The new Senate-passed defense spending package contains a bill that would fund projects to modernize government information technology systems. A press release published Monday on Sen. Jerry Moran’s (R-Kansas) website said the
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The U.S. Air Force will launch a one-year science and technology review in an effort to update the service branch’s research priorities and strategy. The study will focus on the Air Force’s research
More Walter Copan, nominee for the National Institute of Standards and Technology director post, has said he intends to prioritize the implementation of NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework that seeks to help federal agencies and industry
More Alan Thomas, commissioner of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service, has promoted acting assistant FAS commissioner Mary Davie to the deputy commissioner post in a series of leadership changes at the agency, Federal
More The Senate on Monday approved through an 89-8Â vote a bill that would authorize $700 billion in defense spending for fiscal year 2018, Defense News reported Monday. The FY 2018 National Defense Authorization
More The First Responder Network Authority Board has approved a fiscal year 2018 budget of $73.5 million to fund FirstNet’s efforts to deploy, operate and manage a nationwide public safety broadband network. FirstNet
More The U.S. Air Force has inaugurated its first permanent facility inside the Israeli Air Force’s Mashabim Air Base in Negev desert, Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Tzvika Haimovitch, chief of Israel’s
More The U.S. Air Force has activated a pair of new Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites in a move to expand the service branch’s capacity to track and characterize objects in space. The
More Thomas Harker, associate deputy assistant secretary for financial policy at the Department of Veterans Affairs, will be nominated as assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy financial management and comptroller office. The White
More National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo has said NGA has initiated talks with Congress to strike a public-private partnership in an effort to facilitate the exchange of the agency’s data archives for industry’s
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