A bipartisan contingent of congressional leaders in the areas of cyber security and information technology on Thursday introduced a bill that would provide $28 billion to improve the cyber security and efficiency of state and local information technology (IT) systems. The State and Local IT ...

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s decision to pick Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate may shed light on the Democratic ticket’s defense policy priorities, with the senator previously indicating some support for reducing Pentagon spending levels and voting against the Senate’s ...

Two House Republicans on Tuesday introduced legislation that would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to help U.S. universities and non-profit research entities involved in research related to COVID-19 protect themselves from cyber security risks. Under the NIST ...

The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee used a Thursday nomination hearing to spotlight his opposition to House legislation that would made it harder for the Department of Energy to collaborate with the Pentagon on future nuclear-weapons budget requests — something, he believed, that � ...

The nominee to lead the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office said Tuesday the Navy does not currently have a “credible pathway” to meeting its 355-ship plan. John Whitley, the CAPE director nominee, told lawmakers during his Senate Armed Services Committee ...

Divesting legacy platforms to pay for modernization is the key challenge for the Department of the Air Force, according to Undersecretary of the Air Force-nominee Shon Monasco. “The biggest challenge I see for the department is this: if we are not able to divest legacy platforms, we will be ...