The Department of Defense has awarded MP Materials a $35 million contract to establish a facility for processing heavy rare earth elements on the company’s Mountain Pass mining site in California. DOD
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its partners advise organizations to implement protective measures against an advanced persistent threat from Iran’s government. The MuddyWater APT group — also known as Earth
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The Department of Homeland Security has been tasked to coordinate domestic preparedness efforts as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine develops. President Biden gave this task to ensure federal unity and readiness
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Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said his team at the Department of Justice’s National Security Division will implement a new strategy for countering nation-state threats. The new threat-driven strategy will focus on
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Deltek’s GovWin IQ service tracked and tabulated U.S. federal government contract spending over the course of the 2021 fiscal year and has determined a $629 billion total, including a defense spending sum
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The Internal Revenue Service has dismissed its plans to require taxpayers to use a third-party facial recognition service to register for online accounts. Taxpayers can now create online accounts without the use
More Eric Nelson, formerly the State Department’s ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, will serve as an associate director at the Germany-based George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. The ambassador-in-residency will share
More Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., has presented a new bill that would establish a Federal Trade Commission bureau dedicated to monitoring the digital services offered by companies online. The Digital Services Oversight and
More NASA and Axiom Space are scheduled Monday to offer a virtual preview of the company’s first mission to send four private astronauts to the International Space Station under an agreement signed in
More The Office of Naval Research has awarded Saab’s U.S. subsidiary a potential four-year, $15.1 million contract to design and demonstrate an all-digital radar technology prototype. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Saab Inc. will
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