John Plumb, principal director and chief of government relations at the Aerospace Corporation, has been nominated to serve as the assistant secretary of defense for space policy, the Senate Armed Services Committee
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NASA is deploying a SpaceX Dragon resupply craft from the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 21, bringing with it scientific experiments fostered in the station’s microgravity environment. The spacecraft will touch down off
More Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio has been designated as the 17th software factory of the Department of the Air Force. Even before the new designation, Hangar 18 is
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Joe Bryan, senior adviser on climate at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, has been appointed the Department of Defense’s chief sustainability officer responsible for enforcing federal sustainment requirements. The Pentagon
More Reps. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., and Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., have asked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to provide information on efforts to further advance the adoption of multifactor authentication to protect federal
More Raj Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said one of the service’s top priorities this fiscal year is delivering cloud and data capabilities to
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Log4j is popular Java-based software intended to assemble a log to troubleshoot problems or record data. In November 2021, users noticed that there was an error in the program, which impacted almost a
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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded the University of California San Diego a $20.34 million contract to continue developing improvements on unmanned systems and in situ ocean sampling systems. The
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Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman of the Federal Telecommunications Commission, has circulated a notice of proposed changes to how telecommunications carriers report customer proprietary network information breaches to their clients. The proposal aims to
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has partnered with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to help advance offshore wind energy technologies that do not harm underwater biodiversity and promote cooperative
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