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
Rick Burt, formerly chief safety officer within NASA’s safety and mission assurance directorate, has been named head of that directorate at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Burt succeeds Steve Cash, who retired after
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The Air Force Space Command has released details of the newly implemented Space Mission Force in a white paper posted on the command’s website. The white paper shows two main functions of the
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The U.S. Navy is considering the potential use of a robotic system patterned after the sucker-headed fish Remora to deploy future underwater drones in the sea, Defense One reported Sunday. Rear Adm. Michael
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The General Services Administration‘s 18F digital services team has received Federal Risk and Authorization Program Ready status for a cloud collaboration website the group built for government use. 18F said Monday it began to work toward the FedRAMP
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Vice Adm. Michael Gilday has formally taken command of the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet during a change-of-command ceremony Thursday at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland. Gilday, formerly director of
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The General Services Administration and the Customs and Border Protection have led the opening ceremony for a pedestrian processing facility and a transit center near the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry in California.
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The U.S. Army looks to decommission nine long-range surveillance groups from active duty in 2016 as part of an effort to reorganize the armed forces, Stars and Stripes reported Friday. Alex Horton writes
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Aircrew members and aviators of the New York Army National Guard based in Rochester participate in the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Teams Joint Readiness Training Center exercise as they prepare to deploy in
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The U.S. Army has started to polish the service’s electronic warfare tactics, techniques and procedures in an effort to help maintain battlefield operations if a system malfunctions, Defense News reported Friday. Jen Judson writes Col.
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NASA is set to kick off the final design and construction phases for the next Mars rover after the space agency completed the review process and development milestone for the vehicle. The
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