The Department of Agriculture has announced a new initiative that will provide $100M in grants to support the use of ethanol and biofuel.

Brooks Tucker, assistant secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs, has been appointed to serve as the VA chief of staff on an acting basis.

The Department of Energy will grant $50M for further investigation of fusion energy.

U.S. Army soldiers in Fort Sill, Okla., are using virtual reality in a Lockheed Martin-built laboratory to inspect the prototype of a long-range hypersonic weapon and suggest improvements.

The U.S. Army has announced a new corps headquarters that will be based in Fort Knox, Ky.

Army officials believe that data and cloud will be important aspects in planning multidomain missions, C4ISRNET reported Monday.

Mark Esper, secretary of defense and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, intends for the U.S. Navy to grow its fleet of ships, Defense News reported Feb. 9. Esper believes that the Navy should shift its focus to procuring ships that require minimal crew. 

The Defense Information Systems Agency recently brainstormed with Drury University personnel on ways to accelerate the agency’s #NEXTGEN cybersecurity education program.

The Department of Energy has stated that a new grant in the amount of $125.5M will be used to conduct research on solar energy technology.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, director at the Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, will step down from his role and retire from military service this summer, C4ISRNET reported Friday.