Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has appointed former Navy captain Vernon Parks as its sea control mission area executive. In his new role, Parks will oversee efforts to support U.S. Navy and
The Department of Energy has named the companies that will participate in the Reactor Pilot Program, which aims to accelerate the testing and deployment of advanced reactor technologies. As part of the
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Special operations forces, or SOF, will test the Wearable All-hazard Remote-monitoring Program, shortened to WARP, a device that can monitor vitals and warn command posts when an operator is exposed to dangerous
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The U.S. Coast Guard has commissioned the medium polar icebreaker USCGC Storis to increase the nation’s presence in the Arctic. Troy Edgar, deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, attended the
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The next Joint Warfighting Cloud Computing, or JWCC, contract might be open to more cloud service providers, according to the official overseeing the acquisition effort. In an interview with John Hale, chief
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The Department of the Navy has issued guidance for the use of adaptive roadmaps for investment decisions and to enhance the process of delivering new capabilities that support warfighters. The memo was
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David Voelker, zero trust lead at the Department of the Navy, is pushing for the introduction of artificial intelligence into DON’s zero trust strategy. In a conversation with Federal News Network, Voelker
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The U.S. Army has issued an organization-wide memo to guide the optimization of systems critical to operations. Signed by Leonel Garciga, the service’s chief information officer and a two-time Wash100 winner, the
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The Catalyst Accelerator has named the six small businesses that will participate in its directed energy and electromagnetic warfare cohort. From August to November, the cohort will meet every two weeks to
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Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.; Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.; Susan Collins, R-Maine; and Angus King, I-Maine have proposed legislation that would spare the Navy’s four public shipyards from workforce reductions. Called the Protecting Public
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MITRE identified challenges preventing the Department of Defense from rapidly adopting commercial innovations and provided recommendations that would accelerate capability delivery to warfighters in a new paper published Monday. Titled Breaking Barriers:
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