Laurie Leshin, the president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will serve as the new director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of the California Institute of Technology, effective May 16. She
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President Trump announced on Wednesday that he’s selected Robert O’Brien to be the new National Security Adviser for the White House.
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Dina Powell, deputy national security adviser to President Donald Trump, intends to leave the White House as she plans to return to her home in New York early next year, The Washington
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Defense Secretary James Mattis has called off a plan to stop the military use of certain cluster bombs by the end of 2018, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The policy change would
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President Donald Trump has decided to designate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism for “repeatedly†backing assassinations overseas and other terrorist acts, CNN reported Tuesday. Trump said Monday during a public
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The Senate approved Mark Esper, vice president of government relations at Raytheon, to serve as U.S. Army secretary through an 89-6 vote Wednesday, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday. His confirmation came four months after President
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Veteran national security policy guru John Rood is a leading candidate to serve Defense Secretary James Mattis as the next undersecretary of defense for policy, U.S. defense officials said, reported The Washington
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Melissa Hathaway, a senior adviser at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, has said President Donald Trump’s cybersecurity executive order will require 14 new reports on various cyber-related areas, BankInfoSecurity reported Thursday. The former
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President Donald Trump will nominate John Sullivan, a partner at Washington, D.C.-based law firm Mayer Brown, as deputy secretary of the State Department, Politico reported Tuesday. Cristiano Lima writes Sullivan will serve as second-in-command
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President-elect Donald Trump is set to nominate Dan Coats, a former senator from Indiana, as the next director of national intelligence, Reuters reported Thursday. Steve Holland writes the official announcement of Coats’ nomination
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