BlackBerry Limited has appointed Majorie Dickman as the company’s first chief government affairs and public policy officer to lead regulatory affairs and operations, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Gen. Charles Q. Brown, commander of Pacific Air Forces, has been nominated to succeed the retiring Gen. David Goldfein (2020 Wash100 awardee) as chief of staff at the U.S. Air Force.
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Raytheon, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the Green Bank Observatory (GBO) have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement to detect and characterize near-earth asteroids large enough to cause
More The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) as part of GSA’s Centers of Excellence (CoE) initiative to accelerate establishing and operationalizing
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The Office of Management and Budget has issued a draft memorandum that would direct federal agencies to transition to Internet Protocol Version 6. A Federal Register notice published Monday says the draft memo
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NASA Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk said he expects the Space Launch System's initial flight to occur in mid-2021 or late 2021, SpaceNews reported Monday.
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The Department of Defense has begun a study to identify weaknesses in the industrial base for the development of hypersonic weapons, Defense News reported Monday. Mark Lewis, director of research and engineering for modernization
More Rear Adm. Christian Becker, commander of the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, said that “great communication” with industry and new other transaction authority approaches helped the service speed up acquisition efforts, C4ISRnet
More U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is looking into the use of blockchain technology for the security of intellectual property rights. CBP said Friday that the agency is testing an integrated platform to protect the IPR of
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Brain Whittaker, acting director of the General Services Administration’s 18F unit, said he seeks to promote collaborations between the digital services component and other GSA efforts, Fedscoop reported Friday.
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