plans to sustain the 11th Combat Aviation Brigade in South Korea and build four Apache battalions under its 2017 budget plan,
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has met with Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman to discuss security matters in the Middle East and other areas of defense cooperation, DoD Buzz reported Monday. Richard Sisk writes Carter
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The General Services Administration has partnered with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas to study “high-performance landscapes” that can be applied on federal properties. Sylvia Hernandez, GSA regional administrator for the Greater Southwest
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched its Data-Driven Discovery of Models program that aims to automate aspects of data science to help non-experts construct their own empirical models. DARPA said Friday D3M looks
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U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.N. Peacekeeping Force will likely assume a bigger role in missions to counter transregional conflicts, DoD News said
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University of Miami physicist Neil Johnson has led a team of researchers to develop a mathematical model that works to identify patterns in the online activity of Islamic State sympathizers in efforts to predict
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