The U.S. Navy and the government of Queensland in Australia have signed an agreement to advance research and development work on biofuels. Thomas Hicks, deputy undersecretary of the Navy for management, signed
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Rear Adm. Brian Brakke, former deputy director of operations and intelligence integration at the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, has assumed a new role as head of the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. The U.S.
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The Office of Naval Research has developed nanoscale electrical wires made of genetically modified soil bacteria. ONR’s warfighting performance department sponsored a team of researchers led by Derek Lovley, a microbiologist at the University
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The U.S. Census Bureau has begun its search for a candidate who will serve as head of the office of information security in Washington. The bureau said in an Aug. 3 notice on USAJobs
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Paul de Sa, a senior analyst for U.S. telecommunications at Bernstein Research, is set to return to the Federal Communications Commission as head of the agency’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy
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NASA has unveiled a new web portal that offers public access to scientific information from various agency-funded studies. The space agency said Tuesday it aims to expand the dissemination of fundamental space research data through the Funded Research Results portal on
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Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell’s federal business, has said the structure of legacy software for government off-the-shelf products is the main challenge facing the government’s information technology modernization efforts in an interview with Signal
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A hacker group known as “Shadow Brokers” plans to auction off files it claims it has stolen from the computer systems of “Equation Group” cyber spies linked with the National Security Agency, Wired reported Monday. Andy
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NASA has partnered with Space Center Houston and innovation consulting firm NineSigma to launch a $1 million prize competition that seeks to foster technology development in the area of robotic dexterity to support the agency’s Journey to
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The General Services Administration has combined one program office and 11 regional programs for network services to form a single national program that will work to facilitate the procurement of regional and wide-area network
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