The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has found that federal agencies used the authority under the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 to launch 47 prize competitions during fiscal year 2015
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Gen. John Nicholson, commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, has called on India to boost military aid for the Middle Eastern nation in support of Western sanctions against Russia, Defense News
More The U.S. Navy‘s Littoral Combat Ship program has conducted a blast and fire test on a full-scale Independence-variant LCS replicate at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center to evaluate the overall survivability of the
More The Democratic National Committee has established a cybersecurity advisory board in an effort to help prevent future cyber attacks, Politico reported Thursday. Nolan McCaskill writes the advisory board is created to respond to the
More The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s National Counterintelligence and Security Center has unveiled a video that seeks to inform public and private entities on foreign risks facing the industry’s supply chain. ODNI said Thursday it
More The U.S. Army Materiel Command’s Anniston Army Depot has awarded a utility energy service contract that clinched the service branch’s $1 billion mark in energy savings performance contracts. The Army said Thursday the
More The Department of Health and Human Services has decided to move $81 million in funds from other research programs to efforts that seek to advance development work on vaccines against Zika virus,
More The House Oversight Committee has asked the Government Accountability Office to evaluate the Census Bureau‘s readiness to conduct an end-to-end test in 2018 as part of the bureau’s preparedness strategy for 2020 Census.
More The General Services Administration‘s inspector general has found that GSA has adopted multi-factor authentication for 11 of its 18 covered information technology systems in compliance with government policies for data systems. GSA IG said
More The U.S. Marine Corps has kicked off a three-year refresh effort on 147 Sikorsky-built CH-53E Super Stallion heavy lift helicopters. The move to reset CH-53E is in response to an independent readiness review
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