National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo has said NGA has initiated talks with Congress to strike a public-private partnership in an effort to facilitate the exchange of the agency’s data archives for industry’s
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A U.S. Navy-led international team has deployed buoys in the Arctic ocean to collect weather and oceanographic data as part of the International Arctic Buoy Program. The U.S. National Ice Center launched Air Expendable Ice
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NASA has picked five research studies that seek to analyze investment drivers in the space economy and identify new commercial space development opportunities. The agency said Wednesday the five proposals were selected
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President Donald Trump has nominated Walter Copan, president and CEO of IP Engineering Group, to serve as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and as commerce undersecretary for standards and
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NASA has begun to evaluate proposals for future missions to Saturn, as the Cassini spacecraft performs its final approach to the planet, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. The space agency said Thursday it expects Cassini
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President Donald Trump intends to nominate Paul Trombino III, president of civil engineering company McClure Engineering, as administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, the White House announced Friday. Trombino previously spent more than
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Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan has signed a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement with Kuwait official Jamal Al Jalawi to establish a legal structure for information-sharing arrangements in support of customs laws. McAleenan represented
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The Government Accountability Office has called on Congress to consider a possible extension to the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act‘s data center optimization and consolidation provisions in order to provide federal agencies more
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NASA has started to examine multiple options to reduce the cost of a lander mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa after the agency postponed a call for spacecraft instruments, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Curt
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President Donald Trump has set the average pay raise for federal civilian employees at 1.9 percent and the average salary increase for military personnel at 2.1 percent effective Jan. 1, 2018, Federal News
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