President Barack Obama has set the next military pay raise at 1.6 percent for 2017 which will take effect on Jan. 1, Military Times reported Wednesday. Leo Shane writes Obama wrote a
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The Commerce Department will launch a national technology challenge to produce open-source port information-sharing platforms designed to support local seaports and relevant stakeholders. The competition will require teams to create port community system prototypes that
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The U.S. Navy and G-W Management Services have begun construction work on a new operations facility at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland in support of test operations for unmanned systems, virtual
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Navy Rear Adm. Vincent Griffith, logistics operations director of the Defense Logistics Agency, has said DLA and the defense industry should collaborate to establish business practices that seek to manage sustainment costs
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Howard Shelanski, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has said retrospective reviews of existing regulations have resulted in cost savings of approximately $37 billion over five years. Shelanki wrote
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A new audit from the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General says the Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal and U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity’s firm-fixed‑price contract awards complied with federal rules. DoD’s IG reviewed
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office has found there is limited use of public-private partnerships in the management and disposal of underutilized government real property. GAO said Tuesday General Services Administration officials stated GSA reviews public-private partnerships
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The Office of Management and Budget is looking for an information technology professional to support OMB’s category management efforts for approximately $50 billion in annual IT investments across the government. The chosen candidate will
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The U.S. Army has launched a new office that aims to expedite the development and delivery of technologies designed to help address combatant commanders’ immediate, near-term and mid-term needs. The service branch said Wednesday its Rapid Capabilities
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency supported a University of Colorado-Boulder research team that discovered an approach on how to synthesize ultrathin materials at room temperature under the agency’s Local Control of Materials Synthesis program. DARPA said Wednesday the
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