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Carla Provost Carla Provost, acting chief of the U.S. Border Patrol since April 2017, has been appointed to the position on a full-time basis. She has held various supervisory, management and...

Mike Pence Vice President Mike Pence has announced plans to establish by the end of the year a new space-focused military command that would be headed by a four-star general, The...

A house subcommittee dedicated to oversee a Department of Veterans Affairs electronic health record modernization program will hold its first hearing on Sept. 13, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Rep....

David Berteau Federal agencies are expected to spend up to 40 percent of their fiscal 2018 budgets before the new fiscal year begins in October, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Defense and...

Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has announced the removal of the word "experimental" from the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental in a move to emphasize the organization's permanence within the Defense...

The Defense Science Board is advising the government to integrate the military's cyber defense efforts with other agencies, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The advisory board's report, titled "Cyber as a...

John Michael Loh, a retired U.S. Air Force general, wrote in an opinion piece posted Thursday on Defense News he believes the military service should use "rollback" strategies along with stealth aircraft...

The Defense Department, the General Services Administration and NASA have started seeking comments on a proposal to develop a standard method of collecting voluntary feedback from government contractors regarding contracts...

The U.S. Air Force 412th Operations Group is using Alpha Jets as test support units for chase planes. The move comes in an effort to augment the service branch's chase...

Bureau of the Fiscal Service Commissioner Kim McCoy has invited chief financial officers at federal agencies to try and put into action any of the 10 initiatives outlined in a...