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 White House has issued a document that describes legal and policy frameworks which guide the U.S. military’s use of force and related national security measures such as detention, transfer and interrogation. National security departments and
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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that it would cost $122 million over the 2017 to 2021 period to implement a bill that would require the Department of Health and Human Services to expand federal health information technology programs. CBO said
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Marcel Lettre, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, has said the Defense Department pursues artificial intelligence, autonomy, automation, deep machine learning and human-machine teaming in efforts to drive cyber innovation, DoD News reported Saturday. Jim
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Mark Flannery, Securities and Exchange Commission chief economist and Division of Economic and Risk Analysis director, will step down from his current roles by the end of 2016 to serve as a finance professor
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Paula Yoon, director of the health informatics and surveillance division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said CDC currently explores technologies as part of an initiative to modernize aging public health surveillance
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William Conley, deputy director for electronic warfare at the Defense Department‘s acquisition office, has said the first DoD-wide electronic warfare strategy is finished and now headed to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter for his signature, Breaking Defense
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Congress has granted final authorization to the General Services Administration to spend nearly $136 million for the construction of two federal courthouses in Savannah, Georgia and Greenville, Mississippi. GSA said Thursday the two projects have
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The Senate has passed a bill that seeks to boost accountability and best practices in project and program management across the federal government. The Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015 was unanimously
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A multinational law enforcement team has launched efforts to dismantle a global criminal network of computer servers called Avalanche. Avalanche has hosted more than two dozen types of malware and facilitated numerous money
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary, Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary and Todd Ricketts as deputy commerce secretary. Mnuchin, Ross and Ricketts will help implement Trump’s America First economic plan
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