President Barack Obama has nominated Vice Adm. Dixon Smith as deputy chief of naval operations for fleet and readiness at the U.S. Navy and Rear Adm. Mary Jackson as commander of the Navy Installations
The Government Accountability Office has called on the Office of Management and Budget and the Treasury Department to require complete documentation of controls and processes from agencies as they implement the Digital
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The General Services Administration has awarded eight U.S. carriers a set of air travel contracts to provide discounted fares for federal government officials. Carriers will offer pre-negotiated and firm-fixed-price airfare rates to government
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The Commerce Department has launched a new federal advisory committee that will work to propose ways for U.S. exporters to access trade capital. The Trade Finance Advisory Council will advise the commerce secretary
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The Defense Technical Information Center has released a new report that describes how changes to the conflict and warfare landscape would alter the operational approaches the future Joint Force must adopt. The
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Army Gen. John Nicholson Jr., commander of the U.S. Forces Afghanistan, has highlighted significant reductions in Islamic State group-held territories in Afghanistan since U.S. troops there received counterterrorism authority in January, DoD
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Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen has said DoD needs to build a robust partnership with companies in order to maintain an agile cybersecurity infrastructure, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Meredith Somers writes Halvorsen
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The Government Accountability Office has released a new report that indicates fragmentation in how the stakeholder organizations within the Defense Department, White House, the intelligence community and civilian agencies manage space acquisitions.
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Tyrone Grandison will depart his role as the deputy chief data officer of the Commerce Department on Aug. 5 after more than a year in the position. Grandison wrote in a blog post
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The FBI has kicked off the hiring process for the bureau’s first senior-level data scientist as part of an effort to help address the growing cyber threat landscape. The chosen candidate will advise the cyber
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The U.S. Navy and its counterpart in South Korea will continue to jointly conduct oceanographic activities under an extended memorandum of agreement between the two services. U.S. Navy Oceanographer Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet signed the agreement’s
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