NASA will conduct an independent review on the status of the James Webb Space Telescope program ahead of a planned launch in the first half of 2019, Space News reported Thursday. The
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The Department of Homeland Security‘s cyber assessment team will extend its cyber risk assessment activities beyond information technology systems to include national critical infrastructure and operational technology, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday.
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The U.S. Navy plans to field in February a “virtual twin†of the Aegis Combat System as part of a pilot program that aims to accelerate the deployment of upgrades to the
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Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications at the Department of Homeland Security, has said she believes federal agencies should factor risks into information technology governance and procurement efforts, FedTech Magazine reported Tuesday.
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The U.S. Army has introduced a pilot program that aims to hire and train technology professionals from the private sector as lieutenants for cyber operations in a bid to increase the number
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Some election experts have urged Congress to give states additional funds to secure voting machines against state-sponsored hackers, USA Today reported. Matthew Blaze, an associate professor of computer and information science at the
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The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has created a playbook meant to help agencies navigate through the government’s cloud authorization process, GCN Magazine reported Monday. The FedRAMP Agency Authorization Playbook describes
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NASA has fired up a set of Aerojet Rocketdyne-built spacecraft thrusters onboard the space agency’s farthest spacecraft which have remained dormant for approximately 37 years. The space agency said Saturday the four
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The Energy Department has awarded contracts worth a combined $25 million for eight organizations to acquire combined heat and power technologies that can support energy generation and delivery. DOE said Tuesday the CHP
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The U.S. government has wrapped up the first two phases of a three-part effort to remove Kaspersky Lab‘s anti-virus software from federal agencies’ networks, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Agencies scanned their systems for Kaspersky’s
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