Adm. Michael Rogers, head of the U.S. Cyber Command, has formed a task force to create digital weapons meant to disrupt the Islamic State militant organization’s online activities, the Washington Post reported Friday.
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter has sent a letter to the leaders of House and Senate Armed Services Committees to outline his concerns about funding strategies and certain measures contained in the fiscal 2017 defense
More The U.S. Army Cyber Command has been designated by the Department of the Army as an Army service component command. ARCYBER will work in support of the U.S. Cyber Command as well as
More The Congressional Budget Office estimates a proposed Senate bill that would make some changes to the State Department‘s operations could trigger a $6.5 billion increase in direct spending from fiscal year 2017 to
More A bill introduced in the Senate would require the Federal Communications Commission to explore new methods to expand telecommunications services access in the event of a natural disaster. The Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act of
More The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard plan to create a joint program office that will be responsible for the acquisition of a new polar icebreaker, Navy Times reported Thursday. The chief of staff for Rep. Duncan
More President Barack Obama has nominated U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Charles Richard, director of the undersea warfare division (N97) at the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, as deputy commander of the U.S.
More The U.S. Agency for International Development and NASA have launched SERVIR-West Africa, an environmental monitoring program in Niamey, Niger, that will work to address the climate-sensitive issues of the region through space-based observations. NASA said
More The Department of Veterans Affairs has scheduled more than 2 million community healthcare appointments for retired service personnel under a program. VA said Thursday the Veterans Choice Program is part of the
More NASA will proceed to the system assembly, integration, test and launch stage for a mission to the sun scheduled to launch in the summer of 2018. Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory said Thursday the space agency
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