The Defense Contract Management Agency is in the process of hiring personnel for its network of “centers of excellence” that aim to give procurement and contracting officers guidance on what constitutes as a commercial
A day before his scheduled meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said that his country is looking into forming military ties with “10, 20, 30
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President Barack Obama announced Nov. 1 that the White House has agreed to support Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s calls to counter a resurgent al Qaeda in Iraq, Reuters reported Nov. 1.
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Robert Gates, defense secretary from 2006 to 2011, has been nominated as national president-elect of the Boy Scouts of America and an executive committee member for the organization’s national executive board. The former
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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has sent its experts to Syria to oversee the destruction of the country’s chemical weapons production and mixing equipment by Nov. 1, Reuters reported
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The Government Accountability Office has recommended the General Services Administration take a more transparent and strategic approach to its high-value leases, Federal News Radio reported Oct. 25. Michael O’Connell writes a GAO audit
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Luke McCormack, a former chief information officer for the Department of Homeland Security‘s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, has been nominated to return to DHS as its CIO. He held the CIO role
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The Defense Information Systems Agency has migrated more than 10,000 staff email accounts in the Office of Secretary of Defense and 2,000 Southern Command users to the agency’s private, cloud-based email system. DISA
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Peggy Sherry, formerly chief financial officer at the Department of Homeland Security since April 2012, has been appointed deputy commissioner for operations support at the Internal Revenue Service. She will officially start in
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Andrew McCabe, a 17-year FBI veteran and formerly assistant director of the counterterrorism division, has been promoted to executive assistant director of the bureau’s national security branch. McCabe was certified by the national intelligence
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Beth Cobert was confirmed as the next deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget by the Senate Wednesday night in a voice vote, Federal News Radio reports. Jason Miller writes
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