The Defense Contract Management Agency is in the process of hiring personnel for its network of “centers of excellence” that aim to give procurement and contracting officers guidance on what constitutes as a commercial
The U.S. Navy handed over a Lockheed Martin-built submarine-hunting airplane to Taiwan Wednesday as part of a $1.96 billion arms sale package approved in 2007, Focus Taiwan News Channel reported Wednesday. Claudia Liu and
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A panel of former government officials and national security experts says the Defense Department could cut $50 billion from its fiscal year 2015 budget without sequestration being in place. The Stimson Center’s
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Democratic leaders in the Senate will push to nullify sequestration cuts in December as part of a mini-omnibus spending bill that would fund the government for fiscal year 2014, Defense News reported Monday.
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Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter has told employees in a memo that many civilian workers would be temporarily furloughed in the event of a government shutdown, the American Forces Press Service reported Monday. Jim
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The Office of Management and Budget is reducing the number of rules that govern agencies’ financial systems in order to give them more control over how to update the systems, Federal News Radio
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North Korea probably test-fired a rocket engine in August and satellite imagery indicates the country could have a second- or third-stage rocket under development, according to a 38 North analysis published Monday.
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Two chairman of House Science, Space and Technology subcommittees are questioning the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s plan to use data from two Chinese satellites to produce weather forecasts, FCW reported Friday. Frank Konkel writes Environment
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The office of cybersecurity and communications within the Department of Homeland Security‘s National Protection and Programs Directorate has a vacancy rate of one-in-five for cybersecurity-related jobs, GovInfo Security reported Friday. Eric Chabrow writes the Government
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The Air Force Research Laboratory is asking industry to submit white papers detailing ideas on how to anticipate, identify and track space threats through situational awareness and command and control. AFRL officials are
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U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Eric Fiel, U.S. Special Operations Command, said at a conference this week, that arms makers today should expedite new weapons development, Reuters reported Thursday. “We put a
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