The House Armed Services Committee released its draft fiscal 2020 defense policy bill directing the comptroller general to report on the Department of Defense’s electronic warfare and electromagnetic threat mitigation efforts, C4ISRNET
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Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, director of the U.S. Air Force’s F-35 Integration Office, has said the branch needs more than 1,100 airmen to maintain F-35 fighter jets in order to achieve initial operating
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A provision in a Congressional defense bill seeks to create a special body in charge of communications technologies that U.S. leaders would use during nuclear crises, National Journal reported Tuesday. Rachel Oswald writes
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The 2012 Defense Authorization Act calls for the Federal Aviation Administration to establish six new testing sites for unmanned aerial systems, according to Defense Systems. The act allots at least $1 billion for UAS activities.
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The Federal Acquisition Institute is set to receive defense authorization bill measures targeted toward the civilian acquisition workforce, according to a Federal News Radio report. The report said that the FAI Improvement
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The head of the National Security Agency said last month that playing offense in cyberspace is challenging because the current strategy focuses primarily on defense. “They find a vulnerability, they penetrate the
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Among the many areas fully funded in the omnibus spending package is the Military Health System‘s information technology systems, with $1.4 billion allotted for fiscal year 2012. At the same time, the
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Congress has thrown a wrinkle into the federal government’s planned-consolidation of federal data centers by putting the Pentagon‘s own consolidation plans on hold. In November, the Defense Department said in a report
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Leaders of the Armed Services Committees from both the House and Senate completed their conference on the defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2012, Senate Committee Chairman Carl Levin‘s office (D-Mich.) announced
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The Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012 passed Thursday by a 93-7 vote with a provision requiring contractors to monitor their supply chain. The amendment, sponsored by
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