The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has completed test deployment of the solar array installed on its fourth Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R series. The GOES-U solar array, which was built
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Mark Munsell, deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Data and Digital Innovation Directorate since 2021, has been appointed director of the directorate, according to a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. In this
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Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, have reintroduced legislation that tasks the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency with providing recommendations on protecting commercial satellite operators from cyberthreats. The Satellite Cybersecurity
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President Joe Biden has nominated U.S. Navy Vice Adm. William Houston as director of the Department of Energy’s Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Houston, who currently commands the Naval Submarine Forces, Submarine Force
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MITRE has joined Carnegie Mellon University’s new artificial intelligence-focused multidisciplinary research coalition. Funded by a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the AI Institute for Societal Decision Making aims to boost
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The Biden-Harris Administration has released the National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technology, which sets guidelines to ensure that U.S. technologies are safe and interoperable. Based on four guiding principles, the strategy
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The White House said it will stop implementing COVID-19 vaccination requirements for federal contractors and employees and foreign air travelers on May 11. The move will coincide with the end of the
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Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, recently laid out four steps small and medium businesses should take to protect their organizations from ransomware attacks
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The U.S. Navy achieved initial operating capability for the mine countermeasures mission package and AN/AQS-20 sonar mine detection sets installed on its littoral combat ships. The systems and sensors passed operational testing
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The U.S. Marine Corps has tested the data transmission capabilities of the Department of Defense’s next-generation satellite communications system for the MQ-25 Stingray aerial refueling drone using the UH-1Y Venom helicopter. During
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