Emil Michael, the Department of Defense’s under secretary of defense for research and engineering—its unofficial chief technology officer—has taken on the role of acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, Defense News
Robert Metzger, head of the Washington D.C. office at law firm Rogers Joseph O’Donnell, shared his insights on a new Department of Defense guidance for determining certification levels and administering waiver authority
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The General Services Administration has released two deviations to the Federal Acquisition Regulations, or FAR, and procurement practices to implement three recent executive orders, including the Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based
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Scott Jones, chief information officer of the Selective Service System, said SSS is close to completing the initial phase of its modernization effort for its registration system, which will enable the agency
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The Defense Innovation Unit has announced the selection of 23 unmanned aircraft systems and 14 UAS components and software that will transition to cybersecurity review and the National Defense Authorization Act, or
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Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Government Group, said the public sector experiences fraud at a rate of about 20 percent compared with about 3 percent in the private sector. At
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has appointed Brianne Ogilvie, a more than a decade VA executive, as deputy executive director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, or OSDBU. The
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The House has proposed a budget plan that would add $100 billion in defense funding, increase the debt limit by $4 trillion, include tax cuts worth approximately $4.5 trillion and reduce government
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President Trump has selected former congressman Devin Nunes to chair an advisory board that will advise the chief executive on the country’s key security challenges and ensure that the Intelligence Community advances
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Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, the U.S. Space Force’s acting acquisition executive, said his office is advancing efforts to reform acquisition processes and ramp up oversight of underperforming programs, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. “We’re
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Michael Ellis, former general counsel of the National Security Agency during the first Trump administration, took oath Monday as CIA deputy director. “Michael is highly respected in the Intelligence Community and ranks
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