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Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commanding general of the U.S. Army‘s XVIII Airborne Corps, will assume leadership of the country’s military campaign against the Islamic State militant organization in August, Army Times reported Tuesday. Townsend will succeed Lt. Gen.
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The White House has introduced a strategy that outlines four initiatives designed to help federal agencies recruit, retain, develop and expand the number of professionals that work to protect government networks from
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The Dallas police department has employed a robot developed by Northrop Grumman subsidiary Remotec to resolve a standoff crisis that involved a shooting suspect, Fusion reported Tuesday. Elmo Keep writes Remotec’s Andros F-5 model carried
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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the implementation of a national biodefense strategy bill could amount to nearly $2 million from 2017 through 2021. The National Biodefense Strategy Act of 2016
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) has introduced new legislation that looks to codify the Presidential Innovation Fellows program into a long-term project under General Services Administration management, Fedscoop reported Monday. Kayla Nick-Kearney writes the TALENT Act
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The General Services Administration has begun its search for a new Technology Transformation Service commissioner who will work to manage the organization and the agencies it supports. GSA said Monday the new commissioner will lead
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The Defense Department has requested $20 million in funds from Congress to counter drone threats posed by the Islamic State organization in addition to the existing $189.7 million budget to combat hostile networks, Defense
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A Congressional Budget Office report shows the federal government’s budget deficit for the first nine months of fiscal 2016 reached $397 billion, up $81 billion from the shortfall recorded for the same period in fiscal
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The State Department‘s newly-established Global Engagement Center wants to create a global network of third party partners to support its messaging campaign against the Islamic State militant organization, C4ISR & Networks reported Monday. Meagen LaGraffe,
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said the North Atlantic Council has cleared a plan to deploy in 2017 multinational battalions to the eastern part that marks the alliance’s border with Russia, DoD
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