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NASA has launched a project to develop a laser communications system for the Orion spacecraft the agency intends to use for its future manned missions to deep space. The Laser-Enhanced Mission and Navigation Operational...

Michael Flynn President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn seeks "immunity from prosecution" in exchange for testimony before House and Senate intelligence committees investigating Russia's involvement in U.S. presidential...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is close to completing a document that seeks to guide federal agencies on how to implement and unify a cybersecurity framework that NIST...

  David Lewis Rear Adm. David Lewis, chief of the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, has been nominated for assignment as director of the Defense Contract Management Agency and for...

The U.S. Army wants to partner with a team of companies to design, build and test a next-generation combat vehicle prototype, Defense News reported Wednesday. Jen Judson writes Todd Thomas, a project manager at the...

The Defense Information Systems Agency has introduced cyber evaluation program meant to help combatant commands and federal agencies examine operational risks of missions based on a network's current state of cybersecurity. DISA said Wednesday the Command...

The U.S. Navy has launched an effort to pursue laser weapons integration as part of the service branch's Rapid Prototyping, Experimentation and Demonstration project, USNI News reported Wednesday. Rear Adm. Mike...

President Donald Trump’s supplemental budget request for fiscal year 2017 would allocate $3 billion in additional funds for the Department of Homeland Security to support immigration enforcement and border security programs...

Grant Schneider, acting federal chief information security officer at the Office of Management and Budget, has said the U.S. Digital Service and the General Services Administration’s 18F organization should continue to...

The Government Accountability Office has found that the Department of Homeland Security implemented multiple initiatives to protect federal systems from cyber intrusions and attacks. GAO said in a report published Tuesday that DHS introduced...