U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Linda Urrutia-Varhall — former assistant deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the Pentagon — has been assigned to a new role as director of operations
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work have discussed security issues and potential points of military cooperation with Peter Hultqvist and Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, respective defense ministers for Sweden and
More NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has received the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer technology the space agency aims to send to the International Space Station in February 2017 aboard a SpaceX cargo resupply spacecraft. The NICER
More The U.S. Navy has transported its newest oceanographic survey vessel to Port Everglades near Florida to its construction site Pascagoula, Mississippi in the ship’s first voyage. The Naval Oceanographic Office’s civilian survey detachment assessed USNS
More Terry Halvorsen, chief information officer at the Defense Department, has said the government should forge partnerships with industry in order to address cybersecurity challenges, Signal magazine reported Wednesday. Sandra Jontz writes Halvorsen gave the
More Todd McCall, formerly the special agent in charge of FBI‘s Memphis division, has received an appointment from FBI Director James Comey to serve as assistant director of the operational technology division. McCall will
More Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has unveiled the third and fourth sets of the Defense Department‘s Force of the Future initiative in a move to reform strategies for DoD to manage its civilian and military personnel. The program’s first link aims to increase
More Senators from Maryland and Virginia have asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) to have the upper chamber vote on the confirmation of Beth Cobert, acting director at the Office of Personnel Management,
More The House Appropriations Committee has introduced a bill that would authorize $41.1 billion in discretionary budget for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2017. The committee said Wednesday the proposed
More NASA has re-established the space agency’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Texas as a site for heavy-lift balloon launch missions. The agency said Wednesday it is scheduled to launch the Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope payload Thursday
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