The Food and Drug Administration is asking for a $6.5 billion fiscal year 2022 budget from Congress. The request is $477 million higher than the agency’s enacted funding in FY2021 and prioritizes increased investments in critical public health infrastructure, core food safety and medical product safety programs, GovernmentCIO Media & Research reported. Acting FDA Commissioner […]
Maj. Gen. Matthew Glavy is the Biden administration’s pick for deputy commandant for information of the Marine Corps. If confirmed, Glavy will replace Lt. Gen. Loretta Reynolds, who has held the role since July 2018. The deputy commandant post, first introduced in 2017, encompasses responsibilities similar to that of chief information officers in other military […]
Tech consulting firm Customer Value Partners has received a spot on the National Institutes of Health’s multiple-award Risk Management Framework blanket purchase agreement. Under the terms of the five-year, $86 million BPA, the Virginia-based company will provide cybersecurity risk management and authority to operate services across the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers. Services may be […]
NASA wants to obtain proposals for two upcoming private astronaut missions to the International Space Station. The space agency plans to host the first mission between the fall of 2022 and mid-2023 and the second between mid-2023 and the end of that year. Both missions may go on for up to 14 days, with the […]
The U.S. Space Command is seeking an additional $67 million as part of its fiscal year 2022 unfunded priority list to fully meet operational needs and improve capabilities and tech development efforts. Of the requested amount, $26.8 million is being earmarked to allow USSPACECOM to achieve full operational capability. According to USSPACECOM Commander Gen. James […]
The Department of Labor has expanded its pilot program on robotic process automation and is now reaping the benefits across various mission areas. The agency started in 2020 with just one RPA bot, which was deployed in the procurement space. Since then, additional bots have been created for human resources, automated regression testing, automated performance […]
Richard Stone, acting undersecretary of the Veterans Health Administration, will step down from his post in mid-July. Stone will wrap up a four-year stint with the Department of Veterans Affairs, during which he held the roles of principal deputy undersecretary for health and executive in charge at the VHA. The VA said in an announcement […]
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and the Missile Defense Agency are seeking a combined $350 million in additional funding from Congress to strengthen defense capabilities in Guam. USINDOPACOM stated in its unfunded priority list that its top priority is to develop a ballistic missile system in the U.S. territory. To build the capability, the combatant command […]
Science Applications International Corp. has been awarded a five-year, $126 million task order to enable modeling and simulation enhancements in support of the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center. The CCDC GVSC oversees the development and integration of solutions into the military’s crewed and unmanned ground combat and combat support systems. Work […]
The Senate, via a 68-32 vote, has approved the U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness Act, which includes legislation granting more than $10 billion to support NASA’s Human Landing System program. Funding authorized by the NASA bill will be used to finance a second HLS contractor and the existing $2.9 billion lunar lander development contract awarded to […]
