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
Matthew Solomon is set to depart from the Securities and Exchange Commission as the chief litigation counsel for SEC’s enforcement division in early December. Solomon has overseen the division’s litigation program since September
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Royal Navy Commodore Andrew Burns has taken command of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command’s Task Force 50 in the Arabian Gulf during a change-of-command ceremony held onboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft
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Trae Stephens, a principal at Peter Thiel’s venture capital fund Founders Fund, has joined the transition team of President-elect Donald Trump for the Defense Department, Space News reported Friday. Jeff Foust writes
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The Government Accountability Office has recommended the National Nuclear Security Administration develop new standards for program management functions and a training program for program managers. GAO said Monday it found a lack of policies
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The U.S. Navy has concluded weapon load tests for Lockheed Martin-built F-35B onboard the USS America amphibious assault ship as part of the aircraft’s third developmental test phase. The Patuxent River Integrated Test Force assigned to Air Test and Evaluation
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The Navy Installations Command has highlighted in a new survey what it sees as benefits of an automated range management system to the military branch’s warfighters. The survey covered criteria such as
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NASA has set up a test version of an interim cryogenic propulsion stage with a stand at the space agency’s Huntsville, Alabama-based Marshall Space Flight Center in preparation for the hardware’s tests. The ICPS
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The U.S. Air Force has decided to conduct the military branch’s F-16 pilot training mission at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico temporarily in an effort to address a shortage of
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The General Services Administration’s 18FÂ organization has produced a new guidebook that contains resources and instructions on how to develop agile software, open source software and modular contracting methods. Mark Headd and Robin
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The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Aviation Administration have kicked off a drone detection research around Denver as part of an effort to explore technologies the agencies believe could help detect unmanned
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