The Senate on Tuesday voted 51-47 to confirm Thomas DiNanno, a national security leader, as the next under secretary of state for arms control and international security. According to a congressional notice,
Barry Tanner, deputy chief information officer at the Department of the Navy, said DON’s Cattle Drive initiative is currently focused on the business mission area with plans to eliminate 55 to 60
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright has announced several reforms to address burdensome permitting rules and regulations for construction projects at the Department of Energy’s 17 national laboratories as part of efforts to accelerate
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The U.S. Army has tapped AEVEX Aerospace, Anduril Industries and RTX subsidiary Raytheon to provide their technologies for a special demonstration of the Launched Effects-Short Range, or LE-SR, system. The service branch
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The Defense Logistics Agency and the Veterans Health Administration have signed a potential 10-year, $3.6 billion partnership agreement to centralize the acquisition process for goods and services between the two agencies. How
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The Atlantic Council on Thursday released a report outlining nine recommendations on how the Department of Defense can advance the adoption of software-defined warfare to rapidly respond to emerging threats in a
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President Donald Trump has nominated Katherine Sutton, a cyber policy and technology expert, to serve as assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy. Congress received Sutton’s nomination for the Department of Defense
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The Senate on Tuesday voted 74-25 to confirm Michael Kratsios, a two-time Wash100 Award winner, as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP. Kratsios’ confirmation as
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Stephen Ehikian, acting administrator of the General Services Administration, said streamlining and centralizing procurement and rationalizing IT infrastructure and software as a shared service are part of his vision for GSA. Centralizing
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Breaking Defense reported Tuesday that the Department of Defense indicated in an internal memo its intent to make the Advana big-data platform of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, or CDAO,
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The General Services Administration has launched a rightsizing initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Multiple Award Schedule, or MAS, Program. In a statement published Monday, Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of GSA’s Federal
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