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NASA is planning a joint mission with the European Space Agency to study potential signs of life on Jupiter's Europa moon, New Scientist reported Monday. Andy Coghlan writes Michel Blanc, a scientist...

Randolph Alles President Donald Trump has appointed Randolph Alles, former acting deputy commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection and a retired Marine Corps major general, as director of the U.S. Secret Service,...

The Government Accountability Office has called on the Federal Aviation Administration to implement initiatives to identify FAA's long term research-and-development priorities and  comply with research-related statutory reporting requirements. GAO said Monday it found that...

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched an effort to research and develop "quantum enhanced" computers. The Quantum Enhanced Optimization program aims to develop technology that can speed up the training of machine...

President Donald Trump last week signed a bill authorizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to acquire weather data from commercial satellite systems, Space News reported Friday. Jeff Foust writes the Weather...

Ajit Pai Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has said he met with executives at tech companies such as Intel, Oracle, Cisco and Facebook to seek comments on his plan...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a radio signal traffic emulator built to simulate electromagnetic communications during DARPA's collaborative machine-learning competition. The Colosseum will serve as a testbed for electromagnetic...

Mary McCord, acting assistant attorney general and principal deputy assistant attorney general for national security at the Justice Department, will step down from her position in May, NPR reported Thursday. Carrie...

The Justice Department's Office of Information Policy has partnered with the General Services Administration's 18F digital services group to build a website for processing of Freedom of Information Act requests. OIP said Wednesday it will gather input...

President Donald Trump has signed a bill to extend a Department of Veterans Affairs program that allows eligible military veterans to receive medical care from a civilian provider, DoD News reported Thursday. Trump said the...