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. Customs and Border Protection has begun the performance tests for the General Atomics-built Predator B unmanned aircraft system at a demonstration set to take place at a civilian airport in Texas.
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Andrew McCabe, formerly associate deputy director at FBI, has been named the new deputy director of the bureau. McCabe will succeed Mark Giuliano, who has retired after a 28-year service with the
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The Commerce Department’s data service has launched a new public-private partnership project intended to help data scientists and programmers gain access to the agency’s open data. The Commerce Data Usability Project aims
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The Defense Department will collaborate with researchers from the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct studies on the Zika virus, DoD News reported Wednesday. Cheryl Pellerin writes DoD personnel with
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Brig. Gen. Glen VanHerck, director of operations for Air Force Global Strike Command at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, has been promoted to the rank of major general, Air Force Times
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The U.S. Air Force is set to transport two Lockheed Martin-built F-35Â fighter jets from Luke Air Force Base to the U.K. for a series of British air shows in the summer, Reuters
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The Government Accountability Office has called on the departments of Defense, Energy and Health and Human Services to develop a guidance meant to inform research participants on inherently governmental functions. GAO said
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The U.S. Army will begin to offer a graduate-level certificate program in cybersecurity on Feb. 10 to all Aberdeen Proving Ground engineers and scientists in an effort to equip them with cyber
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The U.S. Navy has conducted underwater demonstrations on a fresh common control system with an unmanned vehicle at the Puget Sound, Washington-based Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport. The system transmitted pre-planned missions
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The Office of Management and Budget plans to release a draft policy that will block federal agencies’ new contracts for the procurement of mobile devices and services, Federal News Radio reported Monday.
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