NASA has scheduled the launch of two new sounding-rocket missions to take place in 2018 as the space agency aims to explore coronal nanoflares and escaping atoms. The Heliophysics Technology and Instrument Development for Science program
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The North Atlantic Council has approved the requests of Israel and four other non-NATO nations to establish diplomatic missions in the alliance’s Brussels headquarters, Defense News reported Thursday. Barbara Opall-Rome writes a statement
More Some government and commercial security experts who took part in a Small Business Administration-hosted panel discussion Monday said that small businesses should implement programs to protect their critical assets from cyber threats, FedTech Magazine reported Tuesday.
More The Congressional Budget Office Director estimates that the passage of the House Armed Services Committee’s fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill would reduce the Defense Department‘s net direct spending by up to $206
More The Office of Management and Budget has announced plans to appoint a shared services policy officer that will work to develop and implement government-wide rules on administrative shared services. OMB Director Shaun
More Rupert Warner, program manager of supplier diversity at the U.S. Postal Service, has touted the role of the agency’s supply chain diversity outreach in helping to fulfill its requirements, Federal News Radio
More The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a new draft publication that proposes to incorporate security concepts into the systems engineering stage of cyber-physical systems in an effort to protect
More National Intelligence Director James Clapper has said the Islamic State militant group organization has the mechanism and resources to carry out terror attacks in the U.S. in a manner similar to those in Paris
More The Federal Aviation Administration will form a broad-based drone advisory committee to provide insights on unmanned aircraft system integration challenges. The FAA said Wednesday that the committee will act as a long-term spinoff of the stakeholder-based and temporary UAS
More The Air Force Materiel Command will set up a team within the Air Force Research Laboratory as part of its Strategic Development Planning initiative in support of the Defense Department’s Third Offset
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