President Barack Obama has nominated Vice Adm. Dixon Smith as deputy chief of naval operations for fleet and readiness at the U.S. Navy and Rear Adm. Mary Jackson as commander of the Navy Installations
The Department of Homeland Security wants to acquire technology for monitoring outgoing foreign visitors through facial and iris recognition, Nextgov reported Thursday. Aliya Sternstein writes the surveillance system is intended to be deployed
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President Barack Obama has asked federal agencies that handle export-import operations to centralize those process and work to remove redundant paperwork requests, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jack Moore writes Obama signed an
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The U.S. Air Force has started to distribute mobile devices that run Appleâs operating system across its enterprise as a replacement for Blackberry gadgets. Air Force executives have begun to transition to iOS
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The federal government, Maryland and Montgomery County have reached a partnership agreement to further build up the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, National Institute of Standards and Technology Director
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Gen. Raymond Odierno, chief of staff of the U.S. Army, has said more than 450,000 active-duty members are required for the Army to perform its duty in global conflicts, DoD Buzz
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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says a new cybersecurity framework calling for the government and private sector to collaborate on building up the country’s cyber defense infrastructure has been stood up, Homeland
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The U.S. Marine Corps has started to examine the potential uses of an unmanned security system for protecting crews. Combat Center Marines tested the Mobile Detection Assessment Response System at Camp Wilsonâs
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The Veterans Affairs Department is seeking information on a commercial on-demand data storage system intended for VAâs enterprise operations to perform business functions for agency clients. The VA issued a request for
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The Maryland Manufacturing Extension Partnership has obtained two financial grants to carry out programs that are intended to help build up skills in the state’s manufacturing industry. The nonprofit organization will implement
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The first of four U.S. Navy ships destined for NATOâs ballistic missile defense fleet reached Spain on Tuesday. The USS Donald Cook, a naval destroyer that is equipped with the Aegis combat
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