Australia and Japan have started efforts to build up their amphibious forces in support of their deterrence strategies amid China’s aggression in the South China Sea, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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The State Department has discovered after an internal cyber defenses review discovered the agency’s Consular Consolidated Database could be compromised because of security gaps in the agency’s system, ABC News reported Thursday. Mike Levine and Justin
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The Federal Aviation Administration has expanded the use of an online registration system to owners of small unmanned aerial systems that use UAS for public, commercial and other operations other than as model aircraft.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to test a programming language meant to help biological engineers design DNA-encoded circuits. NIST said Friday the agency-led
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Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, commander of the U.S. Navy 10th Fleet and Fleet Cyber Command, will be nominated to replace Vice Adm. Ted Branch as the deputy chief naval officer for information warfare, USNI News
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The U.S. Intelligence Community has unveiled a website aimed at job seekers who are interested in launching a career in the IC. IntelligenceCareers.gov features videos and interactive tools designed to educate individuals
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U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Sean Filipowski, senior military adviser for cyber and defense undersecretary for policy, has been appointed deputy director of the signal intelligence directorate at the National Security Agency.
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The General Services Administration has restarted its search for a new Transportation Security Administration headquarters after a federal court rescinded GSA’s selection of Victory Center in Alexandria to house TSA, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. TSA had initially planned to
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will lead an industry consortium tasked to build a manufacturing innovation institute for functional fabrics under a partnership agreement with the Defense Department. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter
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Manufacturing in the U.S. under President Barack Obama has continued to progress in terms of job availability and investments in public-private partnerships, the White House said Friday. National Economic Council Director Jeffrey Zients
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