Several U.S. Marine Corps and Japanese ground self-defense force members held a four-day joint exercise at a USMC air station in Iwakuni, Japan, to test the capacity of both military organizations to work alongside each
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said the Defense Department’s partnership with innovation and commercial technology communities helps the U.S. military to be agile and ready for future threats, DoD News reported Monday.
More The Defense Department’s Office of Strategy and Force Development has launched a crowdsourcing initiative to gather ideas in support of DoD efforts to address operational challenges, DoD News reported Monday. Cheryl Pellerin writes Mara Karlin, deputy
More The Defense Information Systems Agency has called on U.S. allied countries to join the agency’s program that works to provide unlimited access to Iridium‘s constellation of mobile communications satellites, Space News reported Friday. Peter de
More The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency has rolled out an automated event coder that works to identify almost 300 types of socio-political events in text. IARPA funded the release of the Accurate Events from Natural
More The Government Accountability Office has found that Defense Department-owned utility systems experienced 4,393 instances of disruptions due to equipment failure from fiscal years 2009 through 2015. DoD installation officials claimed the utility disruptions
More Mary Jo White, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, intends to step down from her current role by the end of President Barack Obama’s administration after a more than three-year stint with the
More A new MeriTalk study estimates the federal government can save up to $5 billion in annual cybersecurity funds through optimized threat monitoring, correlation and protection automation. The report titled “Pedal to the Metal: Mitigating New Threats
More The Defense Department‘s inspector general has recommended the U.S. Navy assess whether to continue or cancel the development of the Knifefish surface mine countermeasure unmanned undersea vehicle. DoD IG said Tuesday the requirements developers
More The U.S. Air Force is looking to retrain more than 1,900 enlisted personnel to support approximately 95 understaffed career fields, Air Force Times reported Sunday. Stephen Losey writes the service branch’s Non-Commissioned Officer Retraining Program also needs
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