John McNellis, formerly corporate senior vice president at L-3 Communications, has been named deputy assistant secretary for space, strategic and intelligence systems at Defense Department. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced McNellis’ appointment to the
MoreThe Government Accountability Office has urged the Defense Department to collaborate with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to address a looming gap in weather data coverage from U.S. government and international partner satellites.
MoreGen. David Goldfein, vice chief of staff at the U.S. Air Force, has said he believes the future development of combined arms depends upon a multi-domain strategy. The Air Force said Tuesday Goldfein
MoreThe Senate Armed Services Committee has approved the nomination Eric Fanning to become the next secretary of the U.S. Army, Defense News reported Thursday. Joe Gould writes the Senate panel took a voice
MoreThe Defense Threat Reduction Agency has expanded the scope of its nuclear nonproliferation program to tackle biological threats worldwide, DoD News reported Thursday. Cheryl Pellerin writes DTRA’s Cooperative Biological Engagement Program has
MoreThe U.S. General Services Administration has concluded a six-month study of the government-wide, cloud computing-focused Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to gather feedback from clients on the initiative. FedRAMP had a 340-percent increase in training enrollees and
MoreThe Office of Management and Budget has started to collect public comments on a draft policy that aims to facilitate reuse and sharing of federal custom software code across government agencies in an effort
MoreThe Senate Banking Committee on Thursday voted 14-8 to approve the nomination of Adam Szubin as undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department, Bloomberg reported Friday. Elizabeth Dexheimer writes Szubin
MoreSome federal agencies have cited a 30-day “cybersecurity sprint” launched in June 2015 to justify noncompetitive information technology contracts they have awarded, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Aliya Sternstein writes the Office of Management
MoreNASA has selected two proposals for low-Earth orbit instruments the agency plans to use in investigations of potential air pollutants and to track the development of tropical cyclones in oceans. The space agency said Thursday
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