NASA’s Stennis Space Center has launched an autonomous systems payload aboard Sidus Space’s LizzieSat-1, or LS-1, small satellite. Carried into space on the SpaceX Transporter 10 rideshare mission, the Autonomous Satellite Technology for
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. James Glynn has been nominated to serve as the service branch’s next deputy commandant for manpower and reserve affairs. Glynn, the deputy commanding general of Training and
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President Biden intends to nominate Renee Wegrzyn, vice president of business development at biotechnology company Ginkgo Bioworks, to be the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Wegrzyn’s
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is setting up two new offices under the Division of Corporation Finance that will be tasked with reviewing filings by crypto assets and life sciences companies. SEC
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The departments of Commerce and Defense have entered into an agreement on achieving basic space situational awareness and coordinating civil and commercial space traffic management. The Department of Commerce said Friday it
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The U.S. Navy’s future expeditionary fast transport ship has passed its acceptance trials and unmanned logistics prototype tests conducted by the service branch and its manufacturer Austal USA. Naval Sea Systems Command
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HII‘s Ingalls Shipbuilding subsidiary has begun fabrication of the U.S. Navy’s 15th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship at its facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The shipyard commenced work on the future USS
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Steve Thur, a nearly two-decade veteran of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been named assistant administrator for oceanic and atmospheric research. He will assume his new position in early October
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The Department of Homeland Security is launching a large-scale recruitment initiative aimed at hiring technologists with backgrounds in product management and customer experience to help transform and modernize service delivery across the
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U.S. Central Command is planning to establish a new facility in Saudi Arabia that will test new military technologies designed to counter threats posed by unmanned aerial vehicles, NBC reported Wednesday. The
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The National Science Foundation has selected 16 multidisciplinary teams to develop secure 5G platforms designed to facilitate communication between the U.S. government and critical infrastructure operators as part of an accelerator program.
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