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Phyllis Bayer, assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy for energy, installations and environment, will retire from government service to “pursue other opportunities,” the service said Friday.

Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, criticized NASA and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in a recent letter to federal officials for opposing the proposed 5G network...

The U.S. Senate confirmed Bill Vajda, former chief information officer of Alaska, to fill the same role at the Department of Interior. He is returning to federal service after a decade...

Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley, deputy commander of the U.S. Army Futures Command, said during South by Southwest event that startups may have to work with larger firms to deploy technologies to...

The U.S. Postal Service completed $15.9B in contracts in fiscal year 2018, representing the agency’s largest commercial spending period since 2016, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. The figure was nearly $1B...

The U.S. Army's $190B budget request for fiscal year 2020 will include $21.8B for acquisition and $12.2B for research, development, test and evaluation, Defense News reported Sunday.

The Government Accountability Office found that the Office of Management and Budget is not providing publicly available, comprehensive data that identifies hundreds of billions of dollars it annually collects in...

The Department of Homeland Security's science and technology directorate is extending the 30-day comment period for a planned set of testing standards that will allow interoperability for digital land mobile radio systems...

The U.S. Air Force's 4th Special Operations Squadron has received the first delivery of an updated AC-130J Ghostrider gunship equipped with the aircraft's Block 30 configuration, Military.com reported Friday. The...

Valerie Browning, director of Defense Sciences Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said DARPA will continue building smarter artificial intelligence-based tools to improve man-machine teaming across the Pentagon, Nextgov reported...