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 U.S. Army has halted its effort to upgrade the ergonomics and accuracy of its M4 carbine assault rifles after it reviewed proposals from industry, Army Times reported Sunday. Kyle Jahner writes the M4A1+ initiative
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The House has passed a bill that seeks to allot $3.48 billion in funds to secure and maintain of the Capitol complex. Lawmakers voted 233-175 to approve the fiscal year 2017 Legislative Branch Appropriations
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U.S. Army Research Laboratory chemist Sasha Teymorian has started a study to identify cellular injuries sustained by warfighters through the use of synthesized gold nanoclusters. The Army said Thursday Teymorian, also a postdoctoral research fellow at
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The Government Accountability Office has called on Congress to require the U.S. Navy to change the way the service buys frigates and hold funds for Littoral Combat Ship acquisitions in fiscal year 2017.
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A Government Accountability Office report indicates a decline in the Defense Department’s sole-source contracts worth more than $20 million that are awarded to small businesses under the 8(a) program. The number of DoD 8(a) sole-source contract awards
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The U.S. Army has redesigned its career management portal in a move to help soldiers, officers and Army civilians explore career opportunities according to their military skills, Army Times reported Thursday. Michelle
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The technology and evaluation center of the Defense Department’s Computer/Electronics Accommodations Program has reached its 20th year of providing assistive technologies to individuals looking to address accessibility challenges. CAPTEC is the federal
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The U.S. Navy has transported its newest oceanographic survey vessel to Port Everglades near Florida to its construction site Pascagoula, Mississippi in the ship’s first voyage. The Naval Oceanographic Office’s civilian survey detachment assessed USNS
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Cord Chase, formerly senior adviser for cyber and national security at the Office of Management and Budget, has joined the Office of Personnel Management as the agency’s first chief information security officer,
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Maj. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, commanding general of the U.S. Army‘s Cyber Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon in Georgia, has been named chief of staff for the U.S. Cyber Command, the Defense
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