The fiscal 2020 budget request cuts about $300 million from NIST across most areas, including manufacturing and scientific measurements.
House lawmakers are skeptical 2020 budget requests will be enough to tackle attrition, morale and recruitment challenges for TSA or the U.S. Coast Guard.
Now that the agency defends itself against more than a billion cyber attacks a year, Commissioner Chuck Rettig urged members of the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday for multi-year funds to modernize its hardware as well as its workforce, which hasn't recovered from seven years of a hiring freeze.
In today's Federal Newscast, a new federal interagency strategy from the Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, looks to reduce how much food is wasted.
Some estimates put the number of cyber job openings at a more than 300,000. It's a nationwide problem.
IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig has urged members of a House Appropriations subcommittee to give the agency the authority to hire short-term cyber and IT talent more quickly and pay them at a rate beyond the pay scale for career employees.
John Jeremiah, enterprise DevOps evangelist and product marketing leader at GitLab, joined Federal News Network to discuss how agencies can benefit from a rapid application development mindset.
Analyst Chase Cunningham said the concept of zero trust means removing the potential for someone to be the person who causes a cybersecurity failure.