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
Reps. Bill Young (R-Fla.) and Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.) have jointly requested that the Defense Department examine alternative options to cutting its workforce by 20 percent, GovExec reported Friday. Eric Katz writes the lawmakers suggested
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The Defense Department is evaluating five potential locations in the U.S. where the agency could deploy ground-based missile interceptors. DoDâs team will work to visit each candidate site in order to gather
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The Defense Department is asking its component agencies and services to lay the groundwork for migrating to an enterprise email platform meant to help DoD centralize its service, Federal News Radio reported
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates defense and civilian agencies will spend nearly $44 billion on space launches and related activities between fiscal years 2014 and 2018. Sixty-five percent of that figure
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The National Science Foundation will allocate $25 million towards an intelligent machines research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and work in partnership with academic institutions and other organizations. Tomaso Poggio,
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has implemented initial technology guidelines for the intelligence community with the goal of standardizing the information technology infrastructure across all agencies, Federal News Radio
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MeriTalk has released the results of a new survey that shows the impact of implementing data center integration, mobility, security, big data and cloud computing technologies on federal agency networks. “The Net
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The Defense Department wants to partner with other countries and foreign companies in an effort to further the agencyâs research and development initiatives, Defense News reported Sunday. Zachary Fryer-Biggs writes DoD is
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The Office of Federal Procurement Policy wants to apply the strategic sourcing approach to acquisition training in order to centralize efforts across several agencies and further build up the acquisition workforce, Federal
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has updated its security standards for managing the identity of federal employees using mobile devices, FedScoop reported Thursday. Colby Hochmuth writes the new âFederal Information
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