Dava Newman, an aeronautics and astronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be nominated by President Barack Obama for the no. 2 position at NASA. She is an MIT faculty
MoreJohn Pistole is set to retire from the Transportation Security Administration on Dec. 31 after more than 30 years of government service. He will take on a new role in academia beginning 2015, the
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The U.S. Army has placed a “high priority” on developing joint light tactical vehicles to replace part of the service’s Humvee fleet, DoD Buzz reported Wednesday. Brendan McGarry writes Heidi Shyu, Army
MoreAndre Gudger, director of the Defense Department‘s Office of Small Business Programs, has indicated an increase in small-business contracting with the agency exceeding its goals in the sector for the first time. The Pentagon awarded
MoreThe Office of Personnel Management is using data to guide agency campaigns that seek to attract more science, technology, engineering and math professionals into federal service, OPM Director Katherine Archuleta said Thursday.
MoreClifford Holly, FBI deputy assistant director for the training division in Quantico, Virginia, has moved to the agencyâs headquarters to take on a new role as assistant director in charge of the
MoreThe Federal Aviation Administration has collaborated with a panel of aviation industry representatives to develop a three-year plan to implement the NextGen satellite-based air traffic control system. FAA and the NextGen Advisory
MoreRichard Berner, director of the Office of Financial Research with the Treasury Department, said his office will survey industry on repurchase agreements starting early 2015 to gather data for policymakers and repo
MoreThe U.S. Air Force and NASA have signed an agreement that allows the military branch to process an unmanned space plane inside two former shuttle hangars at the Kennedy Space Center in
MoreThe Government Accountability Office has urged the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer to gather feedback from potential private-sector customers on the consortium’s technology transfer clearinghouse initiatives and establish performance metrics for those initiatives. GAO
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