President Barack Obama has nominated Vice Adm. Dixon Smith as deputy chief of naval operations for fleet and readiness at the U.S. Navy and Rear Adm. Mary Jackson as commander of the Navy Installations
The Energy Department is granting $150 million in tax credits to 12 companies that invest in clean energy manufacturing as part of efforts to minimize carbon pollution in the U.S. These credits
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The departments of the Navy and Agriculture have moved to combine the U.S. militaryâs operational fuels with portions of biofuel in an effort to embrace alternatives to diesel. Biofuel will be added
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The U.S. Air Force is asking its acquisition managers to implement programs in the same manner that they executed plans under the 2013 sequestration amid a new federal spending agreement, Federal News
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Research firm IDC has released two new forecasts regarding growth in U.S. federal spending on information technology and security and the intelligence budget landscape through 2017. The Business Strategy: U.S. Federal Government
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Sen. Tim Kaine has expressed hope the U.S. military could keep $20 billion of its budget if a new proposal from the House and Senate budget committees passes into law, Breaking Defense
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House and Senate budget committee leaders have jointly proposed a budget allocating more than $1 trillion in annual discretionary spending for the 2014 and 2015 fiscal years, FierceGovernment reported Tuesday. Ryan McDermott
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The departments of the Agriculture and Navy are set to announce new biofuel procurement opportunities at a summit scheduled for Sunday through Wednesday in San Diego. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Navy Secretary Ray
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The Department of Homeland Security is looking to mobile devices as the agency’s primary means of communication, Federal Times reported Monday. Andy Medici writes the DHS is also developing security and privacy infrastructures
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A new Government Accountability Office testimony submitted to a House subcommittee says the U.S. government succeeded in consolidating processes for gathering geospatial data used in responding to emergencies, GovExec reported Monday. Charles Clark
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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has told a security conference the U.S. intends to sell weapons to the Gulf Cooperation Council as a block in an effort to strengthen collective defense capabilities,
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