John Plumb, assistant secretary for space policy at the Department of Defense, said Kathleen Hicks, DOD’s deputy secretary and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s 2023 Wash100, is overseeing a review of how
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Lael Brainard is stepping down as vice chair and member of the Federal Reserve Board on Feb. 20 to serve as director of the National Economic Council responsible for providing advice to
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The Department of Defense, NASA and the General Services Administration amended the Federal Acquisition Regulation to accelerate government agencies’ payment deadline to small business contractors to 15 days. In a notice published
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The Department of the Air Force has selected local utility services provider Eversource to implement a commercial energy delivery and usage model at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. The Energy-as-a-Service pilot
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BAE Systems and Leonardo UK have been approved by the U.S. government to develop an aircraft survivability suite. Intended to improve aircraft survivability against advanced threats, the capability will contain BAE Systems’ AN/AAR-57 Common
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Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 winner, has issued a memorandum announcing the establishment of a new task force within the Defense
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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Western countries were working to address Ukraine’s “most pressing needs” amid the Eastern European country’s increasing consumption of artillery ammunition in its fight against Russian invasion,
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Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is seeking input from nine companies providing wireless emergency alerts on how the notifications can be sent in languages other than English and Spanish. FCC said
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NASA has unveiled the crew of a privately funded astronaut mission to the International Space Station that will launch aboard SpaceX’s Dragon rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Peggy Whitson, former
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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown said the service branch intends to commit more funding in future budgets to the use of unmanned aircraft that will fly alongside with
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