A division of the Information Technology Industry Council has issued a document that details six recommendations to help state and local government agencies protect their digital infrastructure from cyber threats. The IT Alliance for
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Avi Bender, former chief technology officer for the U.S. Census Bureau, has been appointed to lead the Commerce Department‘s National Technical Information Service that distributes federal science and engineering information and data. Commerce said Monday Bender has
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The Defense Department has ended a hiring freeze on vacant civilian jobs at “fourth state†agencies after such agencies listed in a database system the positions they plan to eliminate in compliance with
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said he believes the U.S. should maintain security networks with its partner nations as part of efforts to respond to global threats, DoD News reported Monday. Jim Garamone writes Carter
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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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The Defense Department‘s inspector general has called on the chief of contracts at the Naval Oceanographic Office to train contracting staff and establish procedures designed to change how NAVOCEANO awards task orders through
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The Commerce Department’s National Technical Information Service has asked companies, nonprofit and research organizations to submit proposals for the development of platforms and services that aim to streamline federal data collection, interoperability
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Matt Cutts, a veteran engineer at Google, will join the U.S. Digital Service and offer his services to the Defense Digital Service at the Pentagon. Cutts said in a blog post published Friday
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The Defense Department has started to gather public input on a proposed common information system designed to identify, request and record actions related to personnel security. DoD said in a June 15 notice on
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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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