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
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been appointed to succeed Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker as the next chair of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council. The White House announced the rotation after the council made
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U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Dee Mewbourne, director of maritime operations at the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, has been assigned as commander of the Military Sealift Command in Norfolk, Virginia. Secretary of the
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The U.S. Army has kicked off its search for ideas on how to upgrade the Stryker mobile gun system’s sensors as part of an effort to boost the Second Cavalry Regiment in Europe,
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The Health Information Trust Alliance has issued a document meant to guide healthcare organizations on how to implement the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cybersecurity framework. HITRUST consulted the Department of
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Lt. Gen. Karen Dyson, military deputy to the assistant secretary of the Army for financial management and comptroller, has outlined the service’s focus on readiness as a priority in its fiscal year
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched a community platform for health information technology professionals to share and learn from interoperability programs in the U.S. Steven Posnack, director
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The FBI has issued a warning about a series of hacking activities against U.S. networks that it believes are conducted by sympathizers of the Islamic State militant group, Motherboard reported Tuesday. Joseph
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NASA and South Korea have forged a partnership to develop a study plan for air quality assessments as part of an effort to monitor air pollution with the use of aircraft, ground
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have tested a new method to detect Lyme disease at the
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has called for $78.7 billion in discretionary budget for the fiscal year 2017, up 4.9 percent from the fiscal 2016 level. Deltek said Tuesday VA plans to
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