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Lawmakers have asked the Congressional Budget Office to develop cost estimates for the U.S. Navy's plan to grow its fleet size to 355 ships, USNI News reported Tuesday. Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Virginia)...

A Government Accountability Office report obtained by Deltek predicts the ratio of U.S. public debt to gross domestic product to grow and exceed the historical high of 106 percent in...

A new Congressional Budget Office report shows that federal budget shortfall hit $159 billion after the first four months of fiscal 2017, approximately $1 billion lower than the figure recorded for the same...

The Government Accountability Office has urged the Department of Homeland Security to collaborate with partners to identify ways on how to coordinate access control initiatives across critical infrastructure sectors. DHS’ screening...

The White House looks to approve a proposed $300 million foreign military sale of precision-guided missile package to Saudi Arabia and a potential multibillion dollar order for F-16 aircraft from Bahrain, The...

Richard McKinney Richard McKinney, former chief information officer at the Transportation Department, has said Riverbed's performance monitoring and diagnostics tools helped the department detect 200 unexpected devices on its networks, FedTech Magazine...

John Kelly, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has said that he plans to retain the former Obama administration's critical infrastructure designation to U.S. election systems as part of cybersecurity efforts,...

The U.S. Strategic Command and Belgium's federal science policy office have agreed to exchange space-related information and services in a joint push to increase situational  awareness in the space domain. Stratcom said Tuesday that BELSPO joins...

Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein has said the U.S. Air Force will continue to use the A-10 Warthog aircraft for the service branch's close-air support missions until 2021, Defense...

William Zhang, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has developed a silicon-based method to manufacture lightweight X-ray optical mirrors. NASA said Tuesday that Zhang believes the use of silicon technology...