The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched a challenge that aims to encourage participants to develop algorithms that can generate three-dimensional point clouds from satellite images. IARPA will award $100,000 in total
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Terry Milholland has departed his role as chief technology officer of the Internal Revenue Service as the critical pay authority through which he was hired nears its expiration, FCW reported Friday. Zach
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President Barack Obama has nominated Air Force Maj. Gen. Steven Shepro, vice director of strategic plans and policy (J-5) for the Joint Staff, as deputy chairman of NATO’s military committee. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced in
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The Government Accountability Office has called on the Defense Department to align its data on civilian and military positions that have headquarters functions with its updated definition of departmentwide headquarters activities. GAO said in
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Maj. Gen. John Horner, former deputy director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, has been appointed as director of the Defense Department Special Access Program Central Office.
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Space agencies from Poland and China have signed an agreement to cooperate on joint research, monitor and develop new telecommunications systems to spur space cooperation between the two nations, Space News reported Monday.
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C. Dabney O’Riordan — an associate regional director at the Securities and Exchange Commission‘s Los Angeles Regional Office – has been appointed as co-chief of the asset management unit within SEC’s division of enforcement. SEC
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Lt. Gen. John Wissler, head of the Marine Corps Forces Command, said the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps have committed to deploy a marine expeditionary unit to the Asia Pacific to patrol the region, DoDBuzz
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NASA has selected nine informal education organizations across seven states to receive grants with a total worth of $10 million in an effort to inspire the next generation of scientists, innovators and explorers. The
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The Government Accountability Office has called on the Internal Revenue Service to document how IRS prioritizes information technology funding and change its investment performance information reporting. The GAO said Wednesday it has
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