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NSA launches new cybersecurity directorate to 'prevent and eradicate threats to national security systems and critical infrastructure'
The National Security Agency announced the creation of a new fifth domain-focused internal organization that will "work to prevent and eradicate threats to national security systems and critical infrastructure, with an initial focus on the defense industrial base and the improvement of our weapons’ security."
Winning 'The Shadow War'
Whether it's online, on land, underwater or in space, CNN national security correspondent Jim Sciutto's "The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America" offers ominous insights into how the United States' key adversaries are changing the dynamics of national security.
UK will pilot AI government procurement guidelines co-designed with World Economic Forum
The United Kingdom Government announced it will pilot newly-developed artificial intelligence procurement guidelines it co-designed with the World Economic Forum.
NSA challenges students to test their cyber skills in mock national security exercise
The National Security Agency will host a “cyber-challenge similar to those that regularly threaten national security,” open to students at any U.S. based academic institution. The exercise will run from September 20, 2019 to January 10, 2020.
Food Safety 2.0: FDA shares its vision for a digital, transparent food safety system
In an interview with the agency, the Food and Drug Administration Deputy Commissioner Frank Yiannas discussed its latest efforts to "leverage new and emerging technologies to prevent contamination and rapidly trace the origin of a tainted food to its source."
'The woeful state of government technology'
San Francisco Chief Digital Services Officer Carrie Bishop published an excellent commentary piece that touches on several issues we in the digital government industry don't talk much about, or at all.