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 Office of Personnel Management has launched an online cybersecurity education program for federal employees and their families in a move to help bolster the cybersecurity workforce, FCW reported Friday. Chase Gunter
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The U.S. Navy and Agriculture Department have marked the launch of an alternative energy program with the deployment of the USS John C. Stennis carrier strike group during a Naval Air Station North
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has kicked off a national simulation-based robotics competition in an effort to help further the development of agile robots. The Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation
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The U.S. Air Force’s first cyberspace weapon system has achieved full operational capability status to function as the first line of defense for all network traffic into the service’s information network. The
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The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council has released the findings of its recent effort to gather feedback from industry, government and academia on how to build up the nation’s
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The U.S. Army has enlisted the help of the Defense Information Systems Agency for the service branch’s effort to migrate to new enterprise resource planning programs as part of a potential $846 million contract, C4ISR
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The Defense Department has released a new directive intended to help mitigate the impact of climate change on the U.S. military, the Federation of American Scientists reported Tuesday. Steven Aftergood writes the
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The National Science Foundation has awarded $5 million in grants to Indiana University, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to establish a cybersecurity
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The Government Accountability Office has called on federal agencies to reform their assessment processes for federally leased vehicles in order to help reduce underutilized fleets. GAO said in a report released Thursday that
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. have met with other military commanders to discuss strategies on how to conquer the Islamic State organization, DoD News reported
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