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 Federal Communications Commission plans to develop new regulatory frameworks for business data services and real-time text messaging services for citizens with disabilities at its meeting in April. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has gathered industry participants at a workshop meant to review the proposed changes to the NIST cybersecurity framework, FedScoop reported Thursday. Greg Otto writes that
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Boeing has proposed a new schedule for the production and delivery of the KC-46 tanker aircraft following troubles the company encountered during the development of the first four aircraft. The Government Accountability Office
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NASA has begun work to recover its Kepler satellite after the agency declared it to be in emergency mode about 36 hours prior to a communications session, Space News reported Saturday. Jeff Foust writes
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Dimitri Kusnezov, chief scientist at the Energy Department‘s National Nuclear Security Administration, has been nominated to the role of deputy administrator for defense programs at NNSA. President Barack Obama announced Kusnezov’s nomination
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The General Services Administration‘s 18F organization has assembled repositories that contain open source code on its GitHub account in an effort to help federal government employees reuse the code for their work and
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have patented a method for the development of nanoscale spherical capsules intended for drug delivery operations. Team members created the spherical capsules as artificial versions
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The General Services Administration has launched a new initiative to aid companies in their efforts to do business with the government. GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth wrote in a blog post published
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The Defense Advanced Research Program Agency has demonstrated an optical sense-and-avoid system as part of an effort to allow manned and unmanned aircraft to avoid mid-air collisions with other aircraft. DARPA said
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The Energy Department and the government of Kazakhstan have inked a new agreement for the use of an alternative energy source in the latter country in an effort to help reduce emissions
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