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Virginia Senate fails to pass bill on military tuition program
Military families are urging lawmakers to reverse changes to a state tuition waiver program for spouses and children of fallen or disabled service members.
By Graham Moomaw, Virginia Mercury
The intelligence community’s questions on supply chain security
Here's what the Office of the Director of National Intelligence general counsel said the IC is wrestling with.
By Andrew Eversden
DoD’s top IT official talks AI, JEDI, and how to win over the commercial tech community
In an exclusive interview in December, the Pentagon Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy shared his priorities and strategy reshaping defense technology.
By Jill Aitoro
How one fellowship is engineering a more educated workforce
Federal employees looking to up their game in systems engineering have an opportunity to get classroom and practical experience in the field.
By Jessie Bur
The Pentagon CIO office’s plan for better software
The Department of Defense is working to improve update agility, but it's enterprise cloud - an integral piece of a complicated effort - could be delayed again.
By Andrew Eversden
Amazon will seek to halt work on DoD’s JEDI cloud
Microsoft and the Department of Defense are set to start task orders Feb. 11. Amazon wants to prevent that.
By Andrew Eversden
What makes the Education Department’s modernization efforts successful
Department of Education CIO Jason Gray sat down with Federal Times to discuss his agency's successes.
By Andrew Eversden
Data front and center at the NSF in 2020
Dorothy Aronson, the CIO of the National Science Foundation and workforce co-lead on the CIO Council, wants to better define roles for data scientists.
By Andrew Eversden
Here are the data actions agencies must take in 2020
The long-awaited Federal Data Strategy year-one action plan is finally here. Here's what Office of Management and Budget officials added to the final version.
By Andrew Eversden
How emerging tech can reshape the workforce
Gary Washington, the chief information officer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sat down with Federal Times to talk about agency culture, focusing on cybersecurity and learning to use emerging technology to serve business processes.
By Andrew Eversden
Inside the NSA’s plan to lure cyber talent
The defensive and espionage missions undertaken by the National Security Agency require efforts from some of the top tech operators in the world, and these operators must come from somewhere. Enter the NSA's partner institutions — designated Centers of Academic Excellence.
By Andrew Eversden