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
NASA has introduced a wide field infrared survey telescope to help researchers further space exploration missions and study the evolution of the universe. The telescope will serve as NASA’s major astrophysics observatory
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The U.S. Navy has completed the first eight standards of a series the service branch intends to help regulate and sustain the service’s systems and programs in a contested cyber space. The Information Technology/Information
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The Government Accountability Office has called on the Defense Department to overhaul the way it oversees the defense agencies’ supply chain reporting tasks in an effort to help minimize risks. GAO said
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Brig. Gen. Scott Kindsvater, assistant deputy commander for U.S. Air Forces Central Command, has been named deputy commander for operations and intelligence with the unit tasked to combat the Islamic State militant
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Charles Armstrong has departed the role of chief information officer for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, Fedscoop reported Friday. Greg Otto writes Armstrong aided the CBP in its effort to transition its applications to
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Gen. Mark Welsh, chief of staff for the U.S. Air Force, has called on lawmakers to either authorize a shift of maintainers to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter or grant funds to train additional
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has developed a new neural-recording device built to repurpose stent technology to gather neural data in a less invasive manner. DARPA’s stentrode is designed for delivery via catheter
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Kim Luke, formerly a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has joined the Office of Management and Budget as the information technology category manager, FCW reported Wednesday. Mark Rockwell writes Luke will oversee
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The former Navy Information Dominance Forces will now be known as the Naval Information Forces as part of an effort to align missions. Rear Adm. Matthew Kohler, commander of the Naval Information
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U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott has said President Barack Obama plans to appoint a federal chief information security officer within the next three months, Federal Times reported Tuesday. Aaron Boyd writes the
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