The Senate on Monday voted 99-0 to confirm Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as the current administration’s secretary of state, Reuters reported. Rubio’s confirmation came just hours after President Donald Trump was sworn
Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch serves as military deputy for the office of assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition at the Defense Department. The 32-year Air Force veteran oversees research and development, production,
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NASA has awarded $30,000 in prize money to each of the five teams that won in the third ground tournament round of a $5 million competition that seeks to promote the development
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NASA has established a new virtual institute at Ames Research Center in California that aims to promote the development of small spacecraft systems and facilitate communication on such systems among government agencies,
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Michael Horowitz, inspector general at the Justice Department, has said that IGs would not be able to meet the congressional deadline for the first reports in November due to a timing anomaly in
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The U.S. Army plans to deploy the Light Combat All-Terrain Vehicle in 2019 as a replacement for the Humvee, the Army said Thursday. Staff Sgt. Corinna Baltos writes the service branch will field a
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Nick Szechenyi, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has said Japan has requested $51 billion in defense budget for fiscal year 2017 in response to regional security threats,
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The Environmental Protection Agency has selected the North American Association for Environmental Education to lead a program that seeks to provide EE training and support to environmental educators in the U.S. under a five-year cooperative
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The U.S. Air Force assumed ownership of the Space Surveillance Telescope from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency during a transition ceremony held Tuesday in New Mexico. DARPA said Wednesday SST is designed
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A Defense Department official has said that DoD plans to expand public-private partnerships in other defense infrastructure areas in addition to the privatization of military family housing, DoD News reported Wednesday. Karen
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The Interior Department’s office of inspector general has found lapses in DOI’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program when it comes to safeguarding high-value information technology systems from cyber vulnerabilities. OIG said in
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