President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the federal government to launch an initiative to drive the adoption of small modular nuclear reactor technology across national defense and space missions. The EO is aimed at revitalizing the country’s nuclear energy sector and space exploration initiatives while developing alternativ...
Letitia “Tish” Long, chairwoman of the board of directors for Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), was presented her second Wash100 Award by the CEO of Executive Mosaic Jim Garrettson on Thursday. Executive Mosaic congratulates INSA and Letitia Long for her 2020 Wash100 Award. For this year’s honor, Long has continued her effo...
President Donald Trump signed Thursday an executive order to guide agencies on the adoption of artificial intelligence to facilitate the delivery of services to U.S. citizens and promote public trust in AI. The executive order establishes nine common principles for the design, development, use and acquisition of AI: lawful; accurate, reliable and ef...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his intent to appoint Basil Parker, chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management, as administrator of the office of electronic government at the Office of Management and Budget....
GovConWire Events will host its 2020 Business Development (BD) Trends Forum, featuring Stephanie Shutt with the General Services Administration (GSA), as the keynote speaker on Thursday, August 27th. Click here to register for the 2020 BD Trends Forum on Aug. 27th. ...
GovConWire Events will host its 2020 Business Development (BD) Trends Forum, featuring Stephanie Shutt with the General Services Administration (GSA) and Frank Kelley of Defense Acquisition University (DAU), on Thursday, August 27th.The speakers will dive into current BD trends, tips for securing contracts and Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 federal budget pr...
Federal Chief Information Security Officer Grant Schneider will step down from his position by the end of this month after a nearly 27-year government career and move to Washington, D.C.-based law firm Venable as senior director of cybersecurity services, Federal News Network reported Tuesday....
Lesley Field, deputy administrator for federal procurement policy in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), will serve on the expert panel during GovConWire’s 2020 Business Development (BD) Trends Forum on August 27th.Click here to register for the 2020 BD Trends Forum on Aug. 27th. ...
The White House plans to complete this week regulations that would ban U.S. government agencies from procuring goods and services from contractors that use telecommunications equipment and other products from five China-based companies, Reuters reported Thursday....
The CEOs of eight defense contractors wrote separate letters to the White House and the Department of Defense saying that the money sourced from DoD’s budget to help companies retain highly skilled employees during the COVID-19 pandemic should be replaced with new funds to prevent military modernization programs from being jeopardized, Reuters rep...
