The Office of Naval Research held the ninth annual RoboBoat Competition in Virginia in which 13 high school and college student teams participated in robotics programming and development activities. Teams had to complete
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House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has asked acting Office of Personnel Management chief Beth Cobert for documents and responses on inquiries related to OPM’s cybersecurity posture and causes of data breaches in the agency. Smith said
More The Air Force Space Command has released details of the newly implemented Space Mission Force in a white paper posted on the command’s website. The white paper shows two main functions of the
More The U.S. Navy is considering the potential use of a robotic system patterned after the sucker-headed fish Remora to deploy future underwater drones in the sea, Defense One reported Sunday. Rear Adm. Michael
More Roopangi Kadakia – program executive for security operations, web services and information management at NASA — has been appointed as chief information security officer of the Department of Veteran Affairs, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday.
More The Non-Commissioned Officers Association has appointed Vince Patton, a U.S. Coast Guard veteran and former master chief of the service branch, as its new president responsible for the organization’s strategic growth and expansion
More The U.S. Army has begun to monitor mosquitoes at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland to check for mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus. The service branch said Monday APG houses seven test sites for health officials to
More The Defense Department and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want to develop new technology in support of the Pentagon’s Third Offset Strategy with a central theme on autonomous artificial intelligence that operate real-world robots and
More Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, formerly joint force development director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has received his fourth star and assumed the role of commander of the U.S. Africa Command, DoD
More The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and its partner Gawi Healthcare have developed a small, lightweight, passive cooling technology in an effort to reduce heat stress under a cooperative research-and-development agreement. A July 13 post on
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