Reps. Steve Russell and Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma have authored a new bill that seeks to allow the state’s military installations to recruit additional employees. The proposed Department of Defense Workforce Flexibility Act
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Jamie Morin, director of cost assessment and program evaluation at the Defense Department, has said the programming facet of the planning, programming and budgeting process aims to bring “comprehensive deterrence” for the
More Defense Department Comptroller Mike McCord said DoD’s fiscal 2017 budget plan has been developed to address the diverse needs of all U.S. military agencies across operational domains and geographic areas, DoD News reported Monday. Jim
More Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work has highlighted several technology research programs that service and civilian personnel currently develop at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio in support of the Defense Department’s Third
More Two U.S. Army officials have said the service branch’s proposed budget of $125.1 billion for fiscal year 2017 aims to establish military readiness against asymmetric threats posed by Russia, China, North Korea
More A team of National Institute of Standards and Technology scientists has invented a “nondestructive” process for quality control testing of carbon nanotube and graphene materials that are increasingly used in the electronics manufacturing sector. NIST
More Mike Tanner, president and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corp., has said the adoption of tiered storage tools and software-defined platforms can help federal agencies address the challenges posed by big data.
More Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said the U.S. National Guard‘s cyber squadrons could be called upon to participate in the campaign against the Islamic State militant group, Reuters reported Sunday. Andrea Shalal writes the
More The Government Accountability Office has called on 10 agencies to establish their planned cost savings goals through data center closures and urged 22 agencies to boost performance in data center optimization. Those
More A Senate panel has cleared a bill that would require federal agencies to give up some of their airwaves for use in commercial wireless communications, Bloomberg BNA reported Friday. Lydia Beyoud writes
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