U.S. Cyber Command seeks a procurement budget increase and sunset date extesion in order to implement multiyear contracting efforts, FCW reported Thursday.
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Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has released a memo that lays out the Defense Department’s plan to establish by 2020 a new “space force” that would serve as the country’s sixth service branch,
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The General Services Administration plans to begin the work of establishing centers of excellence at a second agency in efforts to accelerate information technology modernization efforts across the government, Federal News Radio reported Thursday.
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Alan Thomas, commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, has said the board that oversees the Technology Modernization Fund plans to award the next round of funding for information technology upgrades at
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Conference members of both chambers of Congress have reached a compromise to combine the $674B defense spending bill with a measure that would appropriate fiscal 2019 funds for the departments of Health and
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The U.S. Army has initiated an international research program for moving target defense technology, able to protect information in computer systems from potential threats.The Army Research Laboratory said Sept. 6 researchers from
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An innovation group at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas has built a solar-powered communications system designed for facility operations, security and civil engineering use, among other applications.
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A new Congressional Budget Office analysis has found that performing a common type of maintenance work on the U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles-class attack submarines (SSN-688) at the service’s public shipyards is more expensive
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The Government Accountability Office noted in an audit report published Wednesday that from 2013 to 2017, the rate at which the Defense Department conducted competitions when procuring products or services went down
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The Office of Management and Budget has administered a symposium encouraging public and private sector entities to develop ways to retrain government employees as part of the President’s Management Agenda, FCW reported
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