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
Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen has said the Pentagon will replace Common Access Cards with multifactor authentication systems such as biometric technologies, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. Shaun Waterman writes Halvorsen told an audience at
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Mary Davie, assistant commissioner for integrated technology service at the General Services Administration, has replaced Kim Luke as information technology category manager of the Office of Management and Budget, FCW reported Tuesday. Mark Rockwell writes Davie took over
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California Army National Guard’s 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team has joined a U.S. Army Forces Command program that pairs National Guard and Reserve units with active BCTs for joint planning, interoperability and training exercises, the Army
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The Internal Revenue Service has revealed the winners of the agency’s “Tax Design Challenge” crowdsourcing competition that sought designs for a future online tax information system. The tax collection agency said Friday the three-week challenge received 48
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The Federal Aviation Administration is searching for a chief data officer who will oversee the management of information assets as well as a staff of chief scientific advisers for software integration, engineers and
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The House Science, Space and Technology Committee sent a letter to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg Thursday to raise concerns over the agency’s gathering of internal communications from its office of
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and United Arab Emirates Space Agency Chairman Khalifa Al Romaithi have signed an agreement for both countries to collaborate on aeronautics research as well as the exploration and use
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Brig. Gen. Thomas Geary, director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance strategy, plans, policy and force development at the U.S. Air Force, has been assigned to serve as assistant deputy chief of staff for ISR
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Russia has developed new Yu-74 hypersonic glide vehicles in the past few years, Sputnik News reported Saturday. Ostkraft.ru said Russia has tested an experimental Yu-74 glider aboard the intercontinental-range RS-18A ballistic missile system this year.
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work have discussed security issues and potential points of military cooperation with Peter Hultqvist and Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, respective defense ministers for Sweden and
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