The Federal Aviation Administration has completed its work to declare six unmanned aircraft test sites in the U.S. as operational by giving that distinction to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. Virginia Tech received
MoreKevin Thurm, a former deputy secretary of Health and Human Services before joining Citigroup, has returned to HHS as the agency’s senior counselor. The 25-year public and private sector veteran will work
MoreSylvia Burns, a 20-year federal government veteran and acting chief information officer at the Interior Department since March, has been appointed to the CIO role on a full-time basis. Rhea Suh – assistant interior
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Valerie Parlave, formerly a deputy assistant director at the FBIâs Washington Field Office, has been named executive assistant director of the agencyâs human resources branch. Parlave will oversee the FBI’s human capital requirements, human resources, training
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NASA has chosen 23 out of 32 proposals from U.S. small businesses for a program aimed at helping the agency build new platforms to support future space missions. The selected teams of
MoreA consortium of global satellite operators will collaborate with the U.S. Defense Department in a program that aims to protect space assets through intelligence sharing. The partnership allows the Space Data Association
MoreGrace Bochenek, formerly chief technology officer at the U.S. Army Materiel Command, has joined the Energy Department as director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory. She will be responsible for the daily operations
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The U.S. Energy Department has launched an online repository of peer-reviewed manuscripts and scholarly articles that contain data from agency-backed science projects. DOE’s Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science website is
MoreThe CIA has rolled out an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform designed to facilitate collaboration among 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, Nextgov reported Friday. Frank Konkel writes the
MoreThe Small Business Administration has announced that government agencies have awarded contracts worth more than $83 billion combined to small businesses in 2013, Federal News Radio reported Monday. SBA said agencies fulfilled their
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