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Will Roper, the former Air Force acquisition chief, has joined the board of directors of
Volansi, a company focused on autonomous, vertical take-off and landing middle-mile drone delivery services and holds a spot on the USAF s Skyborg program, and also joined the board of advisers at augmented reality firm
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Government Accountability Officereport, federal agencies continue to pursue data center consolidation goals without a clear, consistent metric for server utilization, a key data point for measuring accomplishments. Separately, the report notes that agencies are showing impressive progress on the consolidation policy, with $6.24 billion in reported savings or cost avoidance from 2012-2020 and the closure of hundreds of federal agency data centers.
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Section 1. Policy. Advancing gender equity and equality is a matter of human rights, justice, and fairness. It is also a strategic imperative that reduces poverty and promotes economic growth, increases access to education, improves health outcomes, advances political stability, and fosters democracy. The full participation of all people including women and girls across all aspects of our society is essential to the economic well-being, health, and security of our Nation and of the world.
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Biden signs voting rights order on Bloody Sunday anniversary. Here s what it does Bailey Aldridge, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Mar. 7 President Joe Biden on Sunday signed an executive order aimed at expanding voting access marking the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.
The order, which Biden discussed at the Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast, will work to expand access to voter registration and information, aim to increase access to voting and analyze barriers to voting, among other things, according to a news release from the White House.
On March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday, civil rights activists organized a march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery. The group of about 600 people, led by the late Rep. John Lewis, were met by state troopers, who beat and tear-gassed protesters.