The House Appropriations Committee’s defense subpanel has introduced a bill that would authorize $517.1 billion in discretionary spending and $58.6 billion in overseas contingency operations funds for fiscal year 2017. The committee said
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The Congressional Budget Office has added an online search tool on its website for users to find intergovernmental and private sector mandates in bills and public laws that are identified under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act. CBO
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A Federal Communications Commission task force will develop a planning framework and scorecard to support efforts by public safety agencies to shift their 911 systems to Internet Protocol-based platforms, Urgent Communications reported Tuesday. Donny Jackson writes the FCC’s Task Force
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President Barack Obama has nominated National Highway Traffic Safety Administration deputy head Blair Anderson to serve as policy undersecretary for the Transportation Department, the NHTSA’s parent Cabinet organization. Anderson served as the deputy
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Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall has decided to withdraw his legislative proposal seeking greater agency oversight of merger and acquisition activities between defense companies, Defense News reported Tuesday. Aaron Mehta writes Kendall made the decision
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NASA has validated 1,284 new planets from Kepler space telescope’s July 2015 catalog to post a new record as the single largest batch of confirmed planets to date. The space agency said Wednesday the new
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National Guard units in Arizona held a two-day annual training and certification course for wildfire responses on May 4 and 5. The 24-hour training course involved 16 pilots and crew chiefs certified to respond and
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The White House on Tuesday hosted a conference to discuss new initiatives in the public and private sectors to integrate resilience concepts into commercial and residential building design, standards and codes. Those efforts
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The Defense Information Systems Agency, National Security Agency and Defense Department Chief Information Officer have launched a new collaborative effort that will aim to constantly update cybersecurity architectures across the DoD Information Network infrastructure. DISA said Monday the Non-secure
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has suffered five data breach incidents of at least 10,000 records since October and plans to introduce new measures to step up network security at the agency, the
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