The chairmen and ranking members of House and Senate Armed Services Committees have asked the Federal Communications Commission to retract its approval of Ligado Networks’ application saying the company’s proposal poses a threat to the country’s GPS capabilities, economy and national security.

President Trump intends to nominate Matthew Donovan, a three-decade U.S. Air Force veteran, to serve as undersecretary of personnel and readiness at the Department of Defense, the White House announced Wednesday.

Japan is establishing its own space force as part of the country’s air force, The National Insterest reported Tuesday. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the new space domain mission unit will begin operations in April as part of the country’s air self-defense force and would collaborate with the U.S. Space Force.

The General Services Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission have begun their information technology modernization partnership through the Centers of Excellence program, FedScoop reported Tuesday.

Gen. Jay Raymond, head of the U.S. Space Command, has said that preparing for space warfare and preventing conflict in space will be the command’s first area of focus, C4ISRnet reported Tuesday.

Maj. Audricia Harris, a spokesperson for the Defense Department, has said that DoD takes national security threats seriously and works to update its cyber defense approaches, CNN reported Tuesday.

The Defense Department is considering security, cost, interoperability and user friendliness as key factors in the procurement of a cloud-based information technology platform, DoD News reported Thursday. Dana White, Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, told reporters Thursday the department will conduct a full and open competition for its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure acquisition …

The Trump administration has halted plans to survey multiple U.S. contractors that would have been part of a broader defense industrial base review, Defense News reported Wednesday. The report said the U.S. government now intends to use information that federal agencies already gather instead of seeking proprietary data from defense …

Lawmakers have incorporated a provision that would fund federal agencies’ efforts to update information technology systems as part of the final version of the proposed defense authorization plan for fiscal year 2018, The Hill reported Thursday. A Senate Armed Services Committee spokesperson confirmed to the publication that the Modernizing Government …

The U.S. government has rolled out a new website designed to help individuals check whether their personal data has been compromised following the Office of Personnel and Management breach, Nextgov reported Friday. Aliya Sternstein writes the Pentagon-hosted OPM Verify tool is developed for website users to match their data with …