President Donald Trump has appointed Robert Salesses, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, as acting secretary of the Department of Defense, DOD News reported Monday. Salesses will serve as interim DOD secretary
Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has initiated efforts to advance the addition of commercial space industry advocates to President-elect Donald Trump’s NASA transition team, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Andy Pasztor writes Charles
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Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall is set to inform Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Arizona) through a letter that developmental test flights for the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft could extend to
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A Government Accountability Office report shows that the total number of protests filed with the agency to challenge federal contract awards reached 2,789 in fiscal year 2016, a figure that represents a 6 percent
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A Defense Department memo shows that Russia is not mentioned in President-elect Donald Trump’s defense priority list that includes the development of a cybersecurity strategy, elimination of budget caps and the campaign
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Andy Ozment, assistant secretary of the office of cybersecurity and communications at the Department of Homeland Security, will resign from his post on Jan. 7, MeriTalk reported Monday. Morgan Lynch writes Danny
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A House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report says the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security spent approximately $95 million combined on 434 cell-site simulation tools that turn cellphones into
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A division of the Information Technology Industry Council has provided President-elect Donald Trump with several recommendations to help build up the cybersecurity posture of federal agencies. The IT Alliance for Public Sector asked Trump
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NASA has turned the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office into a division in response to the growth in satellite servicing demonstrations and projects as well as the need to coordinate servicing missions and
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Three Romanian nationals have been indicted on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy, identity theft and money laundering associated with a cyber fraud operation that infected more than 60,000 computers and resulted in the transmission
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Air Force Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, head of the F-35 joint program office, has said the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft has been on budget and on schedule since his office restructured
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