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UncategorizedHouse Appropriators Approve Big Cut To Air Force AEHF, Slash New Air Force One Funding
The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) approved a $140 million cut to the Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program when it passed its version of the fiscal year 2016 […]
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UncategorizedFacing Challenges, STRATCOM Hopes to Ramp Up Installation of AEHF
U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) hopes to ramp up installation of its replacement for the Milstar satellite constellation, as reliability problems of the nuclear-survivable legacy system have slowed the follow-on’s procurement […]
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UncategorizedMcCain Downplays Significance Of NASA Continuing Payments To Russia For ISS Trips
The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on June 16 downplayed the potential national security significance of NASA continuing payments to Russia to get astronauts to and from […]
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UncategorizedNASA Issues RFP For Venture Class Launch Services
NASA on June 12 issued its final request for proposals (RFP) for what the civil space agency called the smallest class of launch services it has ever procured. NASA plans […]
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UncategorizedAirbus Provides Skynet Communications to Norway
Under a four-year framework signed between Airbus and Norway’s Defense Logistic Organization (NDLO), the country’s military forces will get access to the Skynet X-band satellites for communications applications, the company […]
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UncategorizedSenate Appropriators Approve Nearly $344 Million Cut To Commercial Crew
The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) on June 11 approved 27-3 its version of a fiscal year 2016 spending bill that provides nearly $334 million less for Commercial Crew than NASA […]
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UncategorizedManTech Beefs Up Cyber Security Services With KCG Acquisition
ManTech International [MANT] on June 16 said it has acquired Knowledge Consulting Group (KCG), a small firm focused on providing cyber security services to the public and private sectors, in […]
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UncategorizedReport Finds Login Credentials For Government Agencies On Open Web
Web intelligence company Recorded Future found the possible exposure of username/password login credentials for 47 government agencies across 89 unique domains on the open web, according to a new report. […]
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UncategorizedRepublicans Want OPM Director and CIO Removed
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and 17 Republican members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama on June 29 requesting the removal of the […]
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UncategorizedDHS Official Says Cyber Threat Information Sharing Complements Technology Deployments
Ongoing deployments of technologies designed to detect and prevent intrusions of cyber threats against government networks and other systems designed to monitor for computer viruses inside these networks go hand-in-hand […]