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Report: U.S. Workforce Falling Behind Competitors in Digital Skills (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

The U.S. workforce is becoming less digitally-savvy compared to those of other nations, with American employees broadly lagging in skills like basic computer literacy...

Sixth Member of International Hacking Community Sentenced in SIM Card Scheme (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

A U.S. court sentenced a member of an international hacking organization to 10 months in prison along with heavy fines in connection with a...

Energy Department Awards Verizon $34.6M to Modernize its Communications Services (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

The Energy Department selected Verizon Public Sector to boost its communications and information technology services across all of its existing hubs—and support any new...

CISA Seeks Protective Email Service that Tracks Agencies’ Security Compliance (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is in the market for a service that can help to protect both recipients of government emails as...

FTC Investigating Major Retailers Over Supply Chain Backlog (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

The Federal Trade Commission ordered nine major retailers, including Amazon, Kroger, and Walmart, to release company information to illuminate ongoing supply chain issues that...

US, S. Korea to Write New War Plan to Counter N. Korean Nukes, Missiles (Tara Copp, Defense One)

The U.S. and the Republic of Korea are expected to announce this week they will begin writing a new war plan for North Korea...

Former Air Force Weapons Chief Tapped as Pentagon’s Lead Arms Buyer (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One)

Bill LaPlante, who left the Pentagon in 2015, has spent the past six years working on technologies the military craves. President Biden said Tuesday...

Range Limits, Enemy Snooping Are Leading Naval Services to More Virtual Training (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

Virtual training environments are becoming more important as the naval services work around the limits of physical ranges and try to keep adversaries from...

The NDAA Likely Won’t Become Law Until 2022. That’s ‘Not The End of the World’ (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

It’s looking more and more likely that the annual defense policy bill will not become law in 2021. Congress frequently has an end-of-calendar-year push to...

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